Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Destablizing Democratically-Electing Governments

As you grow older you realize that sometimes what seems to be a choice is really not a choice. It will soon become apparent to Palestinians in Israel that they really had no choice in their recent democratic elections. Even though they democratically elected the Hamas party, it is not the party the United States or the Israelis wanted so now the two will force the people to vote again until they "get it right" and re-elect the party the US prefers - Fatah. That is, the US and Israel are openly discussing how they will destabilize the democratically elected Hamas government until the Palestinians vote for the Fatah party, the party backed by the USA and the Israelis.

Here's more........

For sure, feelings are mized about this. On one side, people are told they must practice democracy as a form of government and have democratic elections where the poeple elect who they want; on the other hand it is irrelevant because if a powerful government like the USA doesn't like who the people elect because it does not jibe with previous plans, they will just destroy it. Hmmm seems that accusations of this have been in the air for decades, coming from Central and South America - although the destabilizations and coups have been more covert.

How will student textbooks tell of this Hamas situation in years to come?

Is it not clear, or is it irrelevant that starving the Hamas government of funds starves, quite literally, the alreayd starving Palestinians - starves humans so they have no food and even worse physical conditions than they alredy have? Perhaps some of them can just move from theor cloth and tin shack to a cave.....

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