Robert Fisk 5

De expansionistische politiek van de democratische staat Israel en de terreur van de bezetting hebben Hamas aan de macht gebracht. Zo werkt een democratie. De ene democratie sanctioneert het veroveren van andermans land, de andere democratie verzet zich daar tegen, uiteindelijk met wapens. Dat is allemaal niet wonderlijk. Het enige wonderlijke is dat Westerse opiniemakers zich daarover verwonderen. Maar dit terzijde. De vraag is: hoe nu verder? Information Clearing House heeft een artikel uit de Independent van Robert Fisk overgenomen. De Midden-Oosten correspondent schrijft: 'The problem with democracy. And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power. -- -- Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn't we award this to those Algerians in 1990? And didn't they reward us with that nice gift of an Islamist government - and then they so benevolently cancelled the second round of elections? Thank goodness for that!True, the Afghans elected a round of representatives, albeit that they included some warlords and murderers. But then the Iraqis last year elected the Dawa party to power in Baghdad, which was responsible - let us not speak this in Washington - for most of the kidnappings of Westerners in Beirut in the 1980s, the car bombing of the (late) Emir and the US and French embassies in Kuwait.And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power. They were supposed to have given their support to the friendly, pro-Western, corrupt, absolutely pro-American Fatah, which had promised to "control" them, rather than to Hamas, which said they would represent them. And, bingo, they have chosen the wrong party again.Result: 76 out of 132 seats. That just about does it. God damn that democracy. What are we to do with people who don't vote the way they should?' Lees verder:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11694.htm