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Palestine and the politics of wishful thinking
I'll be the someone to explain it: Hamas refuses to recognize Israel (as Israel refuses to recognize the rights, the land, the right of return of the Palestinians) and Hamas is an "Islamist" organization. It has naturally become more and more "Islamist" as it has been isolated by the US and the "international community," to the tune of receiving no money for since the elections. Yes, there was a democratic election and Hamas won, by a much larger majority than Mahmoud Abbas won his presidency of the Palestinian National Authority, which was a separate vote. But the U.S. and the world community were (a) surprised (gee, we didn't know it would turn out like, that is not what our democratization is about) and (b) instantly decided to turn that election over. When U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was there and met with Abbas months ago, she told him to get rid of Hamas and create an emergency government. This I saw on one single airing of a live CNN interview with an Abbas aide called Eduard Abbington (the transcript of which I have somewhere). Abbas was an aide of Arafat, and Fatah was Arafat's organization, which used to be the ones we called terrorists before we decided that it is now Hamas who are the terrorists. It's a sliver of the Bush administration's "politics of wishful thinking". Abbas is reputed to be incredibly corrupt, and there can be no question that the U.S. is plying him with money to keep him from deserting them, since he is walking a really thin line. Hardly any Palestinians are keen on talks with Israel, that do not have the end of the occupation and leaving the settlements as their goal, and the Bush Olmert "road map" does not even mention the occupation. The controls on the Palestinians, in Gaza and in the West Bank, are beyond anything moral or legal for a democracy: there are roadblocks, checkpoints (people wait for hours to go to school, to a doctor, to visit their mother in the next village, and then they might not be let through, the checkpoint simply closes), constant incursions, theft of water, theft of land, dirt roads for them, new roads that are "Jewish only" for the settlers (license plates tell who is who An Islamic state is supposed to be the worst thing that can happen, for America. A Jewish apartheid state is apparently good for America. It makes me so sad and so furious I can't even go on, but you get the picture. I will say one more thing: Israel is probably the most corrupt "democracy" in the Western world A friend of mine wrote her PhD thesis in criminology about that, turned it in on the day Ariel Sharon had his stroke the police had found proof that he had taken $3 million in bribes... The "outgoing" President Moshe Katzav has been accused by 8 (that's eight) women of rape and sexual abuse, but he was allowed to take a leave of absence, and will be able to disappear quietly. I doubt that the U.S. press even mentioned it. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is accused of taking money too, but that is also being swept under the carpet. The American media, with all the fear of being "anti-Semitic" is not doing Israel or the Jewish people any favor by covering up all this stuff, which only encourages the crooks running the Israeli government, and allows them to think they can do whatever they want.
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