Posted on 01/26/2006 11:34:46 AM PST by Lejes Rimul
JERUSALEM – The Islamic group Hamas staged a stunning upset of the ruling Fatah faction in Palestinian parliamentary polls Wednesday, winning a solid outright majority of the total 132 seats and making the strongest ever showing of an Islamist movement in the Arab world.
With such a decisive win, Hamas is unlikely to need a coalition partner, sidelining the Palestine Liberation Organization's Fatah Party and promising to redefine the troubled Middle East peace process.
Hamas, which rejected the 1993 Oslo Accords that founded the Palestinian Authority (PA), was ebullient over its mandate, but said it would not change its fundamental stance: It will not disarm its military wing and will not revise its charter calling for Israel's destruction.
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This is too mind baffling for me to comprehend. The Palestinian people seem to be quite frankly, dumb people.
This will get all of the U.S. and European hand wringers off the fence and make them choose between Isreal and the Palestinians. Time to make a choice. Terror or peace.
Proof positive that the Palestinian people support their leaders' anti-Israel extremism. I will no longer feel any sympathy for the citizens caught up in the fighting--they've asked for it.
The reality is the very ideas of freedom and self-worth for individuals throughout the ME is a very new concept. Both have for far too long been denied the citizens of this region of the World
Those two values are our biggest allies in the GWOT (now and goint into the future). That doesn't mean we will always agree with whom is elected....nor does it mean we might not have conflict with those put into office.
But the reality is over time those values of freedom and self-worth will continue to take root and grow....and from that real progress will take place. A new ME will emerge over time. It is already emerging to anyone who doesn't have blinders on.
In the long run those such as Hamas will not be freely elected. Not as the roots of self-worth and the true notion of freedom begin to spread (as they already are without question throughout the streets of Iraq, Stan and other locations in the ME).
The idea isn't to fight and defeat each and everyone of these evil organizations via only the military route. It is also to defeat them among their own people.
The very existence of organizations like Hamas, al Qeade, Saddam and even the Mullah's within Iran....they exist because the values of freedom and self-worth DON'T within their Countries.
I don't really see the big deal here. It's not like it was Hamas vs. The Christian Democrats.
It was one set of thugish murdering slimeballs against another. The one on the outs was caught with their hand in the till too many times and the thugish murdering slimeball majority of the country demanded new thugish murdering slimeballs as leaders.
Change?
I don't see no freaking change.
They're Moos. QED.
You get to be a Moo if you're too dumb even for Scientology.
In other words, Israel has to take back the land they just gave up? I can already see the headlines about Israel being the aggressor bully, and all kinds of useless U.N. reprimands. This is a net loss for Israel because the world will continue to amazingly paint Israel as the villain.
Given what's happened to them under Fatah, I'm not really surprised that they went over to the terrorists.
They see the problems, but they've chosen a cure that's worse than the illness.
What a moron! I say let them run out of money and let them starve!
This election result proves two things: 1) Democracy can be a two-edged sword, 2) the Palestinians are as stupid as they are vicious. They don't deserve either a state or our taxpayers' dollars.
Target richer environment.......
No, they know what they want: Israel's death. Hamas is an excellent vote if you have this desire.
They will be sealing there own destruction in the process. If they want statehood, this will not help them.
This should make it much easier for Israel to kill the Hamas leaders: just blow up all the Palestinian government buildings.
It will also give countries like Iran more reason to go after Israel.
Not really.
Once and for all, this establishes that those people dancing in the streets in the West Bank and Gaza after 9/11 are the real face of the Palestinians. The mothers that praise their children for the suicide bombings they commit are the trues spokesmen for the Palestinian people.
Sweep them all into the sea and start over.
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