This is the Palestinian version of Operation Chaos. By promoting democratic elections in Palestine, we managed to get the Palestinians to attack each other rather than the Israelis. Brilliant!
More important it showed how the Palis no longer deserve the world’s sympathy. They were givened back Gaza, givened a chance to exercise free elections, and they took the opportunity and flushed it down the toilet. I know alot of my idealistic friends (neocon crusaders, and liberal human rightists) who are now re assessing their premise of the nature of human beings in this world outside of the US. I always told them, their outlook is half right, FREEDOM IS UNIVERSAL, BUT DEMOCRACY IS NOT. Everybody desires freedom because it gives them power to do things, but democracy is not because it requires an individual to share power with people he may not agree with.