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Ramzy Baroud of Palestine Chronicle points out the intriguing ramifications of the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections. This article was linked in a discussion on The Angry Arab blog about how the Nation Magazine has maintained a pretty much Zionist perspective on the Israeli/Palestine situation, e.g., using Israeli or Jewish pundits to comment on the Palestinian elections, etc.
But the Bush administration debacle, in my opinion, transcends the geographic boundaries of the Israel-Palestinian conflict to the much more, far-reaching political and strategic setting in the entire Middle East, to its quandary with 'political Islam' and the disgruntled, 'rascal multitudes' - to borrow a Chomsky term -- of the Arab and Muslim world; so fractious and so eager to take charge of its own destiny - perhaps through the ballot box.
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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