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Sunday, February 26, 2006

Hamas Victory Putting Lie to US "Democracy" Claims

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.

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