Aylee -> RE: Palestine gets UN observer status. (12/7/2012 4:43:17 AM)
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If they were not qualified to participate, why were they allowed to? Or were they only allowed to participate because it was thought they would lose? You seem to suggest the elections under the Oslo agreement were no better than elections in Belarus, never mind Russia or Iran. The truth is, without Hamas participation the elections would have no credibility and would have been boycotted by the majority of the Palestinians. This is another case of the west and the USA in particular, pontificating about democracy but hates the idea of democracy that doesn't endorse western or US and its allies interests. However, Hamas was allowed to participate and they won the election so you are 100% WRONG! I have found over posting here for some time that DomKen's real problem with Hamas is that Hamas often uses the exact same tactics and strategies that Irgun, Hagannah and other such as the Lehi (Nazi collaborators BTW) used in the period up to 1949 against both the British and the indigenous people. After Israeli Independence, these groups became the Israeli Defence Forces. As such it's far too close to the bone for him to have any kind of objective understanding or perspective. Such people are best left to their crocodile tears. If anyone is unable to see the 'Palestinian terrorism' is caused by the Israeli policies of dispossession, occupation, apartheid and military rule, then they are ignorant or blind to the facts. Isn't a military occupation terrorism on grand scale - the brutal military subjugation of an entire people, together with, in this particular instance, the theft of their homeland? By any standard that qualifies as rule by terror. Sadly the death stats confirm this. Then why won't Jordan or Syria or Egypt accept these refugees? They are only useful to the Arab leadership where they are now. I am willing to bet serious money that, if Israel announces in full seriousness that they are going to 'go Tamerlane' on Gaza's population, the Arab world will maybe accept a few thousand token refugees. The rest will be deliberately left to be butchered. No, Israel pretty much HAS to deal with Gaza's population in place. And I doubt that anything less than a complete military occupation, with total takeover of everything: governance, policing, municipal services, healthcare, education - and a rather brutal suppression of any attempts at resistance, will ever solve this problem.
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