Good points. What about foreigners choosing your leaders?That's the way Democracy works. .1/2 the folks waste their votes and are pissed off for 4 or 6 years. When you want STATEHOOD and self-determination -- you need leadership to take you there. Arab leadership is typically NOT about democracy -- but about power and control, restraining the internal killing and distribution of wealth.
They may NEED a strongman leader -- but one that has long term goals and short patience for dissidents.
OR --- it may need to be done FOR THEM.. I suspect the latter is the more likely outcome.. THEN they can get picky about their politics..
Not buying any excuses for the plight of Palestinians. IF a construct of statehood needs to be FORCED on them temporarily -- it should be the NEIGHBORHOOD that does that. Not international posers with a Nobel Prize on their minds..
Are you implying that this story is false?
Rose would not DETAIL his sources.. He only said they were Palestinian sources. But it doesn't matter.. There was no US sponsored coup.. No removal of Hamas or the "unity govt".. NOTHING OF THE SORT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.. So it's irrelevant speculation... From a FAR left source who was mortal enemies with the Bush Admin to begin with. A lot of partisan whining.. BILL F-ing CLINTON would have taken the same approach if Hamas suddenly decided to become politically active in Palestine..
Did we work with Fatah? You bet your ass we did... They were a responsible party to peace discussions,. PREFERRING Fatah and the govt that LED to the turnover of Gaza --- is FAR preferable than forcing an "OUTSIDE" solution on Palestinians who constantly tear down ANY progress towards responsible statehood.
There was no US sponsored coup.. No removal of Hamas or the "unity govt".. NOTHING OF THE SORT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
Of course you have nothing to back up what you say.
If you don't like that source, how about one from the CBC in Canada?
You're getting a little strident with theses conspiracy theories. Your worldview within which the Great Satan and Israel are responsible for all the ills of Islamist society are not credible.
Hamas and Fatah are two competing versions of Islamist ideology and both had stakes in the billions of dollars of welfare money that is showered on the Arabs-Moslems occupying the West Bank and Gaza. The civil war that they fought was waged for control of fabulous wealth.