Elie Wiesel on the Hamas Victory
I loved this quote, it summed it all up for me...
"Hamas won," said Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. "Hamas is surely not a democratic movement. Its ideas are surely not humanistic ideas. "What do we do now?"
I can see the previews: "Coming soon to a video store near you; When Democracy goes bad?"
It's almost like the Bush administration had the Middle-East right where it wanted it one day and the next the Palestinains are like "try and get out of that one"
Of course electing Hamas was probably the stupidest move the Palestinian people could make, I mean "Hello!!! You have the U.S. on your side, you're on the verge of statehood and you choose to elect the wacko party, please help me underdstand that one.
posted by Barrie at 15:10
2 Comments:
I think it's great. Because what democracy is after all is representative gov't. So now people can't say, it's just a few bad apples ruining what is truly a peaceful place. That is right out the window. Their gov't represents the majority of Palestinians. Let's see how they choose respond, I have a hunch how they will...but it will be interesting. Meanwhile Iran makes no secret about their desire to whipe Israel off the face of the earth and with them ignoring the UN(who doesn't now a days) on the nukes...I'm sure Isreal is feeling, uhhh, a little nervous.
Fri Jan 27, 06:41:00 PM GMT
Good point Kyle, it does demonstrate the severity of the issue. If I were an Israeli I might be checking out house prices in Florida that's for sure.
Sat Jan 28, 12:56:00 AM GMT
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