Here’s a memo to American politicians. Supporting democracy in other nations and occupied territories means not caring who wins those elections. When you try to influence foreign elections, generally speaking, you are not supporting democracy. Also, any idiot could have told you both that Hamas would hand Fatah its ass in Palestine and that moderates would win the election in Pakistan.
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The Nakba – All the Israeli settlement should be given to the Palestinians as payment for sixty years of illegal occupation.
I just posted on Oui’s diary so I had the html for this link copied. So we set up Fatah in order to torture the living hell out of 1.5 million Gazans. Why am I not surprised?
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As head of the Gazan PSS, Dahlan was responsible for restraining those Palestinian militants, specifically Hamas, who rejected the Oslo process and hoped to sabotage a negotiated settlement through strategically-timed attacks on Israeli targets. Dahlan is believed to have drawn up a plan for containing Hamas, in a meeting in Rome in January 1994 with senior IDF and Shin Bet officials, and until 2001 he met regularly with Israeli (and U.S.) defense officials to coordinate security issues.
In 1995, following a spate of Hamas suicide attacks on Israeli buses, intended to push the Israeli electorate to the Right and away from the Oslo-friendly Labour government of Shimon Peres, Dahlan cracked down hard on Hamas’ infrastructure. On orders from Arafat, Dahlan disarmed and jailed about 2,000 known Hamas members, shaved them of their beards (and allegedly tortured some).
His police also raided and closed Islamic charities, schools and mosques. Israel Hasson, deputy head of Shin Bet and former Israeli negotiator, assessed that the PA’s 1996 actions against Hamas were extremely effective, and Uri Savir, former director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry and current head of the Peres Centre for Peace recalled that, “After the series of bombings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in 1996, Dahlan was very effective in fighting Hamas and its infrastructure.”
Where in the world is Fatah’s strongman Dahlan? | Jerusalem Post
● How Hamas turned on Palestine’s ‘traitors’
● Israel to let Presidential Guard train near West Bank city of Jericho | Force 17
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/03/01/politics/fromtheroad/entry3896372.shtml
The Bipartisan Conspiracy between McCain and Clinton is nurtured by none other than the notorious traitor to the Democratic Party, Joe Lieberman, who is cozy with both.
The corollary to your post is that the minute anyone from the region becomes identified as a US sympathizer, he is politically non grata to the local population.This is why the entire Latin American Continent now shuns any politician that is regarded as a running dog of Yanqui Imperialism.