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Hi JMan:
I actually think there might be another reason. I don't care what the election results may have been because I don't see how you can have real democracy when the political parties each have an army that is currently shooting at their political opponents. So one possible reason for the Hamas victory is that they were a little better at intimidating the voting population then their political opponents. What are your thoughts?
Best wishes,
Mason
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It shouldn't be overlooked that Hamas does charity work. It didn't start as an armed organization, and is not exclusively an armed organization. I don't mean to imply that they are a benign organization. They aren't. However the situation in palestine isn't one were hamas sprung out of nowhere with a bunch on guns and forced people to vote for them a la some right wing central american junta backed by the CIA.
Hamas has existed for a while, and they are going to be there to stay. The only question is: in what form? Will their cease fires be respected by Israel and the united states? My personal hope is that a secular leftist political organization smashes the power of Hamas from within palestine.
People forget that in the first intifada, secular leftist methods of struggle such as strikes and occasional armed attacks on soldiers were dominant. Terrorism against the Israeli public was an extreme rarity. I wish someone would put me in charge over there. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
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