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Palestine: A Democracy Under Siege
By Ali Al-Hail
Al-Jazeerah, May 21, 2006
Since the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, was elected by the Palestinian electorate earlier this year, this nascent democracy has ever since been beleaguered and besieged. It’s not Hamas, but rather the democracy which brought Hamas to rule, has been under siege.
Almost entirely, without a single possible exception all the presumed ‘democratic’ states had ironically, opposed it. The very democracy that their very own observers, most notably former President Carter, testified its rightfulness and cleanliness.
Even the Palestinian ‘Brutuses’, let alone the Arab ‘Brutuses’ from within had sadly, joined the international disgraceful chorus. The ‘Western democracies’ of our human world have apparently, manipulated the Palestinian ‘Brutuses’. Hilariously enough the Arab ‘Brutus’, Jordan, the backyard of the Palestinian lands had shamefully, participated in stabbing the Palestinian democracy.
All of a sudden apparently, under instructions of their ‘keepers’ went public and announced that, Hamas smuggled weapons into Jordan to destabilize the country!
Had the for long manipulated regime in Jordan thought patriotically, would have realized that, they had attacked the very democracy (not the very Hamas), they themselves have been striving to install. Alas, the regime had slipped over the banana skin that, their ‘keepers’ of the ‘Banana Republic’ had put under their feet.
This democracy has, undoubtedly, showed the World the real face of ‘Western democracies’. Features of this face can be summed up in one word, which is hypocrisy.
Retrospectively, when Ariel Sharon won the Israeli vote by the end of 2000, the ‘Western democracies’ hailed his election. Though within Israel itself, Sharon is still notoriously perceived as the prime factor behind the Sabra and Shatila massacre of September 16, 1982. The haunted ‘Western democracies’ by Machiavellian deceits, nonetheless, turned a blind eye and dough ear to Sharon’s bloody history.
Arab and Muslim masses, to whom the Bush, Blair and the E.U.’s administrations, have desperately been since 9/11 attempting to sell them their style of ‘democracy’, have been raising questions about the credibility of such ‘democracy marketing’.
Professor, Dr. Ali Al-Hail, Professor of Mass Communication, Twice Fulbright Award Winner, International Fulbright Visiting Scholar, and Board Member of AUSACE ASC, IABD, NEBAA, BEA, IMDA and EAJMC pdaah90@hotmail.com
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| The Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid Wall built inside the Palestinian territories, here separating Abu Dis from occupied East Jerusalem. (IPC, 7/4/04). | ||
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03). |