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Thread #117493 Message #2565113
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
12-Feb-09 - 01:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Israel Moves in.
Subject: RE: BS: Israel Moves in.
Nickhere:
Hamas did indeed win the Gaza election. Jimmy Carter says it was fair, and Jimmie Carter is an honorable man. People have noted that Adolf Hitler was the fairly elected Chancellor of Germany...he wasn't. His Nazi Party fomented violence and rioting such that no non-Nazi government could succeed. He was asked, as a last resort, by von Hindenbrg in hopes to bring some 'normalcy' to Germany. I see some parallels, even if the honorable Carter doesn't.
But even allowing that the elections were 100% uncoercive and fair, Hamas subsequently has made extremely poor choices vis-a-vis Israel, vis-a-vis investing as between guns and butter, and vis-a-vis Fatah/PA.
Their insistant rocketing of Israel has been, probably, the largest single factor in the rightward turn of the Israeli elections of the other day. Even Egypt is acting against Hamas.