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Middle East Democracy - The Hamas Factor |
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Mar 02, 2006 at 12:00 AM |
By Ramzy Baroud
[Counterpunch, March 2, 2006] “...It goes without saying that Palestinians, and those who have genuinely supported their democratic insurgency, have many reasons to be proud. Evidently, those who used democracy as a decoy to justify their grievous foreign policies or to defend their unwarranted military occupation are now being forced into an unpleasant era of ‘soul searching’ - as proposed by the Financial Times.
Hamas, not knowingly, perhaps, has abruptly deprived Washington of its last card in a Middle East foreign policy game, which was already in tatters. Delivering democracy was - until Hamas‘ political rise - Washington‘s strongest, albeit murkiest pretext to justify its military presence in the Middle East...”
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