Henry Imler January 27th, 2006

Palestinian Democracy and the New Iranian Annex

Read all of it, here are some exerpts:

The electoral victory handed to Hamas by the Palestinian
voters will serve to isolate the Palestinian Territories from the West
and its resources while likely transforming it into a de facto annex of
the Islamic Republic of Iran. Without US and (potentially) European
fiscal support, effectively amounting to cash donations, a rapid
domestic collapse of a resource-anemic Hamas-run Palestinian Authority
can only be averted (or forestalled) by an influx of funding from
another source.

and…

Hamas may ultimately be rejected as ineffective by the
Palestinian people, but will it come to pass before Hamas has sparked
open warfare with Israel, which, given Hamas’ new-found position of
governance, would bring even more destruction to the Palestinian
Territories in the form of an Israeli offensive with a ferocity as of
yet unseen by the Palestinians?

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