Rick Richman is earning my highest honor today, for these words:
Elections are tough to organize when there are people who are running against each other. The good news, however, is that once you solve the internal problems with a unified list, it is relatively easy to re-schedule the election, since there will be only one party in it. So this is probably simply a bump in the road to the vibrant democracy a Palestinian state would bring to the Middle East (along with peace), as Western-backed Mahmoud Abbas enters the 66th month of his 48-month term.
Well done, Rick. Well done.
I think Inigo Montoya needs to have a talk with the PA.
“You keep using that word, Democracy. I do not think it means what you think it means. “
Thank you, Meryl. The serious point I was trying to raise, and that Eric J also focuses on, is why there is an assumption that a Palestinian state, even if run by Fatah instead of Hamas, would be a democracy, and why it is assumed that such a state would lead to peace, as opposed to simply moving the parties into different positions for the next war.