>>>Like all seismic events, this is both shocking and unsurprising. Thoughts?
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>>Since the majority of the Palestinians have given their vote to Hamas, it is now acceptible to state that the Palestinians are terrorists and evil people.
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>I don't know about that.
>Apparently the people were fed up with corruption, nepotism and such.
So, they thought, let's give our vote this time to terrorists, instead of to Abbas.
>Apparently the people have gotten a whole lot more from Hamas' social progrmas than they ever got out of Fatah.
So, they thought, let's give our vote to them, despite the fact that they are terrorists also.
>Apparently, given the choice between continued corruption or people who have been very helpful, they chose the helpful. Doesn't seem unusual to me.
Not unusual indeed. Hitler was also very helpful to the poor when he rose to power.
>Seems the only thing Fatah had going for it was that it doesn't have an (official) terrorist sub-group so others could "deal" with them. Seems the people felt that wasn't a good enough reason to have them run the place yet again.
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>That said, I agree fully that no country should deal with the new leadership the way things are now.
And we must make that very clear to them also.
Groet,
Peter de Valença
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