'Get the message?
Protesters in Lebanon have a simple message for Britain and the US: you cannot expect Arab democracies to operate on western terms.'
'When the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas (another western and Israeli favourite), called for early elections last week, Tony Blair himself was in the West Bank to support the decision despite the fact that early elections were not only unconstitutional but had come after months during which the Palestinians had been literally starved as the US and Israel imposed an embargo on all funding to the Hamas government. Most Palestinians have not been paid for months and many are facing extreme economic hardships. Why? Because the Palestinian people had elected members from a group deemed "terrorist" by western standards. In the Arab world where I live, we usually refer to both Hamas and Hizbullah as "national liberation movements".'
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/salam_almahadin/2007/01/arab_banana_republics.html
I keep reading the same arguments, arguments that never seem to be rebutted anywhere. '...Most Palestinians have not been paid for months and many are facing extreme economic hardships. Why?' Because they don't make anything, they don't build anything, they don't create businesses, and therefore every penny they get is handouts from daddy. Then later, they elect a government of islamo-supremacist murderers masqerading as a political party, because their politics is shambolic and is a loose mix of 99% bullshit, ludicrous mis-statements of fact, lies, ancient grievances and self-deceptions and 1% religious nuttery. Weirdly, daddy doesn't understand or like the new pseudo-government, and cuts off the allowance.
And in the real world where I live, I call that fair enough. Oh and by the way, there is no qualitative difference between a Western Democracy and a democracy.
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