Yesterday, Paelestinians elected the terrorist group Hamas to a majority of the seats in their Parliament. This creates a problem.
Having just seen the Canadian Liberal party defeated on Monday, it is understandable that an electorate would want to turf out a tired, ineffective and corrupt group of self serving politicians. All the analysis indicates that this is what was behind the electoral choice made yesterday by the Palestinians.
Al Fatah was, and is, the corrupt spawn of the corrupt Yasser Arafat. While it can be said that it led Palestinians to its quasi-statehood, it is equally true that it prevented the establishment of a true state, and impoverished its subjects for the benefit of the kleptocrats that ran the Palestinian Authority. The elections held yesterday were the first in ten years and for good reason: Al Fatah is not democratic and they feared the electorate. They were, and are, nothing more than a glorified protection outfit.
But they were the devil we knew.
They lost, and now the Middle East and the world have to deal with Hamas.
According to all the public relations spin, they are (financially speaking) uncorrupt. They run schools and hospitals efficiently and honestly and they operate the only social welfare programmes that exist in Gaza for the Palestinians (of course Fatah couldn't afford to set up such programmes - not if they wanted to fill their Swiss bank accounts).
If that was the whole story...great. Unfortunately, it is only a piece, and a spun piece at that.
Hamas is a fundamentalist Islamist terrorist organization. They may be financially incorruptible but, if Islam is the religion of peace and love that we are told it is, they have corrupted the teachings of one of the world's great religions in furtherance of hate filled anti-Semitism. They may run schools, but their schools are really Islamist indoctrination centres. They may provide welfare, but there are strings attached. Recipients include the families of those whom they send with bombs strapped to their bodies to blow up Israeli kids.
A lot of the commentary out today says that now that Hamas is in power, they will become more practical in their views. One Israeli said that power moderates.
The Renaissance Man hopes so, but has doubts. The doubts are based on an assessment of human nature, and it is this: people who can develop bomb packs, strap them to the bodies of young people and dispatch them to vaporize themselves in the middle of groups of unarmed civilians think differently than normal people. They are pathological, and sociopathic. They lack a normal human conscience. They view the world through a narrow focussed lens and experience life with cretinous, crabbed black souls.
They who will murder without a twinge of conscience will lie.
Hamas may be another disaster for the people of Palestine, but also for everyone else in the Middle East. If so, they will be another self inflicted disaster for the Palestinians because they knew, and know, exactly what Hamas is, and they voted for it in that knowledge. They did not make a choice between the devil they knew and the devil they didn't...they chose between two devils.
And chose the worst.
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