The NY Times quotes this interesting and perceptive comment from a Palestinian political scientist about what the future might hold for both Hamas and Fatah:
Hisham Ahmed, a political scientist at Birzeit University who has written books about Hamas, called the vote “an historic moment in every sense,” but he emphasized that “these results [...]
Yesterday, I wrote my own analysis of Hamas’ stunning victory in yesterday’s Palestinian legislative elections. Tonight, I was listening to Open Source Media’s coverage of the elections, Hamas 2.0, which featured Gazan blogger Laila El-Haddad, author of Raising Yousuf: Diary of a Mother Under Occupation. It made me hit my head and realize [...]
Read full post...The big Mideast news tonight is that the Palestinian people have conducted one of the most free, open and democratic elections in the entire Arab world. Palestinians made history. A million of them decided…well, we’re not really sure what they decided. But after hours of uncertainty in which a narrow Fatah victory [...]
Read full post...Today, we have the odd spectacle of the Israeli government announcing it will not permit Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem to participate in the upcoming elections as long as Hamas participates. One thing I find horribly ironic about all this is that Israel prides itself on being one of the few Mideast democracies. [...]
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