world-citizen

01.26.06 @ 2:11 pm

Disappointed or not this is the new reality. Personally I am more worried about the comments of the EU, US and Israel and more specifically the “attitude”. Sure, as everybody knows parties who do not expect to be governments in the upcoming elections tend to have a more radical program. I am sure none at Hamas was expecting that. But, as it happened to other similar instances, e.g. Sinn Fein in Ireland, they are bound to lower their tones. And let’s not be fools, it was not the Hamas rhetoric, or the goal of destroying Israel, that got them the votes. More like corruption of the Fatah government, need for change, and possibly the Hamas-inspired infrastructure
improvement.
Let’s face it. People rarely care about high ideals. Most of the time what matters is food, schools and hospitals. AFTER you have these, and granted you do not fall victim to mindless consumerism/mass mind rape,you may get the chance to develop a taste for what’s “noble”.
And as far as the EU/US/Israel is concerned, the only reason they adopt a “conditional attitude” (as if they are naive in political games) is for misguiding their own masses and terrorizing them. “Oops, we do not cooperate with terrorists”. Do you want a list of countries under terrorist (real dictatorships) that they have wonderfully cooperated in the past when they had a good reason to? And I am not talking about the “terrorist” label these days, which has been stretched as far as it takes, to encompass pretty much anything, from resistance to radical political groups.
Anyway, good luck with the struggle.

Iman

01.27.06 @ 10:53 am

world citizen,Yes, the people being fed up and the need for change. Despite Hamas not having a clear set agenda, their rehetoric and tone will have to change. They will have to recgonize israel’s existance and they will have to work with israel.

The one thing that is very frustrating is one of the first things they did after election results were announced: replacing the Palestinian Flag with their own group’s flag. The Palestinian flag is red, black, white and green and not a solid green. And it will never be a solid green!