The People Have Chosen

The people of any given area can be defined by the way they vote. For instance, New York City is a liberal city because the tendency here is to vote for liberal candidates. This does not mean that every person in New York is a liberal, but if more than 50% of the voters are voting liberal then that area is considered a liberal area. The same logic applies to every area in the world.

I raise this point today because of the way the Palestinians voted. The Hamas terror organization has won the most seats in the parliament, about twice as much as the Fatah organization (who are also terrorists). The difference between these two groups is not so much in their actions, but mostly in their words. They both terrorize the Israeli population, openly or discreetly. However, Fatah says they want peace and that Israel has the right to exist in certain areas, etc. On the other hand, Hamas wants Israel to be destroyed and all its citizens killed.

It is very disturbing to know that a majority of the Palestinian population agrees with them. Is this who Israel has as a "partner for peace?" They are hoodlums who are only interested in the destruction of Israel! What's worse is that most Israelis don't seem to realize what's going on. They said that if they can't speak with Hamas then they'll just have to do unilateral actions - such as the disengagement/expulsion of Jews from their homeland. But these actions strengthen Hamas, according to political leaders on both sides of the Israeli political spectrum.

When the Likud party leader, Benjamin Netanyahu said that the victory Hamas had in the polls was a direct result of the disengagement/expulsion of Jews from Gaza this summer, one might have thought that he has finally realized the truth. But unfortunately he hasn't. Another Jewish community was supposed to be demolished today and when many cabinet ministers signed a petition for acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to hold off on the destruction, Netanyahu refused to sign! To me that sounds like hypocrisy, and as long as the Israelis don't get rid of that hypocrisy Hamas will continue to be successful, because Israel is being destroyed by the Israeli government.