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How George W. Bush Helped Hamas Come to Power (slate.com)

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In Bush’s naïveté about the magic of elections, he ignored a crucial point about democracy.

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[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah but the solution is not to have the democracy germany had before then. I mean in both cases its really just basically a coup but in the case of palestine it happened realy fast. Granted allowing hamas to run as an armed group was likely a mistake. They should have had to do the irish thing were there is the seperate political wing and they keep enough distance to not sully the legitimate political group.

[–] btaf45@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Granted allowing hamas to run as an armed group was likely a mistake.

Agreed. Hamas should not have been allowed to run in the election.

I mean in both cases its really just basically a coup but in the case of palestine it happened realy fast.

Practically every 3rd world country went thru this in decolonialization. It was called "one man, one vote, one time".