[A-List] Palestinian Elections

[Jim Craven <omahkohkiaayo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to all the accounts of the western bourgeois media, plus from even the Carter Center, the Palestinian elections were entirely free of what U.S. elections have never been free of: a) intimidation at polling places; b) phony purge lists of eligible voters illegally declared ineligible; c) stuffing ballot boxes; d) throwing out votes and voter registrations into trash disposal; e) election results vitiated by a conflict-of-interest-infested and outright corrupt Supreme Court; f) polling places understaffed and undercapitalized (deliberately) to force long lines, extensive waiting and other deterrents to vote in certain areas; g) outright buying of votes; h) extensive and costly court challenges designed to overhwelm election results with costly litigation; i) appointments of partisan and conflict-of-interest-carrying "officials" to certify and legitimate corrupt electoral practices and their outcomes;
j) inserting "poison pills" into some voter registration drives in order to taint all results and registrations of those drives; k)...  (see Andrew Gumble, "Steal this Vote" for more elaboration on all U.S. elections not just the most recent)

So since Hamas has more credibility and a solid "mandate" and "legitimacy" in bourgeois democratic terms (were the elections free and fair never mind how the menu of choice was selected and presented?) perhaps should refuse to deal with the Bush Administration in that it is not the "legitimate" government of the U.S. in terms of those basic democratic principles the U.S. government says it is so fond of spreading throught the world. They could say, for example, that there is more than enough preliminary evidence to conclude that the whole Bush Administration is illegal and illegitimate and is the result of a coup d'etat and phony elections (two) that violate the most basic principles and requirements of basic "democracy" (a view shared by over 50% of the population according to polls) and thus is not the legitimate government of the U.S. with which Hamas can or will negotiate.

Hamas could also argue that they will not negotiate with the U.S. until the U.S government agrees to cease and desist all international terrorism (defined as aggressive--not defensive--violence designed to inflict and/or that will highly likely inflict violence on non-combatants), illegal "pre-emptive war"[read waging aggressive wars], disarm Israel, eliminate all nuclear weapons held by Israel and the U.S. and agree to be bound by all laws and principles to which arrogates and purports to hold others.

Jim C


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