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Middle East democracy, the Hamas factor
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Arab American News
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March 10, 2006
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- Baroud, Ramzy
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Baroud, Ramzy
Arab American News
03-10-2006
There is a degree of surrealism in all of this. Hamas has presented its
choice for Prime Minister to President Mahmoud Abbas, as the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine says it has agreed in principle to join a
Hamas-led government.
In the Arab world, such political transformations (that of Islamists and
Socialists working together to create a transparent and democratic
Parliament) is only possible in political satire, not as an attainable and
healthy political process. But Palestinians - as the Hamas Parliamentary
victory sweep and the smooth transition of power have shown - are proving
to be quite exceptional in this regard.
It goes without ...