Sunday, January 9, 2011
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
The Tragedy of Palestinian Democracy - '...When the U.S. endorsed a Palestinian state in 2002, the endorsement was conditional: it depended on the Palestinians first building "a practicing democracy." Nine years later, half the putative state is a terrorist enclave functioning as an Iranian proxy; the other half is a Potemkin democracy unable even to stage elections. The tragedy of Palestinian democracy is that the obstacle to a Palestinian state turned out to be the Palestinians themselves.'
