Wednesday, September 27, 2006

BRING BACK THE CROOKS!

Time for a Third Party (BOTW-WSJ)
Earlier this year the Palestinian Arabs elected Hamas to the Palestinian Authority Parliament, and Ha'aretz reports that isn't working out so well for them:

Slogans shouted at rallies sound better when they rhyme. "Not Ismail, not Haniyeh, we want back the government of haramiyeh." Haramiyeh means thieves, and the protesters in Ramallah--Palestinian Authority workers who have not received their salaries for the last seven months--shouted what can be heard in conversations in the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Hamas may be clean, but the Fatah thieves are preferable. After all, the reasoning goes, when Fatah was in power, our salaries were assured.

Seems to us the Palestinians could use a third party--one that would oppose terrorism and advocate peace with Israel, which would be the surest way of improving the Palestinian economy and even securing an independent state. Is there a Palestinian pol brave enough to stand for the interests of his people rather than hatred of the Jews?

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