DEMOCRACY IN MID-EAST BRINGS ISRAEL HATRED

AS DOES DICTATORSHIP, AS DOES ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT. MAYBE IT'S NOT THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT THAT MATTERS. MAYBE IT'S THE "CULTURE" OR RELIGION.

Egyptian Democracy Activists Demand End to Peace Treaty with Israel - Hamza Hendawi
Egypt's best-known democracy movement has switched causes and is now focused on demanding an end to the country's peace treaty with Israel. The Kifaya movement has launched a campaign to collect one million signatures on a petition calling for the annulment of Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel. 100,000 signatures have been collected so far, said Kifaya spokesman George Ishaq.

"One of the costs of pressing for democracy in the Middle East is the fact that most democratically based Arab parties...will be hostile to Israel," said Edward S. Walker, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel and now with the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based think tank. (AP/Washington Post)