This Ongoing War..
02 November '12..
Those of us who live in countries where freedom of opinion, of worship, of political viewpoint, and the right to express ourselves as we wish are core values, tend to lose sight of what life is like where those values don't exist. In the towns ruled by the Palestinian Authority, for instance.
They held elections of a sort there two weeks ago. As the Palestinian Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh writes ["Palestinian Elections: Which Fatah Won?"], the Fatah party of President Mahmoud Abbas won a majority of seats.
To understand, let's carefully define some terms. Like "president", "Fatah", "elections" and "won".
These municipal elections, held in 93 municipal and village councils across the PA's fiefdom (historically called Judea and Samaria) but not for the so-called Palestinian parliament, were the first voting opportunity in the PA-controlled region in more than six years.
They were boycotted by the opposition, meaning the Islamist terror group Hamas. However there was a different sort of opposition, and they did well. As Abu Toameh points, the candidates who were fielded by the Abbas-controlled Fatah leadership found themselves running against Fatah members who formed themselves into an independent ticket. Guess how it turned out?
(Read full "Understanding the term 'Palestinian elections'...")
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