Respecting democracy selectively… That why Palestinian chose Hamas…! By: Mohamed Sherif Kamel

Respecting democracy selectively… That why Palestinian chose Hamas…!

By: Mohamed Sherif Kamel*

26 January 2006

 

Am I supporting Hamas or no? This not the question for many reasons, first of all Hamas is a Palestinian movement secondly they ran in the election and thirdly I am not a Palestinian so I have no right to vote in this election.

But why Palestinian Chose Hamas? Many of the pre-paid analysts started to jump claiming that Palestinian wrongly chosen Hamas because it is a terrorist organization, but Israelis have the right to chose any of their extremist parties, you know why because it is the only democracy in the Middle East! American have the right to chose Bush and Italian has the right to chose right wing party, Canadian have the right to chose right wing party…and name it… Wonderful selective democracy!

So if we are really and sincerely looking for peoples right equally, Palestinian have the right to chose, and us have no say but to respect there choice, this is the democracy, as been defined.

I would like first to discuss the new concept of democracy, election under occupation, it is the new American-Israeli philosophy, and those poor people, under occupation, have no right but to respect it, resistance now a day is defined as terrorism, they occupy your land, you have nothing to do but to beg them to leave, and you have to believe them, they will leave but when the like it is not you to chose.

In Afghanistan, in Iraq and now in what so called the “Palestinian Territories”, they force election, if these people under occupation do not go to the poll or boycott the falls election; they would be labelled as “Anti-Democracy” they do not deserve independent.

So people have to go to poll and chose their representative form the parties accepted by the occupier, not every body have the right to stand in this election, not every body have the right to promote his agenda and not in every where, but people have to chose under the check points and the threaten from the occupier, if you chose “X” candidate you are done, “We will not give you the promised dream of peace”, but if you chose “Y” “We might be negotiating with them for the upcoming years to give you partial country in a prate of your land’.

So people have to choose “Y”, other wise they lost every hope, but people have been failed by the strategy of the bankrupt administration that tried every compromise acceptable and not acceptable and they failed so they have no choice but to go to the only alternative “X”.

But the prepaid analysts still asking why people choosing the so called religious parties in Iraq and Palestine? Are they really asking because thy do not know or they are asking because they try to label Arab and Muslim as “All Terrorist People and Religious Fanatic” or “Terrorist by Nature”. Actually it is both, they really do not know anything about the people conditions and the people will, and they do not went to know, it easier to sleep with your negligence, and to surrender yourselves to the propaganda they are promoting for more almost 60 years and they started to believe it.      

When you but people in a falls test do not blame but yourself, you chose the environment, you wrote the history and the future for them and than you ask why?

Do you really need to know the reality? Believe me you can not handle the reality..! But I will put straight forward.

Palestinian deserve the academy award in patient and in trying every single rood to freedom, those rood that did not lead to anything but more occupation and moor suffering, in the other hand us people of the world deserve the academy award for best actors whom claim helping but do not do more than helping the drown people to die as fast as possible. But because Palestinians are people they will never die and will never drown.

Palestinians since 1947 been promised every single thing starting with the right of return, but give away part of your land to Jewish, 1947 boarders, 1948 truce, 1967 boarders, the apartheid wall…. They lived the mascaras one after the other since “Dear Yaseen”… “Aylol”…”Sabra and Shitela”… “Quana”… but they still alive and strong. People do not die people could not be defeated. They tried Madrid, Oslo, Geneva… and they are day after day loosing lands and people and generations.

Do you still wonder why Palestinians chose Hamas, I am not.  

      

 

* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer from Montréal, the editor of I.N. Daily[i]  and the President of the Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM[ii]), could be reach at infr@apm-ram.org 

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