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Originally Posted by Xazy
Well Hamas won the Palestinian election. While I am for a democracy, how can you try to make peace, or even attempt to negotiate with someone who just three days ago said ". "We do not recognize the Israeli enemy, nor his right to be our neighbor, nor to stay [on the land], nor his ownership of any inch of land."
While I am shocked by this, it is insane, I have no good faith in any more peace talks with a governemnt run by such an organization. Even if they just 'say' lets make peace. Arafat did say that, while in other speeches say the opposite. It has to be more then words.
Meanwhile the current administration all resigned in mass.
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It's too bad people continute to pretend that democracy is the end all solution to rouge nations. The US's founding fathers recognized the problems with democracy and set up a constitutional republic utilizing few aspects of democracy. The key difference is that in a democracy, the government exists to do the will of the people, in a constitutional republic the government exists to protect the rights of people. Unfortunetly, this system has deteriorated over the years.
I'd rather have a government that protects the rights of people, instead of a government that can be elected to do the will of the mob whether it be good or bad (terrorism in the case of Hamas). So what if the majority of the people are behind Hamas in this election, that doesn't give them the authority to commit terrorism.