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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Why are Reuters and AP declaring this a "shocking" victory?
You'd have to be a fucking idiot - or a member of Hollywood like Steven "Revisionist" Spielberg - to think that the Palestinian rabble ever wanted peace with Israel.
Maybe some people will wake up to this fact. But I highly doubt it.
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I agree that the Hamas success is not a "shock" -- although an outright majority was in doubt.
However, while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hangs over everything, Hamas' victory had less to do with the Fatah policy towards Israel than you suggest.
The biggest reasons Fatah lost were pocketbook and QOL issues and the tremendous corruption and ineffectiveness of the Palestinian Authority. Fatah had been in charge for 13 years, and had made a damn mess of most things (with "help" from the virulent internal opposition). This was for many folks a vote to "throw the bums out" and try something new -- no more and no less.
I think that the need to actually govern the PA will eventually compel Hamas to moderate its positions.
S_A_M
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