How naive can you be. It keeps amazing me.

Just a few remarks on the palestinian elections:

1. Contrary to the impression I got from reading a lot of the israeli press over the net, I do believe that the Hammas was chosen by the PALESTINIANS. Not Sharon, not Olmert, not the disengagement, not even the Israeli left-wing parties chose them. We should stop being so patronizing towards the palestinians – it was their choice, not ours.

2. I don’t believe the Israeli deeds influenced this much the choice. Islam religion is growing strong in the past few years, and you can see this as part of the world-movement. I read the excusions about the palestinian authority being unclean and a protest vote; I don’t buy it.

3. It will not interfere to the international community to deal with the palestinians. The world doesn’t really care if they are terrorists or not, and how many people they kill: never mingle moral issues with politics. The delegitimation of this regime may seem a common sense for you, but it will not happen. How many “illegitimate” regimes can you think of? When northern Korea, for example, is making – in these days – concentration camps and is testing chemical weapons on its own citizens, does anybody care? When african states are killing their own people just for the fun, does anybody notice? And what about all the conflicts in the rest of the world? It is all about money, like Clinton said in a different occasion. Who cares if they are bloody terrorists, the french (for example) can always make some “freedom fighters” out of them.