עוד פוליטיקה על הבוקר
היום בדרך לעבודה, שמעתי ברדיו (בתוכנית הבוקר של רפי רשף) את גלעד ארדן (ליכוד) מתנצח עם אברהם הירשזון (קדימה, ליכוד לשעבר), ואחת הנקודות שהוא טרח להטיח בהירשזון היא ש”אהוד אולמרט נתן לחמאס לנצח בבחירות על ידי זה שנתן להם לקיים את הבחירות במזרח ירושליים”. הירשזון רק ציין שההשפעה של מזרח ירושליים על התוצאות הסופיות היתה קטנה מאוד אם בכלל והחמאס היה מנצח בכל מקרה.
אבל מה שהוא לא ציין, זה שזה גאוני ! אין דרך יותר טובה לעשות דה-לגיטימציה לממשלה הפלשתינאית מאשר לגרום לארגון טרור מוכר (המוגדר ככזה באופן רשמי על ידי ממשלות ברחבי העולם, לחלקן יש חוקים נגד יחסים עם ארגוני טרור) להבחר להקים את הממשלה בעזה. ברגע שארגון טרור מקים את הממשלה הפלשתינאית, לאף אחד בעולם לא תהיה טענה כנגד ישראל על כך שהיא לא ממשיכה במחוות כלפי הצד הפלשתינאי או פותחת אתו במשא ומתן על הסדר הקבע.
ואם יקרה (עד כמה שאני מסופק בכך) שהחמאס יסכים להתפרק מנשקו על מנת לקבל מעמד מוכר בעולם, הרי שהרגנו שתי ציפורים במכה אחת 🙂
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.
I never meant to imply that the Israeli actions (recent or otherwise) had anything to do with the Hamas victory. I firmly believe in the Palestinians’ ability (and right) to fuck themselves over on their own. Hamas, in addition to being a terror group and a political party, is also a charity organization and I expect that their victory had a lot more to do with that then with the blame of “Israeli terror” they keep trumping. (BTW – its interesting to note that in that regard, the Hamas has a lot in common with an Israeli political party who wins votes through charity work, and I won’t name names).
There has been a recent controversy over the Hamas won elections, where Likud members have blamed the Ulmert ran temporary government of providing financial support to the Palestinian government – the one which is about to be overtaken by a known terrorist organization – and more recently people came up with “so called” proof that the Palestinian government had been financing their own terror groups (El-Akza batallions et al.) using Israeli money.
I expect all this to have stayed firmly in the background if it wasn’t for the Hamas victory. I’m not really that naive – I’m sure there is some person or group who expect these events to be beneficial, and is stirring up the issues, but I’m not sure yet of who or why.
There charity is not trhe main theme for their winning.
I think that it proofs that our arab neighbours are just a blood thirsty mob