Perhaps the best indication of the extent to which the world has been Orwellized is the toady news coverage of the Palestinian “election”, including in the Israeli media, itself largely the occupied territory of the far-left.
For months, the media were all in suspense over whether the victors in the “election” would be the Hamas terrorists or the PLO terrorists. As it turned out, Hamas evidently won the “election” by a huge majority.
The first part of the absurdity in the message daily inculcated by the Israeli political elite is that there is any significant difference between the PLO and Hamas. There is not. Both are equally dedicated to unlimited terror and violence, to genocide and the eradication of Israel in any form and in any borders. Both have conducted suicide bombings and in fact, if I am not mistaken, the PLO’s terror brigades carried out more such attacks than Hamas did over the past two years. The Kassam rockets are at least as much the initiative of the PLO as they are that of Hamas. The PLO proliferates anti-Semitic propaganda as much as Hamas and is just as allied with the Hizbullah, Syria and Osama Bin-Laden.
But the Israeli establishment has been repeating the empty “we have a peace partner in the PLO” mantra for so many years that they managed to fabricate artificial suspense over the Palestinian “election”. If the PLO were to win, then “Palestine” would be ruled by moderates, people with whom Israel could strike a deal, could do business – the pragmatists. Nice Nazis. Israel has been awash in speeches by politicians and mindless bumper stickers proclaiming: “We have a peace partner.”
Now, this may strike you as bizarre, but I have been arguing that the best thing that could happen in the Palestinian Authority “election” would be a strong Hamas victory. Let me explain
This is a good article with an interesting point of view.
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Honestly I’m going to have to agree that Hamas winning is a good thing but for military reasons. Once sworn in, Hamas becomes the government of the palestinian authority. Until that time any attacks against Israel are terrorist attacks and Israel can only respond with limited responses. Once the Hamas party comes into power, any attacks against Israel become acts of WAR. At that time Israel can bulldoze the entire palestinian territories and be legitimately in their rights to do so. To this point it has been Israel’s policy to target Hamas leaders in retaliation for terror attacks. They can now not only do that now, but with 77 seats in the palestinian parliament being filled by Hamas leaders, they can now do it VERY efficiently. 2 planes equipped with 2 500 lbs bombs each will eliminate the vast majority of Hamas leaders in very short order and do it from 30,000 ft so they don’t even hear or see the planes coming.