One vote, one man, one time…

It has been said that democracy and all its machinations is not true 'people power' until the majority party is voted out and they give up power to the minority party. Joe Klein on corporate media, quoting a late twentieth century Egyptian, underscored this notion of pseudo-power transfer when he repeated, the tongue and cheek mantra “One man, One vote, One time.”

Thus we have Hamas. It is of no small consequence that the last “election” for the Palestinians was a decade ago. Coupled with this victory for Hamas is the changing of the guard in Israel. After the Israelis have digested the Hamas victory; the Knesset will move to a hard-line front.

The chess board is now set. We have a popularly elected group in Hamas and a hard-line government unwilling to deal with terrorist groups. Ironically, the Israelis used terrorist tactics against the British (circa 1947), to achieve autonomy and the British now have close ties to the Israel. Unfortunately, Hamas demonstrates once again that terrorism and guerrilla tactics will bear fruit to a political party or sovereign nation.

Moreover, pundits and politicos alike have trumpeted the sound for Hamas to change their ways (aka terrorist actions). Uh? Why? Why would a group known for such actions change their ways? Remember the people elected this group into power with full knowledge of their terrorist history. So in the political world of representative democracy Hamas represents the people. Fatah did not produce the desired results and they have been marginalized. Terrorism and force were elected in Palestine. A theme which will also be revealed in Iraq, in effect, the Hamas victory is a primer for Iraq.