Another post about Israel, but less self-righteous: basically just a link

An interesting little piece in the Christian Science Monitor about U.S. policy after the election of Hamas. I found this to be a small but important piece of context about our botched plans to get our almost-friends elected in Palestine.

Also, Guatemala is really cool and my Spanish is coming along, well, slowly.

Hamas never called for the elections that put them in power. That was the brainstorm of Secretary Rice and her staff, who had apparently decided they could steer Palestinians into supporting the more-compliant Mahmoud Abbas (the current president of the Palestinian authority) and his Fatah Party through a marketing campaign that was to counter Hamas's growing popularity – all while ignoring continued Israeli settlement construction, land confiscation, and cantonization of the West Bank.

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