As I had Expected- Hamas and Fatah

As I had expected Hamas easily won the battle in Gaza. Hamas was elected by the people of Palestine in a free and fare elections that has the approval stamp of all the organizations that observed it. The corrupt Fatah did not like the defeat and unfortunately the dumb US policy supported Fatah. If Americans had not supported Fatah, had not stopped the international aid and tried to get rid of a legal government by all illegal means, Palestine would not have been in this mess now. But, the US government is doing the same dumb thing it always does. Supporting an unpopular group who now has seized power in a coup with total disregard for the people’s aspirations and decision. What will be the result? A long protracted civil war until the group favoured by people seizes power.

And shame on Canada, today they announced they support the coup government. I just don't understand these supposedly western democracies. They say they respect the will of people and rule of law and the election results. But when people vote for groups that these western powers dislike, then they become the sore losers and whine and complain and don't accept the result of the free elections they themselves were insisting on. Then... What do they expect? To be treated respectfully by those people? To be trusted?

They did the same thing with Algeria and condemned it to years of brutal bloody civil war. They support unpopular and corrupt dictatorships in Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia. And yet, they dare to lecture the world about democracy????

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This is from a post by a Palestinian from the occupied Jerusalem. It proves very well what the ordinary man in the street in Palestine thinks about the Fatah government now:

The Palestinian masses know very well what the US symbolize for them, their children and their enduring cause. It symbolizes oppression in its ugliest forms. It symbolizes mass murder, land theft, dispossession, deprivation and ultimate mendacity and hypocrisy. America is the enabler, sustainer and justifier of 40 years of Israeli Nazism whose ultimate goal is the obliteration of Palestinians as a nation, by arrogating their homeland for them and making their future as precarious as possible.

In short, America to the Palestinians is very much like what Nazi Germany was to the Jews. Hence, any government agreeing to throw itself into the American lap will lose its legitimacy if not its very existence. This is probably the reason why Palestinians in the Gaza Strip didn't fight for Muhammed Dahlan and his men.