The United States has quietly started a campaign projected to cost up to $42 million to bolster Hamas's political opponents ahead of possible early Palestinian elections, say officials linked to the program. ...(Haaretz)
"This project supports (the) objective to create democratic alternatives to authoritarian or radical Islamist political options," one official U.S. document obtained by Reuters said.
However you slice it, an election influenced by $42 mil in funding from a foreign power has nothing to do with democracy. In the old-fashioned, pre-9/11 sense of the word, I mean. You know, George Washington's sense. And those other guys.
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