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Anyone But Fatah
By Micah Halpern

Sunday December 26,2004

I've Been Thinking:

The Palestinian Authority election will be much closer than originally thought.

Using last week's local elections as an indication, when they again go to the polls on January 9 Palestinians might experience their equivalent of "Anyone But Bush."

"Anyone But Fatah," might become the clarion and effective campaign slogan.
Fatah is Arafat's party.
The local elections of last week showed that Fatah lost in areas considered to be their strongholds, especially south of Jerusalem where conventional wisdom always held that "cooler heads prevailed."

The main alternative to Fatah is the more radical Hamas. 7 village elections went to Hamas. 12 went to Fatah. The remaining 7 are so close they could easily go to Hamas.

What does it mean? It means that people are fed up with Fatah. It means that democracy does not always usher in a more liberal government. And it means that even if Abu Mazen wins on January 9, he will not have a sound wall to wall endorsement.

Stay tuned.

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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