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Democracy is tricky. Terrorism has a mandate. The terror/statesmen of Hamas were last seen scouting out foreign aid.

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Palestinian voters face the same problem as Americans.  Not much to choose from  political partywise.  We have Democrats and Republicans but they're all members of the Beltway / K street coalition of perpetual office holding.  Still, every so often, voters do rise up and throw the bums out.

Palestinians have Fatah and Hamas  - the corruption party and the terrorist party.  Perpetual office holding for Fatah ran up against its limits when Yasir Arafat assumed room temperature. Fatah hacks gobbled up foreign aid donations like they were Indian casino kickbacks.  Plus they couldn't fix the streets or control the street thugs.  So the voters threw the bums out and replaced them with more disciplined, higher octane terrorists.  Hamas actually can make the trains run on time.  Whether it can wipe out Israel, a major plank in its platform,  remains to be seen. 

One thing is sure.  If Hamas wants to govern it will have to survive the victory party.