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Aijaz Zaka Syed; Assistant Editor of the Khaleej Times says:  

The Hamas win is the Palestinian people’s powerful reply to all those who had questioned the Islamic resistance movement’s participation in these elections. The Palestinian voters, by decisively choosing Hamas over the woefully ineffective and corrupt Fatah, have delivered a snub to the West and its attempts to impose its own will over a fiercely free-spirited and democratic people. Without doubt, the arrogance of the United States, Israel and the West in general in dictating the Palestinians to keep Hamas out of the poll and political process played a crucial role in tilting the scales in favour of the Islamists   

Aijaz Zaka Syed continued by saying: 

But isn’t democracy all about respecting people’s verdict? The Palestinian voters have made their choice and done so decisively. They have made it abundantly clear who should and will lead them. Yet the so-called international community (read the West) doggedly refuses to recognise and respect this democratic choice. But then this is hardly the first time it has happened. This has been a familiar history repeatedly enacted across the Middle East. But that’s beside the point.   

I entirely agree with Aijaz Zaka Syed that the political will of the Palestinian people must be respected even though many of us outside Palestine may not agree with the choice they made. 

Click here to view the full editorial on the Khaleej Times. 

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