Saturday, January 03, 2009

Electioneering in Gaza:

Trouble with Democracy?

Let's assume that there is a serial killer who have kidnapped a kid. The killer uses the kid as a human shield as the police surrounds him.

Do you think that a policeman has got the license to kill the murderer AND the child, if it's not possible to neutralize the convicted killer in another way?

All Israelis should think about this question just now and put pressure on their government, which would like to gain some cheap votes by spilling Palestinian blood just before the February 10 parliamentary elections...

Finally, we should see that this is a problem of democracy. Hamas, as a political organization with terrorist offsprings, had been elected democratically. Just like the Israeli government, which killed more than 100 innocent civilians in Gaza in one week...

Democracy should fix its problematic infrastructure, which reproduces the war machine continously. But would it still be democracy without its conflict-producing quality?