It is arrogant and hypocritical for the United States, Israel and the European Union to try to dictate who can and who cannot run in a Palestinian election. Democracy is a system that allows the governed people, not other nations, to choose whom they wish to govern them. When outsiders attempt to interfere with that process, democracy is corrupted. These countries and organizations are not championing pure democracy; rather they are using the word "democracy" to veil their desire to control who is in power.
Those who argue that Hamas is a militant organization should consider that our first U.S. president was an insurgent himself and leader of a military force that inflicted death and destruction on the British. Furthermore, two other future presidents, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, signed the Declaration of Independence, which was the impetus for armed insurrection against England. What would have happened to America if other countries strong-armed this new nation into excluding these esteemed men from the electoral process?
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