bingo!
and there are parallels in other places like belfast or any us inner city where a gang rules
That is why when there are free elections in the ME the moderates always run the table winning everything. Locking out the more extremist groups from having any authority.
Please tell me that's sarcasm... The last time the Palestinians voted, they ousted a murderous band of cutthroats, (Fatah) and replaced them with an even
more murderous band of cutthroats (Hamas). As a young man, I used to believe that, given relief from an oppressive government,
everyone would choose to be an Adam Smith sort of laissez faire capitalist/republican. What a fool I was.