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‘It is truly the first peaceful change of power of such fundamental proportions in the Arab history’

HAMAS’S stunning Palestinian election victory this week signals that democratic change is possible in the Arab world, even if the United States might not be pleased with the outcome of an idea it has championed.

The Islamist movement is poised to form the next Palestinian gover..

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) declared officially on Saturday its electoral program. Of its list “Change and Reform” through which Hamas will stand for elections on 25th of January 2006 . The text of the program is as follows:

Introduction
1- Our Principles
2- Domestic Policy
3- Foreign Relations
4- Administrative Reform And Combating Corruption..

 The Jordanian government appeared over the past few days under pressure to resume contacts with the hard-line Palestinian group Hamas following its sweeping victory in Wednesday\’s general elections.

The authorities received signals from leading politicians and columnists that it was high time for the Jordanian authorities to reverse a previous decision and allow back to the coun..

Yet another political earthquake has struck the Middle East. Hamas, standing for the first time in national elections, won a massive landslide victory in Gaza and the West Bank. Hamas won 76 seats out of 132 in Parliament, and Fatah has only 43. It is the first time in over 40 years that Fatah has lost its position as the predominant organisation amongst Palestinians. Hamas won seats in all the..

 Hamas’s triumph in Wednesday’s Palestinian elections is the best news from the Middle East for a long time. The poll was a more impressive display of democracy than any other in the region, outstripping last year’s votes in Lebanon and Iraq both in turnout and the range of views that candidates represented.

Whereas in Iraq parties that opposed the occupation had to downplay or ev..

What’s so hard about it, George W. Bush wonders. Everyone makes governing
such a big deal, like it’s complicated or something. They are the ones who
make it complicated, with all those shades of gray and "nuance" stuff.
George brushed all that nonsense away and whittled the governing process
down to one cure-all for domestic governance and one for foreign policy.

Fo..

President Bush’s desire to democratize the Middle East has run into a land mine. But this time the explosion is more of his own making.

Democratizing the entire Middle East is fine in theory, but there are some very serious problems in promoting a Western-style democracy at this time in history. The recent landslide victory of Hamas has left people in our State Department shaking their..

Shalom Harari is a former Israeli Military Intelligence officer who has been following the rise of Hamas—the Islamic Resistance Movement—for almost a quarter century. An awkward, voluble man of nearly sixty, Harari gained a measure of fame in intelligence circles when he began to tell his colleagues in internal reports that Hamas, founded in 1987, and initially a small outgrowth of the Egyptian..

The Islamists have done it again. First it was Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood surprised everyone - including the group’s own leaders - by winning 20 percent of seats in the People’s Assembly and trouncing all legal opposition parties. Now Hamas has scored a shocking victory over Fatah in elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council, leaving Washington to muse about the unintended cons..

If Israel withdraws from the territories it occupied in 1967, the movement will end armed resistance

A so-called expert was asked on the BBC’s Arabic service last week what he thought Hamas should do now it is likely to be the government in the Palestinian territories. Hamas would have to change, he said, because the Palestinian people would want a government that recognises Israel, is..