Saturday, August 09, 2008

Sharansky: democracy as prerequisite

There Won't Be "Peace" Without Democracy -Natan Sharansky & Bassem Eid

It is high time that Palestinian civil society be fully recognized by the international community as a prerequisite to peace. If Palestinian civil society is not empowered, the Fatah-controlled West Bank may soon be ruled by Hamas.
(Wall Street Journal)

2 comments:

LHwrites said...

The choices of the Palestinian electorate may not always aid peace. And as Alexander Solzhenitsyn showed, not eevryone wants the same freedoms that America has to fofer. But certainly, there can be no peace the way things are now.

Bruce said...

Indeed.