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Some Warn of Rising Islamist Tide in the Middle East
(Newsday) Timothy M. Phelps - Dov Zakheim, a former top official in President Bush's Pentagon, said Thursday after the Islamist terrorist Hamas movement swept Palestinian elections, "We have a situation not unlike Germany in 1932 when we had an upstart [Nazi] party ruled by thugs that preached hatred and racism, and also claimed they would clean up a corrupt Weimar Republic." Robert Satloff, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said the Bush administration has "an almost messianic commitment to the idea of voting - that people will be transformed from what they were before into something new. But evil people take advantage of the democratic process for evil ends, which is precisely how I would describe what is happening. It's a democratic coup against the institution of peacemaking."