(Jerusalem Post) David Horovitz - People see top Fatah officials building themselves lavish homes and driving luxury cars, and they see jobs being given to relatives and friends, unfairness in the awarding of building permits, and dirty streets. One man says "even Christians are voting for Hamas. People are saying, 'Things can't be any worse.'...Why does the world insist that Mafia rule is the only leadership the Palestinians can have?" Um Muhamad has worked at the reception desk in the El-Bireh municipal building for the past 12 years. "This city got heaps of foreign aid; it never reached the people....Only a handful of people here benefited." And then she says: Peace with Israel is "impossible." "Our religion says the conflict will continue until the day of judgment." Ziad Dayyeh was No. 6 on the victorious Hamas list in El-Bireh. "Hamas looks at Israel as an occupying force. They must get out of Palestine," he says. "Yes, all the area occupied in 1948." No Muslim can recognize a Jewish right to sovereignty in Palestine, he says. "Islam outlaws any force occupying Islamic land."
2006-01-16 00:00:00Full ArticleBACK Visit the Daily Alert Archive