From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Vijay Prashad was published by Alternet on November 2, 2016.
“In 2006, Hillary Clinton sat down with the editorial board of the Jewish Press. Asked about the elections in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Clinton said that she was unhappy with the result because Hamas came out as the winner. ‘I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories,’ she says in a tape recording released a few days ago. ‘I think that was a big mistake.’ Clinton wanted Fatah, the more reliable partner, to win, not Hamas, whom the US considered a terrorist organization. The entire US establishment wanted Fatah to win, so there is nothing too surprising about Clinton’s views. But then she said something that should stop any democratically minded person: ‘And if we were going to push for an election,’ she said, ‘then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.'”
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