I’m at a bit of a loss to understand the attitude of the United States and EU toward the situation in Palestine.  As someone pointed out this morning on NPR, this isn’t Hamas, it’s the democratically elected government of Palestine.  Are we for that sort of thing, or aren’t we?

The usual protocol with new governments is to cooperate with them until they mess you over, then impose sanctions, or wipe them off the map, or whatever the NeoCons are doing these days.  One does not espouse democracy, and then dismiss the results thereof–at least not if one expects the rest of the world to have any faith in our national integrity.

The government of Palestine deserves the same treatment as any other duly-elected body.  Treating them otherwise further erodes the credibility of the soi-disant democratic countries, and gives the rest of the world the impression that we only apply such theories to the people who suck up to us.

That’s if you believe that the US and its allies have any integrity left.