After the Muslim Brotherhood Gaza wing won the elections, there were no more democratic elections. Not to say what was their obvious agenda in Egypt also. We will never know which options would have been better.
There hasn't been an election in Gaza AND the West Bank. If they won the parliamentary elections why haven't they been in power in the West Bank? After having funded and coordinated a failed election victory for Fatah, the US planned to overthrow Hamas.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/report-u-s-funding-fatah-in-palestinian-elections-1.62877 Just how much further matters would be taken was revealed in April 2008. Tom Segev (in Ha?aretz) reported:
a ?confidential document, a ?talking points? memo,[47] was left by the U.S. consul general in Jerusalem, Jake Walles, on the desk of Mahmoud Abbas . ? According to the paper left behind ? he wanted to pressure Abu Mazen to take action that would annul the outcome of the elections that had catapulted Hamas to power. ? When nothing happened, Walles ? warned the Palestinian president that the time had come to act. Instead, Abu Mazen launched negotiations with Hamas on the establishment of a unity government. ? At this point the Americans moved to "Plan B." That was a plan to eliminate Hamas by force. In fact, it was to be a deliberately fomented civil war Fatah was supposed to win, with U.S. help.? [48]
In April 2008 Vanity Fair published ?The Gaza Bombshell?:
?There is no one more hated among Hamas members than Muhammad Dahlan, long Fatah?s resident strongman in Gaza. Dahlan, who most recently served as Abbas?s national-security adviser, has spent more than a decade battling Hamas. ? Bush has met Dahlan on at least three occasions. After talks at the White House in July 2003, Bush publicly praised Dahlan as ?a good, solid leader.? In private, say multiple Israeli and American officials, the U.S. president described him as ?our guy.?
Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. The plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with new weapons supplied at America?s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. (The State Department declined to comment.)
Some sources call the scheme ?Iran-contra 2.0,? recalling that Abrams was convicted (and later pardoned) for withholding information from Congress during the original Iran-contra scandal under President Reagan. There are echoes of other past misadventures as well: the C.I.A.?s 1953 ouster of an elected prime minister in Iran, which set the stage for the 1979 Islamic revolution there; the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, which gave Fidel Castro an excuse to solidify his hold on Cuba; and the contemporary tragedy in Iraq.[49]
The Jerusalem Post confirmed that the documents cited by Vanity Fair ?have been corroborated by sources at the US State Department and Palestinian officials?, and added:
? The report said that instead of driving its enemies out of power, the US-backed Fatah fighters inadvertently provoked Hamas to seize total control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007. David Wurmser, who resigned as Vice President Dick Cheney's chief Middle East adviser a month after the Hamas takeover, said he believed that Hamas had no intention of taking over the Gaza Strip until Fatah forced its hand. "It looks to me that what happened wasn't so much a coup by Hamas but an attempted coup by Fatah that was preempted before it could happen," he was quoted as saying. Wurmser said that the Bush administration engaged in a "dirty war in an effort to provide a corrupt dictatorship [led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] with victory." Wurmser said he was especially galled by the Bush administration's hypocrisy. "There is a stunning disconnect between the president's call for Middle East democracy and this policy," he said. "It directly contradicts it.".[50]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_legislative_election,_2006Alistair Crooke, a former MI6 officer who also worked for the EU in Israel and the Palestinian territories, said the British documents reflected a 2003 decision by Tony Blair to tie UK and EU security policy in the West Bank and Gaza to a US-led "counter-insurgency surge" against Hamas ? which backfired when the Islamists won the Palestinian elections in 2006.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/25/palestine-papers-mi6-hamas-crackdown
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