Al-Mithaq [Archives:2006/920/Press Review]
6 Feb. 2006
Main headlines
– The GPC Higher Committee emphasizes the necessity of adhering to constitution and the law in all stages of the elections
– The Lebanese International University opens a branch in Yemen
– Trial of 14 persons plotted to assassinate Yemeni personalities and foreign citizens
– Industry and Trade Ministry: Yemen market affected by rise in world prices, some merchants is exploiters
Columnist Dr Abdulaziz al-Maqaleh writes an article on Bush's one-dimension democracy saying the white House and its administration promotes a kind of democracy void of principles and values. It is merely slogans similar to the lies that have deceived some people for some time but cannot deceive all people for all the time. The response of the White House to the free democratic elections in Palestine is the best evidence on that.
The Palestinian legislative elections took place with the presence of tens of international observers, especially the former American president Jimmy Carter. All have witnessed they were free and decent elections that realized ambition of the majority opinion. The international community and America in particular should have admitted the right of the winner in running the governance even if its stands do not satisfy some parties. However, the White House refuses to recognize these elections results because it believes in a special kind. It should be a democracy in agreement with its goals. If peoples behaved unlike the desire of the White House and its administration and chose according to their freedom those who they want to rule them, then the democracy would not be acceptable and has no place on the agenda of the new world order.
Undoubtedly, the conditions and criteria the American administration put for application of its special democracy, would constitute many problems for this administration and the world and the peoples. Those peoples who have suffered much in their longing to the right democracy where nothing can control but the will of peoples and balloting boxes. No one has ever thought that democracy as a political and social value will one day be a goal to appease his international power or that. It is meant for establishment of justice and achievement of peoples' dreams and deliverance from nightmares of dictatorships. It seems the type of democracy the White House exports oppressively to will deform the genuine democracy and makes many peoples sty away from.
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