For the first time ever, a superpower is demanding the ousting of a democratically elected leader....nobody has the right to dispose him accept [sic] the Palestinian people who had elected him in the first place.
So, democracy legitimizes governments, hmmm? Where does that leave the theocratic dictatorship of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, exactly? These guys don't lack for brass, I'll say that.
One senses their discomfort with their own argument,
...international law, which gives protection to countries. If the US thinks that Arafat’s government is a dictatorship then this is not an excuse as they are many other such governments in the region.
Ah, well, Arafat doesn't exactly have a country, does he? It's more like he wants the US to force Israel to give him a country. But the notion that American favor could ever depend on Arab behavior is not very comforting to Saudi Arabia at this moment, I bet. |
