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Respecting democracy

Civil War? According to Instapundit, only in Iraq.

Remember how Bush's crtiics responded to his boycott of the Hamas government by claiming that democracy means accepting and respecting the results of democratic elections (without saying "even if those elections bring a terrorist group to power")?

Now the Holocaust denying President of the PA has called for new elections and Hamas objects.

“I have decided to call for early presidential and parliamentary elections,” Mr. Abbas said. “Let’s return to the people to have their say, and let them be the judge.”

Hamas leaders immediately called Mr. Abbas’s declaration illegal and tantamount to a coup, saying that he had no power to call early elections and that the Palestinian people had given them a majority in free and fair elections only 11 months ago.

So isn't Hamas rejecting a parliamentary maneuver? Doesn't that retroactively show that the organization doesn't believe in democracy?

More at memeorandum.