I’ve been wondering what Natan Sharansky, champion of Middle East democratization, has to say about the Hamas election victory. You might have been, too. Ha’aretz has the scoop. Essentially, he argues that to have real democracy, you need a free society, not just free elections. The Palestinians had free elections, but no free society. A very interesting interview.
UPDATE: And here, courtesy of a reader, is a Sharansky op-ed on the same topic.
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