Democracy in the future for Palestinians?

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THE WORLD
Israel to Lift Curfews; Gaza Stages Rally
From Reuters - published in the LA Times

Link (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pals4jul04.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dworld)

JERUSALEM --President Bush has urged Palestinians to replace Arafat, saying he and his Palestinian Authority have been irreparably tainted by terrorism.

Arafat has set elections for January, but that has not been enough to mollify the U.S.

In Gaza City, thousands rallied in support of Arafat in one of the biggest demonstrations by his Fatah movement in months.

An activist from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed offshoot of Fatah that has carried out suicide bombings that have killed dozens of Israelis, pledged over a loudspeaker that any Palestinian openly challenging Arafat's leadership would be killed.

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One possible answer to the question in the title of the thread?

Reformist Delusions
Ami Isseroff, June 5, 2002
http://www.mideastweb.org/Reformist.htm

The reforms cannot be better than the reality that creates them. The government cannot be better than the polity that composes it. No government can fulfill the conflicting goals of the advocates of reform. The Israelis want a bribable government that will enforce what the Palestinian people do not want, and they want this to be called "democracy." The Palestinians insist on a government based on the current political organizations and goals, with Arafat as the head, an Islamic government that is also democratic, a government that pursues "peace" and at the same time continues the "resistance" and pursues "Palestinian Rights" including Right of Return, and the goals of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad - destruction of Israel. They want that government to avoid civil war at all costs and to govern by consensus. In short, what they want is impossible. When the "reform process" is done, and the "reforms" are in place, it will be evident to everyone that nothing was accomplished, and that salvation is not at hand through the reform gimmick.

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Isseroff is right, so far as I can see. The democratic goals of the Palestinian population, if the opinion polls cited in other threads have any merit, do not include an Israel that is a majority Jewish state.

So what then?