The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Israel is the only democracy in this part of the world.
Israel cannot be a democracy if it occupies land of other people.
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
It is clear a Palestinian state is needed.
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.
It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.