Actually, I think that (legislative) election was 2006 -- and the vassal US and its master 'Israel' set about furiously to "do it in." Didn't the Zios arrest-and-incarcerate some 42 duly elected Hamas folk in the West Bank and put the "do it in" train in motion? The Zios are so good at such...divide and conquer, control and dominate et al.

Well, perhaps I (we) are deviating from Caitlin's prime, "big picture" objective in this great posting by her. But, after all, it's all about "empire," isn't it -- and the hapless Palestinians are at the locus, the flashpoint, the Ground Zero, of "empire machinations and evildoing"? Palestine Is STILL THE ISSUE!