#electioninterference
#palestine
> The United States spent $2.3 million in USAID on support for the Palestinian elections, allegedly designed to bolster the image of President Abbas and his Fatah party.
2.3M$ probably went a long way in 2006
also
>Prior to the 2006 elections, Israel had concerns that Hamas might win enough seats that it could demand a position in government. US President George Bush was not willing to press for Hamas' exclusion from the election process. Abu Mazen (Abbas) was confident that Fatah would win the elections, as was Bush, who urged that the elections should take place.[62] The Guardian observed that the unforeseen election win by Hamas "was seen as an affront to the central premise of the Bush administration's policy in the Middle East: that democratic elections would inexorably lead to pro-western governments".[63]
in other words
palestine has a democratically elected hamas government, because Bush bet with israel that they'd vote a moderate party into power and lost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election
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