Palestinian vote jolts U.S. imperialists

By Michael Kramer

U.S. imperialist policy and its plans for the Middle East have been in more disarray and failing at a faster rate with every explosion and guerrilla ambush in Iraq.

Now every election in Palestine is adding to the misery in the Bush administration and all its generously funded government think-tanks and pseudo-research institutions full of recycled State Department bureaucrats, retired Pentagon officers and right-wing academics.