[news] Abu Mazen Is Right: Freedom, Too, Is Needed

[Resist!ca]

"There was a striking exchange of contrasting views that took place during the Rose Garden event with President George W. Bush and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas... In his remarks, President Bush waxed poetic about his near mystical notion that democracy liberates the human spirit, creates peace and prosperity and ends violence. Abu Mazen countered that democracy is but one side of a coin, the other side being freedom. Abu Mazen noted that while Palestinians were moving on the democracy and reform fronts, they are still not free. Without freedom, democracy is not sustainable and can collapse in a disaster of renewed violence."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/62417/5166