Reply #1: Good.

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However, I have a quibble here. If you want free elections, you need to accept the results could not be the ones you expect.

I am sure there are a lot to say about the elections in Gaza (and Lebanon), but there is a lot to say about the elections in Jordan, or in Egypt with the Mubarak regime. I can only agree that having an election does not insure a free and representative government, but I really wished he dropped the reference to Gaza.

Now, he may not mean what I think he does, but, in the context of other elections in the past (like Iran in the 50s and Chile), the way this is formulated is somewhat problematic.