A Democratic PA?

Carolyn Glick writes about Sharon's and Peres's views of a democratic PA.

[Natan] Sharansky wrote in his book [on democracy as a driver of freedom and reduction of the urge for terrorism] that when he presented his ideas to [Ariel] Sharon, the prime minister told him that they "have no place in the Middle East." One of Sharon's advisers reportedly said that Sharon "views Sharansky's ideas with scorn." Peres, the father of the idea of replacing Israel's Civil Administration in the territories with a PLO dictatorship imported from Tunis, has spoken vacuously of the need to build an "economic democracy" — rather than a political democracy — among the Palestinians.