Israel: ".. Obama has to understand, that democracy is not just the rule of majority & free election,”

"Israel has witnessed democracy emerge in the Arab world only to be disappointed when Islamist take over. The U.S. insisted that the Palestinians hold free and fair parliamentary elections in 2006, a vote that the Hamas movement – an Islamist movement sworn to Israel’s destruction -- won. In Lebanon, democratic elections have gradually led to Hizbullah’s control of the government. Last month, the  movement forced Prime Minster Saad Hariri to step down and has named its own candidate to succeed him. Both Hamas and Hizbullah play democratic politics while controlling their own armies and conducting private foreign policy, Israel says...Speaking at the Herzliya conference on security and policy near Tel Aviv last week, Gilad assessed that the only place in the region where democracy had a real chance of taking root was Iran, a non-Arab nation."