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Who Needs Democracy?
(Ynet News) Guy Bechor - The victory of Egypt's ruling party and the independent candidates who belong to it, by a fantastic 95% majority, takes the Middle East years back to the era before the man perceived to be a menacing sheriff - President George W. Bush - demanded democracy in our region. Democratization in the Arab world was forced and short-lived, despised and detached from the region's heritage and religious traditions. The opponents of the Arab regimes in our neighborhood are much more hostile to Israel and are affiliated with radical Islam and the far left. The distant West may regret to see democracy evaporating in the Arab world, yet those who seek stability, responsibility, and quiet understandings in the Middle East can find encouragement in the return of the past, and in the 95% defeat suffered by President Mubarak's rivals. The writer is a lecturer in Arab law and Middle East politics at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.