In Gaza the people voted in a free and fair election for Hamas. And how did the American heartland of freedom and democracy react? It snorted contempt and refused both the electoral outcome and recognition of the Hamas organization.

Of course there was also an election in the backyard, that is to say Haiti. Aristide was an overwhelming winner. The U.S. administration glared and complained and then with able assistance of Canada removed Aristide from power and from his country...after offering him the option of being executed.

And yet the media, the sound system of a deeply paranoid and violent U.S. state, is all atwitter that the people of Iran have been robbed in an election. Evidence. "We don't need no stinking evidence", we (big NATO brother and us) know, we know the election should have gone to the guy who most looks like us. Iranians using the latest electronic devices (doesn't everyone have one?) and wearing designer glasses and speaking excellent English and holding up nicely printed English signs ... all with the same cute question about a missing vote. There you go: The media has its story. And a twitter from cyberspace shall lead them.

And a woman is shot. By whom? Under what circumstances? Ours is not to ask, we have vulgar war inducing work to do.

Has any Gazan woman been shot? Any Palestinian bystander? If they have and no one has noticed the fault is ours: We forgot to supply them with twitter capacity and designer glasses. That's got to be the reason.

Mohamed