Today, after my post about the Netanyahu visit to Jordan, I read a couple of headlines about the trade union leadership in Jordan complaining that Netanyahu is a "criminal" and shouldn't have been received by the King.
Nothing earth-shattering in the articles (I can't expect everyone to be as excited by the open-ness of King Abdullah as I am), but it brings up (again) the connection between militant Islamic fundamentalism (especially within the PA) and socialist organizations. There is a real connection there, from the manner in which the PA structures itself and its policies, to the people that support it from outside of Palestine.
Perhaps some of this is a carry-over from when the Soviet Union was the primary outside supporter of all things "Arab" in the Middle East... I'm not sure. While the US was backing Israel with everything we had, the Soviets were pumping arms and supplies (and money) into states like Syria, Jordan, Iran, and Egypt (and into the PLO... we can't forget the Arafat-Moscow link, either)... and this might still be reflected in how the PA structures itself and its economic engines.
The important thing to keep in mind, though, is that the "experiment" is a failure, and socialism/communism cannot work, especially in a society where religion is such a fundamental aspect of daily life, at every level. The PA is almost doomed to fail at nearly every level of economic planning it attempts to structure and regulate. From fixed pricing to unionism in politics, the "rule of the proletariat" is a failure from the start, each and every time it is attempted.
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