RE: Palestinian President Suspends Top Aide in Sex Scandal (Monday Feb. 15, 2010)
To the editor:
Here in the United States, we too have experienced corruption within our authority and it is usually brought to our attention by one person with hidden secrets. We may think some of the scandals that come out of our government our bad, but when we take a look at other countries "cover ups" ours don't look all that bad. For example, in February 15th's New York Times there was an article regarding a sex scandal and Palestine's chief of staff to their president. This whole situation surfaced when a former Palestinian intelligence official, Fahmi Shabaneh, said he was frustrated with the intense corruption within their government. Of course, Mr. Husseini is blaming Israel for doctoring the sex tape and it's said that Mr. Shabaneh is basically score-settling from a previous dispute with the chief of staff. The beginning of this article first had me thinking mostly of the corruption with the sex scandal, however towards the end I began to realize the corruption goes much further into their government. The members of their government are going out of their way to personally do harm on each other. Mr. Shabaneh went out of his way to set up a hidden video camera and record the chief of staff in a very personal situation and probably because he was just trying to get back at the Husseini for pressing charges on him in Israel. The point is, there is so much corruption within their authoritative people, that even the people claiming and trying to stop the corruption are only doing it as a way to to settle past corruption allegations on themselves. It seems that no one is trustworthy in this situation and to be fixed, it's going to require major government changes.
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This also shows how humans are the same no matter the borders or regions that they live within. I have no doubt that many of our politicans harm each other by voting for an opposing bill or taking some photographs. However, I like it when you say that no one is trustworthy in the situation. How true! How true it is, too, that it is something that is harming their country.
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