Lacking the legitimacy democracy might confer, they rightly dread being branded as appeasers who have sold out the Palestinians at the behest of a resented superpower.

• 由于缺乏民主制度可能赋予它们的合法性，这些政权有理由担心被打上奉可恶的超级大国之命、出卖巴勒斯坦人民的绥靖者标签。