Could this be nothing more than an elaborate ruse?!?
Both Fatah & Hamas were in need of money and fresh weapons, what better way to gain all of that if one of them stages a coup and the other plays the victim to the hilt...
The West, being absolutely ignorant throw their weight behind the victim, etc. While in time, that victim either reconciles with the aggressor or falls victim to the aggressor...
The aggressor gains everything and the victim comes out smelling like a rose...
This Fatah v Hamas thing stinks, stinks to high heaven...
I think the West is being played for fools and it is easy to do when it comes to the islamic jihad...
Today I read, in an article titled Abbas's Double Game at FrontPageMag.com, the following:
Abbas’s Double Game
By P. David Hornik
The cracks are already showing in yet another blind Western attempt to impose Western notions of order on the Arab Middle East. On Monday the alternative-media scoop site Debkafile had PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas “in secret talks with Hamas ahead of Abbas’ Jericho meeting with Olmert Monday—and behind his back.”
The scoop went on to say that
Mahmoud Abbas’ close adviser, Jibril Rajoub, is holding secret talks with the Gazan Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad.The article further refers to the “dim view of [this] process” in Israeli defense circles including Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and notes that a key intelligence official told the relevant Knesset committee on Sunday that “the West Bank was the next Fatah-Hamas arena of conflict…and Fatah has no chance of standing up to Hamas there, any more than it did in Gaza. Abbas’ forces are completely dependent on the Israeli army to keep Hamas in check.”
Broad influential circles in Fatah. . .criticize as shortsighted and destined to be short-lived Abbas’ policy of separating the West Bank from Gaza and boycotting Hamas.
This falling away of support for Abbas in his own movement throws further in doubt the US-Israeli strategy of putting all their Palestinian apples in his West Bank basket, as manifested in American dollars and Israeli concessions on security.
By Wednesday the same tidings, more or less, had graduated to the lead story of the mainstream Jerusalem Post, with the headline “Fatah, Hamas said to be moving toward reconciliation” topping a report by Arab-affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh. “Fatah and Hamas officials,” he wrote,
said Tuesday they are conducting secret talks in a bid to patch up their differences following Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip.
The revelation came less than 24 hours after Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during their meeting in Jericho he had no plans to talk to Hamas….
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday he was prepared to step down to pave the way for the resumption of the Hamas-Fatah talks…. [He] told Palestinian journalists he was convinced it was only a matter of time before the two parties returned to the negotiating table.
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What is wrong with the West?!?
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