[Peace-discuss] US likes the violence in Palestine
David Green
davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 11 09:00:49 CDT 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20070704/wl_mcclatchy/20070704bcmideastgaza_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop
This article, which appeared on the front page of the N-G Commentary section on Sunday, explains (unintentionally) a lot about why Americans are so "confused" about the Israel-Palestine conflict. It simply takes for granted that it's acceptable for the most powerful country in the world to violently overthrow a democratically-elected leadership in the weakest non-country in the world. It implies that this is a moral choice on the part of U.S. leaders, because Hamas is defined as a violent Islamist movement that wants to overthrow Israel. The rest of the article assumes that the U.S. would have wished for Fatah to dominate Gaza, which is not at all apparent. They simply wish for there to be ongoing chaos, with the focus on inter-Palestinian conflict rather than on Israel of the U.S.
"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
"The US clearly pushed for a confrontation between Fatah and Hamas, so
much so that, a week before Mecca [where the two factions met in
February 2007 and under the auspices of King Abdullah agreed to a unity
government] the US envoy declared twice in an envoys' meeting in
Washington how much 'I like this violence,' referring to the near civil
war that was erupting in Gaza, in which civilians were being regularly
killed and injured, because 'it means that other Palestinians are
resisting Hamas.'"
--Alvaro de Soto, UN Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East Peace
Process, in the final report he wrote before resigning in May 2007;
Hamas won a democratic election in January of 2006 but didn't exactly
benefit from the Bush administration's brave attempt to bring democracy
to the Middle East.
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