also be sure to conveniently glaze over when israel and the US back one faction or another, depending on which way the wind is blowing.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGIPMV3N61.DTL
"The U.S.' involvement in attempts to bring down the Hamas government has only made things worse for Abbas and Fatah," wrote Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinian affairs correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, in a commentary titled "Guns and Poses."
"The U.S. believes that by giving Abbas more rifles and cash, it would be able to bring about regime change. But in the West Bank and Gaza, there is no shortage of weapons. Tons of explosives, rifles and missiles are smuggled across the Egyptian border nearly every day. What the Palestinians need is not more rifles -- which they never use to stop Hamas, Islamic Jihad or other militias anyway -- but good governance and credible leaders," he wrote. "American meddling in Palestinian affairs is backfiring, because many Palestinians are beginning to look at Abbas and Fatah as pawns in the hands of the U.S. and Israel. This does not help Abbas and moderate secular Palestinians, who are facing the dangers of the growing power of Islamic fundamentalism."
ha. good one. 'backfiring'. right...
it's funny but israeli media is a great place to find real discussion of these issues. they know that backing one faction against another is a one-way trip to radicalization, they know these things because they see the direct affects, they see how much less safe they are this week when a horrible policy or reprisal was enacted last week.
balkanization. the complete destruction of an organized, nationalist, secular resistance to israel's total dominion over the middle east.
see also lebanon, see also iraq - the last thing that zionism/colonialism as a movement wants to see is well-educated, socially advanced arabs. much better to have a rabble of islamic fundamentalism, thereby justifying the slow ethnic cleansing and guaranteeing assistance from us.