Another Bush "scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle"

[Agony]

Bush the moran eff's up another one with his duplicitous crap. (cross-posted in I/P)

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The Gaza Bombshell
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.
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Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. The plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. (The State Department declined to comment.)
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Leave yourself a little time to read this 8 page piece by David Rose (Vanity Fair) --->http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804

And it's not like nobody was pointing out what a bad idea this was over a year ago ---->http://www.slate.com/id/2156078
"WASHINGTON'S LATEST DUMB PLAN TO PUMP UP PALESTINIAN SECURITY FORCES."

So now we know the rest of the story.

background from '03 --->http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2068270.stm

[indepat]

1. Provoking and supporting a bloody civil war might be considered terrorism were not the instigators/

perpetrators the guys wearing the white hats, to wit:: terrorism is committed only by the guys wearing the black hats, no matter how many innocents are slaughtered/maimed/made homeless/jobless/how much infrastructure destroyed. :D

[Agony]

2. "Kill A Hundred Turks And Rest…"

Uri Avnery hit it spot on...

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This week, a shocking document was published: David Rose's article in Vanity Fair. It describes how US officials have in recent years dictated every single step of the Palestinian leadership, down to the most minute detail. Though the article does not touch the Israeli-American relationship (in itself a surprising omission) it goes without saying that the American course, including the smallest items, is coordinated with the Israeli government.
Why shocking? These things were already known, in general terms. In this respect, that article held no surprises: (a) The Americans ordered Mahmoud Abbas to hold parliamentary elections, in order to present Bush as bringing democracy to the Middle East. (b) Hamas won a surprise victory. (c) The Americans imposed a boycott on the Palestinians, in order to nullify the election results. (d) Abbas diverted for a moment from the policy dictated to him and, under Saudi auspices (and pressure), made an agreement with Hamas, (e) The Americans put an end to this and compelled Abbas to turn over all security services to Muhammad Dahlan, whom they had chosen for the role of strongman in Palestine, (f) The Americans provided plenty of money and arms to Dahlan, trained his men and ordered him to carry out a military coup against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, (g) The elected Hamas government forestalled the move and itself carried out an armed counter-coup.
All this was known before. What is new is that the mixture of news, rumors and intelligent guesses has now condensed into an authoritative, well substantiated report, based on official US documents. It testifies to the abysmal American ignorance, which trumps even Israeli ignorance, of the internal Palestinian processes.
George Bush, Condoleezza Rice, the Zionist neocon Elliott Abrams and the assortment of American generals innocent of any knowledge are competing with Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and our own assorted generals, whose understanding reaches as far as the end of the gun barrels of their tanks.
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read the rest of it here

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1205012429