 enbar says: The title says it all. He, too, sees Western support of Fatah as a treacherous and cynical way of prolonging intra-Palestinian conflict and sacrificing Palestinian lives. Palestinians, he says, want the PA and Fatah -- both corrupt -- and Hamas -- equally brutal and dangerous -- dismantled and an international peacekeeping force sent in to keep order. PS If you're interested in this kind of thing, and you don't read http://globalvoicesonline.org, check it out! The title says it all. He, too, sees Western support of Fatah as a treacherous and cynical way of prolonging intra-Palestinian conflict and sacrificing Palestinian lives.Sorry, but it takes two to Tango and Iran and Syria have been dancing with Hamas since day one. Yes, but that's kind of beside the point, at least from this guy's perspective, isn't it? Yes, but I wanted to point out that western influences were not the only hands in this matter he is concerned about. If I try, with some difficulty, to see things from this blogger's perspective, I think the point is this. For decades, the West saw Fatah as the party of the arch-terrorists, basically the political wing of the PLO. They bandied about this rhetoric of "democracy" over and over again. Well, now there have been elections in the PA, and Hamas won. Suddenly the West isn't so sure about democracy any more. They start funnelling materiel and arms to Fatah, whom they formerly couldn't stand. Result: an ongoing conflagration. Iran and Syria aren't blameless, but seen from this vantage point, the U.S.'s flip-flopping looks viciously and disgustingly cynical in a way that makes Iran and Syria look like paragons of conscientiousness. It seems to me that the more important point that the blogger is making, though, is that everyone is guilty here -- his worst scorn is reserved for the various Palestinian factions themselves. Sorry, but it takes two to Tango and Iran and Syria have been dancing with Hamas since day one.Who decides, who gets to sleep with who? America? Only? Who decides who the USA gets to sleeps with? Always? How is that you can never see anything from other's point of view? When NED or similar spends vast sums of money to control the outcome of democratic elections in other countries, then that is Ok, by you. Reverse it. How about: China is spending money buying the support of Congressmen to change a vote! Would not like it, would you? Sauce for goose... Yet this happens everyday and you approve. Virtuall... If I try, with some difficulty, to see things from this blogger's perspective, I think the point is this. For decades, the West saw Fatah as the party of the arch-terrorists, basically the political wing of the PLO. They bandied about this rhetoric of "democracy" over and over again. Well, now there have been elections in the PA, and Hamas won. Suddenly the West isn't so sure about democracy any more. They start funnelling materiel and arms to Fatah, whom they formerly couldn't stand. Result: an ongoing conflagration. Iran and Syria aren't blameless, but seen from this vantage point, the U.S.'s flip-flopping looks viciously and disgustingly cynical in a way that makes Iran and Syria l... |
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