[Marxism] US plotted to overthrow Hamas after election victory

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Formatting and links in the original:
  http://lefti.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html#2349278143774576501

For those of us who read the left press, the headline to this post falls in the 
"No shit, Sherlock" category; you could have read the same thing a year ago in 
an article by Richard Becker on pslweb.org. But an article in tomorrow's 
Guardian may produce wider recognition of a simple fact, now that it has been 
publicly acknowledged:

     The Bush administration, caught out by the rise of Hamas, embarked on a 
secret project for the armed overthrow of the Islamist government in Gaza, it 
emerged yesterday.

     Vanity Fair reports in its April edition that President George Bush and 
the 
secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, signed off on a plan for the Palestinian 
president, Mahmoud Abbas, to remove the Hamas authorities in Gaza. The plan 
called for Washington's allies in the region to funnel arms and salaries to 
Fatah fighters who would lead a rising against Hamas.

     "It looks to me that what happened wasn't so much a coup by Hamas but an 
attempted coup by Fatah that was pre-empted before it could happen," [said 
David 
Wurmser, a former Middle East adviser to the vice-president, Dick Cheney]

History couldn't be clearer. Any pretense that the U.S. respects democracy, or 
treaties, or international law, is a sham of the highest order.


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