Posted on April 11 at 10:47 a.m.
Note that the best that commentator TJG87 can do is bring up Yasser Arafat, that reliable old punching bag of the Zionist thugs, who has been dead for some time now. The Palestinian people were smart enough to vote in the opposition party, Hamas, to look out for their interests.
The Bush administration celebrated this bright new dawn of elective democracy in Palestine by proclaiming the election invalid because the preferred puppet regime, Fatah (Arafat's party), lost by landslide. Bush then paid off a highly unpopular Fatah enforcer to lead a coup against the Hamas government, which failed spectacularly but resulted in Fatah control of the West Bank while the elected Hamas leadership carries on in Gaza. This is reason enough for Bush & Co. to support the blockading and slow starvation of the people of Gaza, who were able to support themselves reasonably well by farming, fishing and manufacturing before the blockade.
Hamas has repeatedly proposed a ceasefire, but Israel refuses to consider such a thing and plays games of 'negotiation' for Condi's amusement while continuing to take over more Palestinian land and to kill Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank and Gaza with US weapons and hearty outspoken encouragement from Bush and most of Congress - including, as noted above, Senator Obama and especially Senator Clinton.
Americans have a moral duty to demand justice for the Palestinians, since our tax dollars are being used to carry out this cruel incremental genocide by the Zionist regime.
Posted on April 11 at 12:17 p.m.
TJG87: "I'm not really sure what facts you are basing your arguments on."
What? Didn't you see the article in Vanity Fair last month? It contains a picture of an actual memo that US State Dept. envoy Jake Walles used in a discussion with Abbas in which the coup against Hamas is clearly being instigated, with substantial financial rewards dangling:
http://www.vanityfair.com/images/politic...
"We have met the terrorists and they are us."
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