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Actually, the key in Lebanon is that they could not achieve their minimum objective, which was to stop the rockets.  Those rockets were more lethal, but the principle is the same.  

As for the current war, Fatah seems to be siding with Israel.

Hamas could have prevented the "massacre" in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday in Cairo.

"We spoke to them and told them 'Please, we ask you not to end the cease-fire. Let it continue,'" Abbas said during a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. "We want to protect the Gaza Strip. We don't want it to be destroyed."

Abbas called on Hamas to renew the cease-fire with Israel to avoid further bloodshed in Gaza.

Aboul Gheit also attacked Hamas, saying the group had prevented people wounded in the Israeli offensive from passing into Egypt to receive medical attention.

"We are waiting for the wounded Palestinians to reach Egypt. They aren't being allowed to go through," he said.

Asked who was to blame for the dire situation in Gaza, the foreign minister replied: "Ask the party that controls Gaza."

That will not do much for Fatah's reputation among the Palestinians, but they should be well paid.

by BooMan on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 11:18:49 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Fatah has no choice.

Banned but hopefully not forgotten.
by Mattes on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 11:54:45 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Booman, that's a crucial difference. Hizbullah was able to shut down a third of the country indefinitely. The missiles forced a ground operation that was equally ineffective and costly. After two weeks there was a growing push in the Israeli public to end the war because it was costly to them.

Hamas can't do that. They can't impose a price on the Israelis and the public will never tire of one sided slaughter. True, Hamas will likely be able to fire some small missiles that do minimal damage but that's not such a big deal.

And the global outcry has been relatively muted. This is a serious problem since if the Israelis can kill this many without consequence, they will be encouraged to kill even more next time. And the time after that.

I wouldn't throw the word "holocaust" around lightly, but the pals have been so dehumanized that the Israelis may believe they can commit one and get away with it. And maybe they can if no one complains.

Obama's silence is annoying, but then again, if he spoke, all he'd say is that Israel has to defend itself, we stand behind them, yadda yadda yadda. Perhaps silence is the best we can hope for.

@ Mattes. Fatah indeed has no choice. The puppet can't resist the pull of the strings.

by Lysander on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 12:27:50 PM EST
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"I wouldn't throw the word "holocaust" around lightly"

Why not? Not that long ago an Israeli government official publicly made exactly that threat against Gaza, using using the word Shoah, which is precisely "Holocaust" in Hebrew. If an Israeli government official can used that word to describe Israel's intentions toward Gaza, why shouldn't you?

by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 03:09:06 PM EST
[ Parent ]
What kind of long-term sense does it make for Fatah?
by BooMan on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 12:15:09 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Hamas is the rightfully elected government of Palestine. Hamas won the election because Fatah was seen by the majority of Palestinians as corrupt and too willing to compromise with the occupation and the recalcitrance of the Israeli government.

Fatah conspires with Israel because Hamas represents an existential threat to the continued corruption, greed and treason which Fatah practices.

Fatah is the Alan Colmes to Israel's Hannity.

g.

by gottlieb on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 12:33:57 PM EST
[ Parent ]
You might not be wrong but here's another perspective.

http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/12/20/hamas-take-your-hands-off-the-people/

by ishmael on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 02:18:28 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Right on, Mattes!
by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 03:06:20 PM EST
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It doesn't. It would be suicide.

Israel/USA/Condi were very successful in starting a civil war between the two. I wrote a diary on DK. I'll look for it.

meanwhile, some history:

Hamas omitted its call for the destruction of Israel from its election manifesto, calling instead for "the establishment of an independent state whose capital is Jerusalem."

On 13 February 2006, in an interview in Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, the same Khaled Mashal declared that if Israel wants "peace", it must recognize the 1967 borders, withdraw itself from all Palestinian occupied territories (including the West Bank and East Jerusalem) and recognize Palestinian rights that would include the "right of return".
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On 27 June 2006 Hamas and Fatah reached an agreement which included the forming of a national unity government. On 8 February 2007, Hamas and Fatah signed a deal to end factional warfare that had killed nearly 200 Palestinians and to form a coalition, hoping this would lead Western powers to lift crippling sanctions imposed on the Hamas-led government.

The events leading to the 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict began on 9 June 2006. During an Israeli artillery operation, an explosion occurred on a busy Gaza beach, killing eight Palestinian civilians. It was initially assumed that Israeli shellings were responsible for the killings, although Israeli government officials later denied this. Hamas formally withdrew from its 16-month ceasefire on June 10, taking responsibility for the subsequent Qassam rocket attacks launched from Gaza into Israel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas

After that, Hamas kidnapped the soldiers.

Israel destroyed any chance for unity government that could negotiate for peace....back to the meme...no partner for peace. Israel makes sure of it.

Banned but hopefully not forgotten.

by Mattes on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 01:30:50 PM EST
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Thanks, Mattes. The civil war between Hamas and Fatah was indeed the joint work of Israel and the USA with Condi playing a significant role.

And let's not promote their propaganda language by using it ourselves. Soldiers are not kidnapped, they are captured.

by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 03:13:24 PM EST
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BooMan, stopping the rockets was not Israel's key objective in Lebanon in 2006 any more than "rescuing" their "kidnapped" soldiers was. The objective was considerably bigger than stopping the rockets.
by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 02:41:43 PM EST
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Abbas is a fool. Ehud Barak just said that Israel doesn't want a ceasefire.

I'm with the people who protested today to unite all Palestinians. Leave Abbas (the sore loser) in the dust.

by Cee on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 02:56:30 PM EST
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Fatah have been for decades deeply corrupt people who care far more about their own self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment than about the Palestinian people and the future of Palestine. They have willingly sold out the Palestinians again and again and again for their own personal gain. That is precisely why so many Palestinians, including many Muslim, secular, and Christian Palestinians who could not be considered Hamas supporters voted Hamas into power.

Hanan Ashrawi gives a very good account in her 1996 book, This Side of Peace of the peace negotiations she was involved in and how Arafat and his cronies undermined them.

by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Sun Dec 28th, 2008 at 03:03:56 PM EST
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