Award winning journalist David Rose, reporting in April's Vanity Fair,
dropped "the Gaza Bombshell: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
and President George W. Bush's secret Palestinian intervention
backfired in a big way. 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
East
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.
"There is no one more hated among Hamas members than
Muhammad Dahlan, long Fatah’s resident strongman in
Dahlan, who most recently served as Abbas’s national-security
adviser, has spent more than a decade battling Hamas. Dahlan insists
that abu Dan was tortured without his knowledge, but the video is
proof that his followers’ methods can be brutal. Bush has met Dahlan
on at least three occasions. After talks at the White House in July 2003,
Bush publicly praised Dahlan as “a good, solid leader.” In private, say
multiple Israeli and American officials, the
him as “our guy.”
"Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since
corroborated by sources in the
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
democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. The
State Department declined to comment." [1]
On March 5th, this civilian journalist received an email from
Jerusalem issued from Ramallah, Palestine on 3 March 2008: "
In response to the Vanity Fair article (appearing in the April 2008
edition) authored by David Rose, Palestinian Legislative Council
Member and former National Security Advisor Mohammed Dahlan
states the following:
"1. During my tenure as the National Security Advisor, the US
Administration failed to provide any support to the Palestinian
Authority. Despite the claims of support, the
failed to offer material or political support to the Palestinian
Authority (“PA”). Rather, the
occupation and colonization of
service to the Palestinians.
"2. Neither Fatah nor the PA received money from the
States
"3. The only “plan” to which the
a Palestinian plan to reform the Palestinian Authority’s security
services in order to make these services responsive to the needs
of all Palestinians in the
this Palestinian-created plan to reform the PA’s security forces
was both presented to and approved by the Hamas leadership
(in particular deposed PM Ismail Haniyeh). Accordingly there
was (and remains) no secret plan to carry out a coup against
Hamas. Although the
to reform the PA’s security forces (by offering assistance for non
lethal equipment as requested by the PA), financial support was
never received."
Every right thinking person comprehends that the PA is just another
layer of The OCCUPATION and that every government lies and all
politicians are FOXES, meaning they only care about gaining and
keeping power and control.
In
for the Palestinian National Initiative regarding the aftermath of the
Gaza
was that more illegal Jewish settlers, more apartheid walls, and more
corruption in the PA ensued.
Dr. Mustafa Bargouthi, wrote, "Ninety percent of security violations in
must be disciplined; the rule of law and an independent judiciary must
be installed. [And] it is estimated that 30 percent of the 160,000 salaried
government employees do not attend work of any kind. This kind of
corruption and nepotism must be ended.’
On
including seventeen innocent children, and fourteen Israelis, including
two innocent children, were murdered. Two thousand Palestinians had
been arrested and 2,306 checkpoints imposed. 8,700 acres of Palestinian
land had been confiscated by the Israeli government and while the
Palestinians honored the cease-fire, they were attacked 394 times.
The so called disengagement from
Israeli government maintained controls and all access to
sea, and air. Bargouthi documented that only 25 of the over 150
settlements would be dismantled, and only 8,475 of over 436,000
settlers [less than 2 percent of settlers] were evacuated and 12,800
new settlers moved into the West Bank — 50 percent more settlers
than were evacuated." [2]
Reported by If Americans Knew by March 2008:
119 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 982
Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since
September 29, 2000
1,031 Israelis and at least 4,528 Palestinians have been
killed since
6,845 Israelis and 31,815 Palestinians have been injured
since
During Fiscal Year 2007, the
per day to
Palestinians have been targeted by none.
1 Israeli is being held prisoner by Palestinians, while
10,756 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by
0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and
18,147 Palestinian homes have been demolished by
since 1967
The Israeli unemployment rate is 9%, while the Palestinian
unemployment is estimated at 40%.
built on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have
any settlements on Israeli land. [3]
On
annual Forum on Human Rights where Nobel Peace Prize laureate
President Jimmy Carter stated, "The Bush administration's refusal
to accept the 2006 election victory of Hamas was "criminal" and that
Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate should have
been entitled to lead the Palestinian government.
When Hamas fighters routed Fatah in a violent takeover of the
Gaza Strip that preceding week, the split prompted Abbas to
dissolve the power-sharing government with his rivals in Hamasand
set up a Fatah-led administration to govern the
comprehended that the American-Israeli-European consensus to
reopen direct aid to the new government in the
deny the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, represented an
"effort to divide Palestinians into two peoples."
Empires throughout history have always
used the very same tactic.
Carter also observed the 2006 election in which Hamas won
42 percent of the popular vote and a majority of parliamentary seats
and affirmed that the election was "orderly and fair" and that
Hamas triumphed, because it was "shrewd in selecting candidates,"
whereas Fatah was divided and corrupt and ran multiple candidates
for single seats.
Carter also said the US and Israel, with European Union acquiescence,
sought to subvert the outcome by shunning Hamas in order to assist
Abbas in keeping the reins of political and military power and, "That
action was criminal. The
all the people in
compromise between Hamas and Fatah."
Carter also said, that the
Fatah-controlled security forces in
in hopes they would "conquer Hamas in
divide Palestinians into two peoples was a step in the wrong direction.
All efforts of the international community should be to reconcile the two,
but there was no effort from the outside to bring the two together.
On June 20, 2007, Omar Barghouti wrote: "When I saw some of the
images coming out of the infighting in Gaza last week, I suppressed
my anguish and steaming anger, recalling the wise, almost prophetic,
words of the great Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, who wrote, 'The
central problem is this: How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic
beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?...The
pedagogy of the oppressed is an instrument for their critical discovery
that both they and their oppressors are manifestations of dehumanization.'
"There is no doubt that a faction within Fatah -- overtly funded, trained
and steered by the US and Israel -- is the primary suspect behind the
flare-up of this bloody internecine strife, which many observers view
as a thinly veiled attempt to destabilize Hamas's democratically-elected
government, coercing it into accepting Israeli dictates that it had so far
balked from.
"While the corruption, lawlessness, profiteering and even betrayal of
sections of Fatah have been known and well documented for some
time now, the brutal, reckless and in some cases criminal tactics used
by armed groups within Hamas were fresh reminders to neutral bystanders
who were willing to give the group the benefit of the doubt that it, too,
contains a strong, power-hungry faction that is eager to sacrifice principles
and human rights to reach its political objectives. Hamas cannot be
exonerated from the accusation that, by participating in the legislative
and municipal elections according to laws and parameters set by the
Oslo agreements, it has already contributed to legitimizing the products
of those agreements and forsaken its claim to being a resistance movement
that is primarily dedicated to realizing the main tenets of the Palestinian
national program of liberation and self-determination...
"In the short term, the political vacuum that will inevitably result from
the growing rift between Ramallah and
of the PA structures and remaining authority on the ground is most likely
to be filled by an all-out Israeli reoccupation of the entire
and
peace process, which actually collapsed long ago under the weight of
by the International Court of Justice -- and intricate apparatus of oppression
and humiliation of the Palestinians under its control." [4]
Whether Rose is guilty of any "bad bad journalism" [Bill O'Reilly] and
Dahlan is just trying to cover his ass, Carter's and Barghouti's voice
were not the only ones raised before the leaked "End of Mission Report"
by UN Middle East envoy, Alvaro de Soto came out.
After 25 years at the UN, Alvaro
exposed American pressure that he argued damaged the impartiality of
the UN's peace making efforts. In Mr
he delivered a devastating criticism of both Israelis and Palestinians,
as well as the international community.
"The Quartet of Middle East negotiators - the UN, the
Map, the current framework for peace talks, he argues. Over
the past two years, the Quartet has gradually lost its impartiality.
"The fact is that even-handedness has been pummeled into
submission in an unprecedented way since the beginning
of 2007," he writes. [5]
He blamed overwhelming influence exerted by the
"ensuing tendency toward self-censorship" within the UN when it
came to criticism of
"At almost every juncture a premium is put on good relations
with the
I have no problem with either goal but I do have a problem with
self-delusion," he writes. "Forgetting our ability to influence the
Palestinian scene in the hope that it keeps open doors to
trade our Ace for a Joker."[IBID]
in 2006, it sought to form a broad coalition government with
moderate rivals, including Fatah. But the
De Soto wrote, "We were told that the US was against any
'blurring' of the line dividing Hamas from those Palestinian political
forces committed to the two-state solution…There is a seeming
reflex, in any given situation where the UN is to take a position, to
ask first how Israel or Washington will react rather than what is the
right position to take."[IBID]
De Soto opposed the international boycott placed on the
Palestinian government after Hamas was democratically elected
and argued that it was wrong to use pressure and isolation
alone, and proposed an open dialogue with Hamas as equals
in the process towards peace which requires justice; equal
human rights for all and that all states and nations would uphold
international law.
But, what he came up against was a
"heavy barrage" from US officials.
The boycott of Hamas and the siege and blockade of
in gravely serious damage to the Palestinian economy and has resulted
in promoting militant radicalism, for hopeless people will vent their
frustrations and violence is the way chosen by of the most hopeless.
Clear thinking people condemn all violence as they also comprehend
that
An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth violent retaliation only begets more
violence and the USA and Israeli politicians need to wake up and realize
that, season after season, they are reaping what they indeed sow, for
they are the ones arrogantly and systematically perpetuating the violence
and repression cycle to the point of self-propel.
ONLY by seeing the other as a human being who desires what
every human being has a RIGHT to; for it is self evident to right
thinking people "That all men are created equal; that they are
endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that,
among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and
that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;
and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it." -
July 4, 1776
percent of the Palestinian territories are under the boot of the Israeli
Occupying Forces and the ethnocracy of
by
This civilian journalist wonders what's it going to take to wake up
the international community to the facts on the ground that the
corruption in the PA government and hot tempers from those under
occupation are a powder keg that’s getting ready to blow up.
This civilian journalist wonders what it is going to take to wake the
world up to the fact that most of our problems with radical Islamist
fundamentalist militants lead us back to the conflict in
Palestine
presidential candidates and corporate media on this topic!
All roads do indeed lead to Jerusalem and as a woman of hope
[-but not in my USA elected officials-] I contend that the International
Community [-if only they get their act together!] and insist in unity to
the upholding of the gold standard of international law as the rule
of law all we the people of the world honor and uphold; will we
ever change the world as we now know it; into a world of sister
and brotherhood.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Law
[and the Sermon on the Mount!] are the way to lead our dysfunctional
world to the reconciliation of all nations and states.
This civilian journalist hopes and prays that the misery inflicted upon
our sisters and brothers in Israel and Palestine- the so called Holy
Land- the cradle of civilization will indeed begat the birth pangs of a
new Middle East; a new America, and a new world, and Common
Sense tells us that "the world is [our] country, all mankind are
[our] brethren, and to do good [should be our] religion."-Tom Paine
Blind allegiance to the Israeli government has allowed America's
'best friend' in the world to become a big bully and if we truly love
our friend we will rise up and tell our friend they have crossed the
line of common sense and the time is now to WAKE UP and
reconcile with the 'enemy' for only then do we 'have it in our
power to begin the world again."-Tom Paine
This civilian journalist reiterates and persists to contends in
a slight paraphrase of Mahatma Gandhi, what difference
does it make to the dead, the orphans, the refugees,
the homeless, the voiceless the occupied and oppressed
whether the mad violent destruction is wrought under
the name of totalitarianism, Islam, Zionism, Christianity
or the holy name of security and democracy?
1. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/
2008/04/gaza200804?printable=true¤tPage=all
2. Palestinian National initiative
Report of
KEEP HOPE ALIVE, by Eileen Fleming
3. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
4. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7043.shtml
5. http://image.guardian.co.uk/sysfiles/Guardian
/documents/2007/06/12/DeSotoReport.pdf
Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author KEEP HOPE ALIVE and
Memoirs of a Nice Irish American Girl's'
Life in Occupied Territory, Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu"
and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author KEEP HOPE ALIVE and
Memoirs of a Nice Irish American Girl's'
Life in Occupied Territory, Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu"
and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"
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