Monday, January 22, 2007

Isreal 1-22-2007

22, January 2007 Isreal
It is the height of hypocrisy for the US and European powers to express outrage over the factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah when they have been instrumental in exacerbating tensions.  The US has shipped large supplies of weapons, via Egypt, to Fatah to be used against Hamas. This is another sad episode in our misguided foreign policy wherein we undermine the will of the Palestinians to elect their own government. Israel continues its theft of tax Palestinian Authority (PA) tax money causing wide spread unemployment.  Ironically, Abbas, now the favored PA president was vilified by Israel and the US prior to Hamas’s rise to power. Thus, the old ‘divide and rule’ strategy is once more being used to heap more misery on the hapless Palestinian. It is truly outrageous that we continue to borrow funds with accruing interest payments to support the colonial designs of Israel – another shocking example of the ’tail wagging the dog’ in driving our foreign policy. This will continue until the US public raises its collective voice in opposition to Israel’s apartheid policies. 

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