Palestinian Factions Unite
Religions unite in destruction
Palestinian ID
Unite To Help Bihar Flood Victims
The Arab People Unite Like Never Before
Livability and Sustainability in The Unite States
The schism between Fatah and Hamas, the dominant Palestinian factions, has long be exacerbated by foreign powers, including Israel. The roots of the rivalry are indigenous to the Palestinians, and stem partly from the ideological divergence and from Fatah's entitlement to power and its reluctance to cede control over the Palestinian Authority after it lost a 2006 election to Hamas. Fatah is also incredibly corrupt and thus was always susceptible to foreign manipulation through dollars and to Israeli schemes given the fact that many Fatah members are collaborators, and some even profiters, with the Israeli occupation.
Between the infighting between Palestinians in 2007 was a purely Israeli-American-Saudi plot. Hamas won the election and the United States responded by immediately condemning Palestinians for voting for what the US considers to be a terrorist organization, even though the US insisted that elections be scheduled and that Hamas be allowed to compete (even after being told by Fatah and Israel that Hamas would likely win if so). The Palestinians did not vote for Hamas out of affinity with its extremist Islamic fundamentalist ideology or because its "terrorist" credentials, but because Hamas was not corrupt unlike Fatah. And, incidentally, George Bush himself recognized this as he wrote in his recently published memoirs that he recognized Hamas' victory not as a Palestinian call for violence against Israel, but a call for a less corrupt and accountable government. And, yet, Bush does not explain why then he decided to pursue sanctions against the Palestinians for voting for Hamas if he understood their vote as reasonable, even justified.
But that's what the US Congress did and the administration was acquiescent, with many administration officials strongly supporting the Israel lobby-manufactured measure. But sanctions weren't enough. So administration officials plotted a coup against the democratically elected government of Fatah. When Hamas caught wind of it, it counterattacked and with violence ensuing between Palestinians, a administration official (likely assistant secretary of the Near East David Welsh) actually boasted TWICE "I like this violence." But the coup backfired as Hamas was more skilled than Fatah and Fatah was rooted out of Gaza and thus leading to the current divisions between Palestinians in the West Bank under Fatah and Palestinians in Gaza under Hamas, with both victims of ongoing Israeli occupation, crimes and colonialism.
Thus divisions were played by America, Israel and Saudi Arabia for their own cynical ends to the determent of the Palestinian cause. Whatever role foreigners played, it was always a Palestinian problem to solve.
Finally, it appears that today a reconciliation has been reached for a unity government and general elections to follow. A united Palestine is always stronger, and hopefully this will augur well for the Palestinian resistance.
