Hamas was elected by the Palestinians. Immediately after the legit election, Palestine is slammed with sanctions by the international comunity in hopes to turn the Palestinians on Hamas, which didn't work. With the Hamas and Fatah fighting, Hamas finally decided to form a coalition between Fatah and Hamas to prevent a civil war in Palestine. While the coalition is in place, Israel is arming the Fatah for whatever reason, maybe a military coup. Recently, even though Israel had been arming the Fatah, Hamas easily kicked out the Fatah probably to prevent a potential Fatah coup. Abbas then safe in the West Bank, declared a state of emergency and doesn't recognize Fatah or Hamas, even though he isn't the prime minister.
Anyways, now the story is being played out as if Hamas is a terrorist group when in actuality Abbas has illegally crowned himself king, which the U.S. and Israel are backing by getting rid of sanctions for only the West Bank, and not Gaza which is controlled by Hamas.
2007-06-19
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