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 08:12:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
With the state of emergency declared by Abbas, will Israel or the U.S. get militarily involved in Palestine if Hezbollah gets involved?
Orginally with the Lebanon war, the reason Hezbollah got involved was because of Israel's seige on Palestine. Basically, Hezbollah was trying to help Hamas by using kidnapped soldiers as leverage. It didn't work because they didn't expect Israel to be too insane and attack, which Hezbollah for obvious reasons had no choice be to retaliate.
2007-06-19 08:12:32 · update #1
You're not wrong about that; what Abbas did violates the Palestinian Basic Law and is completely illegimate. The president can dismiss the Cabinet, but without the specter of either upcoming elections or an eventual re-instatement, he has no right to install a Prime Minister on his own rite.
Anyway, both the US and Israel are merely working in accordance with their own state interests -- no one's looking for any sort of takeover though, I mean, come on! There is a rift within the Palestinian people that they are looking to exploit (not necessarily in the ominous, Machivellian sense) in order to get back to some kind of negotiation process for an Israeli West Bank withdrawal. I have yet to hear either President declare the Hamas government illegitimate as an institution -- and I am being VERY literal here -- just illegitimate as a recipient of international aid and as a partner for negotiations (due to its unequivocal support for terrorist activity). Hopefully, this crisis can be resolved by the will of the people, by converging on an agenda and restoring order to the Palestinian territories.
2007-06-19 08:16:49 · answer #1 · answered by gallo 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It is sad that it is beyond the mental ability of Leftists and other anti-American types to even consider the possibility that people in other nations, particularly Third World nations, could formulate opinions and policy decisions on their own via an analysis of their situations as they see it. To you lot, whenever something occurs in the world that benefits the US, it is automatically assumed that it must be the result of advanced US planning. People in other nations are simply incapable of independent thought. Yet when events in other nations have a negative effect on the US or US interests, it is clear that the people are simply acting in their own best interests. That’s a very convenient and tendentious way of view world events then is it. How elitist and condescending of you.
This reactionary language in accusing others of being “agents” or “puppets” of the US was an invention of the GPU/KGB and was used against both the British and US before and during the Cold War. It’s nice to know that basic standard lexicon of Soviet propagandists has at least survived over the years.
I would suggest you step away from the Noam Chomsky try thinking for yourself.
2007-06-19 09:26:38 · answer #2 · answered by flightleader 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Doesn't look too covert to me. A number of nations, including the US, have been giving aid to the Palestinian Authority since it's inception. Israel also gives it a share of tax proceeds. When Hamas won the election, both those sources of income were interrupted. Now that Abbas has disolved that elected government and taken control, the money is being released.
Hamas, of couse /is/ a terrorist group. It's just a terrorist group with the stamp of aproval of the majority of Palestinians.
2007-06-19 08:19:14 · answer #3 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
yes. i never thought i would see the day Israel would support the party of Arafat. At the same time they are opposing Hamas,the group Israel helped form to oppose Arafats control.
2007-06-19 08:27:06 · answer #4 · answered by here to help 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
yeah those pesky zionists control the world man! everyone is a puppet of those zionists!
yeah man!
i mean the phillipines, indonesia, turkey, iraq, jordan, syria, lebanon, pakistan, india, chechnya, afghanistan, oman, morroco etc...all those nations where bombs go off by a certain religion are all controlled by a nation the size of rhode island with a population of 6 million people!
now that's power and control baby!!!
got any more psychotic issues to address?
2007-06-19 08:24:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
What if the Palestinian people were finally able to live in peace with Abbas and build up their country instead of blowing themselves up?
That would suck for you.
2007-06-19 08:16:42 · answer #6 · answered by tttplttttt 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
so Hamas decides to purge Fatah..and it becomes a covert American plot...real nice..
The best thing anyone could do to Palestine..is pave it...
2007-06-19 08:27:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
hardly
2007-06-19 08:19:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋