U.S. Deplores Palestine Violence (Sure They Do)

Tweet Tiny Revolution has the goods on the machinations of the US gov't in fomenting the violence in Palestine. The article points out the hypocracy of the US protestations against the violence and then goes on to document the actual behind-the-scenes work Elliott Abrams and Condi Rice have been doing. The whole article is here (via Palestinian Pundit) http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001561.html

"EARLIER: From a June profile of Condoleezza Rice in the Atlantic (sub. req.):

"In the fall of 2005, as part of a new push for democracy in the Middle East, Rice insisted that legislative elections be held in the Palestinian territories...To Rice’s surprise, the elections in January 2006 were won by Hamas...

Eager to reverse the results of the election, Rice decided on
a new plan of action that resulted in fighting in the streets
of Gaza between Hamas and Fatah gunmen. The plan,
which she developed after speaking to President Bush, was to
put pressure on the Hamas government by providing the
Palestinian security forces loyal to Abbas with training,
intelligence, and large shipments of supplies and new
weapons, paid for by the United States and by
Saudi Arabia. The hope was that Hamas, faced with a
well-armed, well-trained force of Fatah fighters,
might be cowed into moderating its positions or
relinquishing the power it had won through elections.
Alternatively, Hamas might be pressured into an
escalating series of gun battles, in which case Abbas,
as head of the Palestinian security forces, would have
an excuse to crush Hamas by force...

Hamas won the clashes, which left more than 140
Palestinians dead, and the Hamas government
remained in power.