Fatah Isn't the Answer - regional autonomy is

Wall Street Journal/IMRA ^ | 6-20-07 | MICHAEL OREN

[SJackson]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118230210250741414.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

America and its Middle Eastern allies have every reason to panic. The green flags of Hamas are furling over Gaza and the al-Fatah forces trained and financed by the United States have ignominiously fled. Fears are rife that Iranian-backed and Syrian-hosted terror will next achieve dominance over the West Bank and proceed to undermine the pro-Western governments of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf.

To avert this catastrophe, the U.S. has joined with the Israelis and the Europeans in resuming the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars in financial aid to the Palestinian Authority under the leadership of its Fatah president, Mahmoud Abbas, and accelerating talks for the establishment of a West Bank Palestinian state. The goal is to provide Palestinians with an affluent, secular and peaceful alternative to Hamas, and persuade Gazans to return to the Fatah fold. But the policy ignores every lesson of the abortive peace process to date as well as Fatah's monumental corruption, jihadism and militancy. Indeed, any sovereign edifice built on the rotten foundations of the Palestinian Authority is doomed to implode, enhancing, rather than diminishing, Hamas's influence.

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[claudiustg]

The fault is not in our stars; it is in our policy.

[onedoug]

There is no “palestine” nor are there any so-called “pelestinians” but for various conglomerations of islamist arabs that unless preferably killed should be kicked out of Israel en masse.