by Ted Belman
Did the US order Fatah to take a dive? I think so. Amir Taheri writing in NY POST, Can Hamas actually Rule? advises
[..] Fatah had some 60,000 armed men in Gaza, a strip of land covering some 65
square miles. It also had heavy cannons and rocket-propelled grenades, which Hamas lacked. Yet even Fatah?s four chief bases of al-Hawa, al-Muntadam, Sarayah
and al-Safineh, claimed to be impregnable, fell in just a few hours, as their
defenders fled.
So what happened? After all, the CIA had been training these forces for years. Taheri suggests a rationale
If Israel, the West Bank, the Europeans and the United Nations let Hamas stew in
its juices in Gaza, the Islamist movement might well collapse under the weight of the strip's economic problems and social tensions.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Did the US order Fatah to take a dive?
2) IsraPundit
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