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Date: June 16, 2007 8:31:42 PM PDT
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Subject: Fwd: Bush Regime Verdict on Palestinian Bloodletting: "I
Like This Violence"
Here's David Welch, the Bush Administration's Ass't Sec'y of
State for Near Eastern Affairs [from p. 21 of a report leaked by
Alvaro de Soto, just-retired U.N. coordinator for the Middle East]:
"...the U.S. clearly pushed for a confrontation between Fateh
and Hamas -- so much that the U.S. envoy [David Welch] declared
twice in an envoys' meeting in Washington how much 'I like this
violence', referring to the near-civil war erupting in Gaza in
which civilians were being regularly killed and injured -- 'it
means some Palestinians are resisting Hamas'."
See what's free at AOL.com.
From: "Jim S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 16, 2007 5:04:08 PM PDT
Subject: Bush Regime Verdict on Palestinian Bloodletting: "I Like
This Violence"
http://www.ichblog.eu/text/content/view/1700/1/ *Bush Regime
Verdict on Palestinian Bloodletting: "I Like This Violence"*
By Chris Floyd
06/15/07
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001561.html Jonathan
Schwarz finds the smoking guns confirming that the bloody civil war
now tearing the Palestinians apart has been the aim of the Bush
Administration's Middle East policy since Hamas won the free,
democratic elections there in January 2006. As we wrote at Empire
Burlesque just a few days ago: "Everything They Say About Promoting
Democracy Is, And Always Has Been, A Damnable Lie."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/
Everything_They_Say_About_Promoting_Democracy_Is%
2C_And_Always_Has_Been%2C_A_Damnable_Lie/
"ICH" -- Excerpts from Jon's piece (Go to his original post for the
extensive links):
Here's David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern
Affairs and U.S. Envoy to the Middle East, speaking in private
several weeks before Rice. This appears on p.21 of the leaked
report (pdf) by Alvaro de Soto, just-retired U.N. coordinator for
the Middle East (via Paul Woodward at War in Context):
"...the U.S. clearly pushed for a confrontation between Fateh
and Hamas -- so much so that, a week before Mecca, the U.S. envoy
declared twice in an envoys meeting in Washington how much 'I like
this violence', referring to the near-civil war that was erupting
in Gaza in which civilians were being regularly killed and injured,
because 'it means that other Palestinians are resisting Hamas'."
EARLIER: From an Atlantic profile of Condoleezza Rice (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. And from Conflicts
Forum last January:
"Deputy National Security Advisor, Elliott Abrams -- who
Newsweek recently described as "the last neocon standing" -- has
had it about for some months now that the U.S. is not only not
interested in dealing with Hamas, it is working to ensure its
failure. In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas elections, last
January [2006], Abrams greeted a group of Palestinian businessmen
in his White House office with talk of a 'hard coup' against the
newly-elected Hamas government -- the violent overthrow of their
leadership with arms supplied by the United States. While the
businessmen were shocked, Abrams was adamant -- the U.S. had to
support Fatah with guns, ammunition and training, so that they
could fight Hamas for control of the Palestinian government..."
The Abrams program was initially conceived in February of 2006 by a
group of White House officials who wanted to shape a coherent and
tough response to the Hamas electoral victory of January... Since
at least August [2006], Rice, Abrams, and U.S. envoy David Welch
have been its primary advocates and the program has been subsumed
as a "part of the State Department's Middle East initiative."
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