EXERPT: Tel Aviv's invasion of Gaza is the natural result of its policy of subverting the January 2006 electoral victory of Hamas over Fatah. Tel Aviv's refusal to recognize the election it had itself supported led to Palestinian civil conflict, the split between Fatah running the West Bank with Hamas running Gaza, a year of Israeli economic warfare against Gaza, and now to war.
TEXT: Tel Aviv's invasion of Gaza is the natural result of its policy of subverting the January 2006 electoral victory of Hamas over Fatah. Much will be said about the invasion, not the least about the danger of this little war turning into a very big war with Iran. (Wars have a way of controlling the combatants.) Vast amounts of disinformation will also be spewed out. But the essential fact to remember during all the discussion is that Tel Aviv set itself up for this when it refused to accept the results of its own policy of supporting a democratic election in Palestine.
The 2006 election brought Hamas into the Western political process. It might have been a turning point if Tel Aviv had allowed Hamas to participate effectively in that process. Tel Aviv had many cards in its pocket. Tel Aviv had military control of its Palestinian colony, it controlled Palestinian taxes, it controlled Palestinian access to the world.
Tel Aviv's decision to refuse to recognize the election it had itself supported led to Palestinian civil conflict, the split between Fatah running the West Bank with Hamas running Gaza, a year of Israeli economic warfare against Gaza, and now, the logic of a policy of force rolling inexorably, to war.
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