From The Ashes Of Gaza – Tariq Ali
January 4, 2009, 12:34 pm
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Ankara, Assualt on Gaza, Bush, China, Egypt, European Union, Fatah, fundamentalism, Gaza, gaza Strip, General Shlomo Gazit, Geneva, Hamas, IDF, Islamic Jihad, Islamists, Ismail Abu Shanab, Israel, Israeli Military Intelligence, Lebanon, London Review of Books, Mubarak dictatorship, Muslim communitites, NATO, Neve Gordon, Obama, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Palestine Authority, Palestinian Ghettoes, Palestinians, PLO, Russia, Sara Roy, Taba, UN Security Council, Washington
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Ankara, Assualt on Gaza, Bush, China, Egypt, European Union, Fatah, fundamentalism, Gaza, gaza Strip, General Shlomo Gazit, Geneva, Hamas, IDF, Islamic Jihad, Islamists, Ismail Abu Shanab, Israel, Israeli Military Intelligence, Lebanon, London Review of Books, Mubarak dictatorship, Muslim communitites, NATO, Neve Gordon, Obama, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Palestine Authority, Palestinian Ghettoes, Palestinians, PLO, Russia, Sara Roy, Taba, UN Security Council, Washington
Source: Guardian
( 31 December, 2008 ) — The assault on Gaza, planned over six months and executed with perfect timing, was designed largely, as Neve Gordon has rightly observed, to help the incumbent parties triumph in the forthcoming Israeli elections. The dead Palestinians are little more than election fodder in a cynical contest between the right and the far right in Israel. Washington and its EU allies, perfectly aware that Gaza was about to be assaulted, as in the case of Lebanon in 2006, sit back and watch.
Washington, as is its wont, blames the (more…)
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