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Now the direct killing of Palestinians has practically ended, the next stage will be the slow starvation of Gaza due to Hamas' policies.
I just hope the violence doesn't spread to the West Bank.
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Er, we're deliberately starving them, aren't we? In revenge for them daring to vote for someone we don't like, aid was cut off. We're also, of course, helping Fatah fighters, in our normal wonderful democratic way. Send no food, just guns, that'll sort out the starvation and violence, no sweat. Er.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...700419_pf.html
Did I forget to mention that Hamas started from an Israeli idea gone horribly wrong (to give Arafat a headache, I suspect)? See Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, US support for IRA, death squads, those recent nutters in Lebanon etc. It's never a good idea to arm lunatics with a grievance, but we never learn. Shame, really, forty years ago Israel used to be quite a bright place. Ruthless, but bright.
* (We being USA/UK/Israel, in this case, with the EU helping out)