The stunning military victory by the Palestinian Hamas movement over the rival Fatah organization in the Gaza Strip last week was a strike against imperialism in the Middle East.
The US and its allies have described the Islamist group Hamas’s driving out of Fatah from Gaza as a “military coup” aimed at creating a “mini Taliban state”.
It is nothing of the sort. Hamas is the democratically elected Palestinian government. Its victory last week stopped an attempted military takeover sponsored by the US and its Israeli and Egyptian allies.
George Bush rushed to embrace the “Fatah moderates” in “the battle with extremism”.
Yet it is Bush who has worked hardest to strip Fatah of any credibility among the Palestinians by failing to deliver even the smallest concession in return for its recognition of Israel.
The showdown came last week after the attempted assassination of Hamas prime minister Ismail Hanaiya.
Angry Hamas fighters moved to crush what they considered to be the beginning of an Egyptian-inspired coup. Abandoned by its supporters, Fatah crumbled.
Hundreds of its fighters surrendered or walked away from the battle. Others fled across the border into Egypt.
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Thousands took to the streets of Gaza to denounce Abu Mazen’s speech in Ramallah yesterday.
Meanwhile financial and political support from the Arab regimes, Israel, US, Canada, EU is flocking in, to shower the Fatah traitors in the West Bank and strangle the Islamic resistance movement Hamas in Gaza.
America’s Mubarak ordered his ambassador to relocate from Gaza to Ramallah, and will be hosting a summit next week in Sharm, to be attended by both Olmert and Abu Mazen, to boost the latter’s coup against Hamas.
More on the Wal-Mart-Mansoura-España link
I received a query from a reader asking for more details about the Wal-Mart-Mansoura-España connection.
According to a source at Mansoura-España, Wal-Mart was a client from at least 2003 to 2006. There are no figures available yet, but Wal-Mart orders, according to the source, used to be given to Misr Garments Company and the Giza Spinning and Weaving Company, which in turn used to subcontract the Mansoura-España for the job. Wal-Mart used to send US “inspectors” to the Mansoura-España to monitor “quality,” which means Wal-Mart was well aware of the abusive working conditions of the (largely female) labor force in the Talkha factory. The last shipment of shirts sent out from the factory to Wal-Mart was in 2006. There is no exact date available yet, but I’m told the factory worked on this shipment roughly from Feb to June 2006.