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.
Around 100 Fatah officials flee to Egypt
From AP:
Close to 100 Palestinian officials from the moderate Fatah group of President Mahmoud Abbas crossed into Egypt from the Gaza Strip in the early hours Friday, Egyptian police said.
Hours later, the Egyptian security delegation in Gaza also returned to Egypt after failing in its mediation efforts between the warring Palestinian factions, said an official at the Rafah border crossing.
The Egyptian border official said the delegation chief, Col. Burhan Hamad, and five other members were heading to Cairo.
Fleeing aboard a fishing boat on the Mediterranean sea, 97 senior members of Fatah’s security and administrative apparatus arrived in the Egyptian port of Arish hours after fighters from the militant Hamas group took control of Gaza, an Egyptian security official in Arish said.
The retreating Fatah members were transferred to camps affiliated to Egypt’s security forces, a police official in Cairo confirmed.
Flee you fucking cowards! Run away to Egypt where Mubarak’s Gestapo, your disappointed mentors, are waiting… Down with Fatah! Down with Dahlah!
I love the way AP is covering the events. Abbas’s Fatah are “moderates”?!!! Moderates!!!?! This reminds me of how the wires just love referring to Mubarak and Abdullah of Jordan, both bloody criminal dictators, as “moderates.” But after all, we know the barometer of “moderation” for AP and the other western news outlets is always how brown-nosed the Arab ruler is when he deals with Washington.