Palestinian Shell Game
Reader comment on item: Two Palestines, Anyone?

Submitted by Debbie (United States), Jul 17, 2007 at 16:26

I seem to recall getting an alert from Palestinian Media Watch regarding the terrorist Mickey Mouse Farfour as being from a Fatah television production on Al Aqsa Television - sponsored by Mahmoud Abbas. Suddenly, the Mickey Mouse became the "Hamas Terror Mouse."

It's also too convenient that Fatah was pushed out of Gaza to enter Judaea and Samaria by the thousands. Now, Hamas is fully controlling Gaza and Fatah is conveniently in full control in Judaea and Samaria. Doesn't this seem a bit too easy? And where is the foresight on the parts of Israel and America? Throwing money and weapons at Fatah because they're the "moderate" faction of Palestinian leadership?

My opinion - Hamas and Fatah are co-conspirators in a very deadly game and the West and Israel are being too shortsighted to see what is really going on. This recent move by Hamas to take over Gaza has only prompted more reaction to prop up Fatah in the West Bank, an area that was previously still under examination as to which parts of it might be relinquished by Israel. Now, it seems that Israel is all the more ready to pull out of the entirety of Judaea and Samaria, at America's urging. Hamas and Fatah both win. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what the real deal is here. And shame on Palestinian Media Watch for playing into this detrimental game that will ultimately cause Israel to suffer as a result.

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