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To: steve harris who wrote (340589)	6/16/2007 2:16:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573889

Another screwup by Bush. How many more before he leaves in 2008? Can we ever forgive him Lebanon? "I like this violence...It means other Palestinians are resisting Hamas," said a U.S. official some months ago to Alvaro de Soto, the UN envoy to the Middle East, according to de Soto's confidential End of Mission Report, leaked to The Guardian newspaper last week. That certainly fits what we know about U.S. policy at the time, which was to block international cooperation with the shaky Palestinian coalition government including both Hamas and Fatah elements that had been cobbled together after a year's delay and to build up Fatah's militia for a showdown with Hamas. The showdown came last week in the Gaza Strip and Hamas has won it. In less than a week, at the cost of about 100 deaths, it has eliminated almost all Fatah strongholds in the Strip. So the question is: was the United States and its Israeli ally being naive in boycotting Hamas and backing Fatah or was their real goal all along to split the Palestinians?" hamiltonspectator.com