What Price a Retirement Made in Hebron? Provoking Civil War in the Occupied Territories

So much for DEMOCRACY, IT IS JUST A WORD THEY LIKE TO PUT OUT THERE.

ARTHUR NESLEN, CounterPunch

So it's official. Britain is no longer simply boycotting a democratically elected Palestinian government. Following Tony Blair's visit, it is committing millions of pounds to Fatah militias that wish to overthrow it. Naturally enough, Blair's foreign policy initiative came two weeks after the US reportedly did the same thing, sending a shipment of 6,000 assault rifles to Fatah's elite Force 17 unit. In Israel, the far right is already working itself into a predictable lather about the Jihadist blowback that could follow the CIA's training of Force 17. Gazan civilians could be forgiven for assuming that the US and UK were preparing a proxy war for their neighbourhood...

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