This is a situation entirely of our own making, the UN's De Soto Report, published (leaked) the other day makes it quite clear too
Hamas won the elections, a clear victory
The West decided (USA and Europe too), that this was unacceptable and closed off all possible money streams to Palestine
Even money that was legally theirs
We squeezed and squeezed and squeezed
Meanwhile Israel arrested elected officials, time and again.
When you put that much pressure on people who cannot get away from it,
add grinding poverty and desperation of a situation that looks like it will only get worse, never better...
something's going to give.
It always goes to a further extreme, eh
Never to centre.
Pressure will do that
I think, this is the end of Fatah.
We had an opportunity after the elections, we did not take it.
Analysts warned of this.
It's been said before, the road to peace in the middle east runs through Palestine.
It's just been set back quite a bit. Again.
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