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America in the Middle East

Betrayal! ? Washington will work with Hamas


By Stan Goodenough
September 21, 2006

The United States has once more done an about-face and is now willing to work with a Palestinian Authority containing a strong Hamas component ? members of the terror group responsible for the murders of hundreds of Israelis, and deeply devoted to the total destruction of the Jewish state.

Israeli officials went into shock Wednesday, after the Bush administration announced that it will, after all, go along with the other three members of the self-styled Quartet and support the establishment of a ?national unity government? in the PA.

Former foreign minister Silvan Shalom said the American decision, which spelled the end of Hamas? isolation by the international community, had been made behind Israel?s back and amounted to a ?political collapse.? Other government leaders were said to be ?surprised and worried? by the news.

Nearly half of the lawmakers in the new ?national unity? PA would be Hamas members. Most of the others would be representatives of the Fatah wing of the PLO ? another major terrorist organization whose crimes against the Jewish people have been swept under the carpet by a world increasingly determined to ensure that its vision for peace takes root in the Middle East ? whatever the cost.

The effort to conceive a PA unity government has been recognized almost universally as a ploy providing pro-Palestinian nations with the pretext they are looking for to resume funding the Palestinian Arabs.

International financial support was restricted last January after those ?Palestinians? voted overwhelmingly for a Hamas-led government.

When a beleaguered PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently revealed his plan to dissolve and restructure the PA with fewer Hamas individuals, the rest of the Quartet ? the United Nations, the European Union and Russia ? eagerly embraced the idea.

But Washington, the primary sponsor of the ?peace process,? initially refused to go along with the charade, bringing some relief to an increasingly dismayed Israel.

Now, however, the US appears to have stabbed its Middle East ally in the back, and in the process dealt a blow to its own war on terror by extending political recognition to the very type of organization responsible for the 9-11 attack on America.

And still US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ? the consummate diplomat ? denied what was blatantly obvious to observers everywhere, saying there had been no shift in her government?s policy.

She proceeded to ?explain,? however, that if there was going to be any move forward with the stalled land-for-peace process, then the ?Palestinian? government had to have international support.

That government?s hands may be saturated with Israeli blood, but the same American administration that just granted a visa to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ? another mortal enemy of Israel?s ? is now ready to do business with them.

As always, payment will be made in Jewish coin.

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