To hell with national unity if it means surrender to Israel

There is no doubt that the vast majority of Palestinians would like to see Fatah and Hamas patch up their differences. Needless to say, the violent rift between the two groups has inflicted immense damage to the Palestinian cause and induced Israel to carry out some of the most daring assaults against our people.

None the less, it would be a strategic mistake to restore national unity at any price. In real life, amputation of a hopelessly incurable limb is necessary to save the rest of the body. Similarly, when part of an apple is rotten, one has either to remove the bad part or throw the entire apple away.

In occupied Palestine, elections were organized in 2006 at US insistence, and in coordination with the occupying power, Israel.

However, when Palestinian Islamic nationalists, namely Hamas, won the elections, all the gates of hell opened loose in Washington D.C. and the capitals of Europe. The same reverberations hit the capitals of America’s puppet Arab tyrants who saw Hamas’s victory as a destabilizing factor that might seduce oppressed Arab masses to rise up for freedom and democracy. More