Divided it Falls - Palestine

September 2007
With Hamas accusing Fatah of using 'insurgency tactics' in Gaza, relations between the two factions are at a new low. Gaza is being strangled as both sides continue to blame and provoke the other.

Unaware they're being filmed, Hamas members in Gaza beat and arrest Fatah supporters. Over in the West Bank, a Hamas sympathiser displays his Fatah-inflicted bruises. "Both my hands were injured. It went on for days". There are now two rival Palestinian governments. Gaza's borders have been closed and an economic blockade imposed. At the children's hospital, patients are feeling the affect. They can no longer travel abroad for treatment and there are no drugs in Gaza to treat them. In contrast, in the West Bank, funding is flooding in. The US is anxious to show Palestinians they'll be rewarded for turning away from Hamas. But Hamas claims it only took over Gaza because America was helping Fatah overturn the election results. "Fatah was preparing for a coup in Gaza with the help and support of the American government". Surprisingly, Efraima Helevy, former director of Mossad, agrees. "They decided to take steps to undo the results of the election". If this was the plan, it backfired. There are now effectively two Palestines. And as Hamas and Fatah continue fighting, long suffering Gazans look on in despair.

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[thearabunity]

palestinian are one people the hell with fateh and hamas u are palestinian first

dont be played by zionism

[gazawee]

For excercising our right to choose Hamas, Israel and her allies punish us while supporting Fatah by supplying them with weapons and money..

Hamas is has been declared a terrorist organisation by those that have terrorised us for the last 60 years. They are labelled terrorists because they do not recognise 1. Israel right to Palestinian land and 2. The request to give up defending our people and the fight for justice. These are ideals the overwhelming majority of Palestinians support.

[NSilencer]

It's so easy to just say "Israeli attack - 9 dead" and make it sound bad. When most of the time the story behind is that it's an Israeli response to terrorist attacks in Israel, or just other targeted terrorists with murder on their hands- who purposely shoot rockets in highly populated areas knowing they are visible and probably bombed quite soon, getting civilians killed and hurt too.

[rizeq0886]

Israel is loving this while they shoot around rockets and propaganda..............

We must be smarter and try and help people in need and keep spreading the word about corrupt israel!!

[shawry86]

hamas are also starting to be corrupt....

[shawry86]

its the same in israeli society..lots of different groups hate each other and its for from united...so dont also be fooled

[Yaalah]

Thank you, oh noble warrior, for that powerful statement on behalf of the mighty Hamas!

Just one question, then: why does you profile info state that you're living comfortably in th UK?

[Yaalah]

"regain palestine"?

The region of Palestine was never controlled by the southern Syrians (now called 'Palestinians) who lived there.

The "dirty zionists" are very sad about this conflict of power, because it means the Palestinians have regressed deeper into their own dark-age than ever before -- making their own lives that much harder. This also means that finding them independent lives to lead (non-symbotically attached to the dirty Jews across the border) is that much harder now.

[Yaalah]

When the land was partitioned in '47, there was plenty to share for both the exiled European & Arab Jews together with the southern Syrians who are now called 'Palestinians'.

Therefore, your slanted analogy can only refer to that time: before this problem blew up into the present-day Arab-Israeli conflict. Now that Arabs have already waged wars on the inciting and misinformed premise that "the Jews have stoled our land", the tables are turned and the IDF is the defending side in this conflict.

[breena25]

Fatah has been and always will be liars. There just embarass that Hamas men will defend their land and people and will not be bullied by Israel. Hamas = freedom fighters. Fatah = corruption!!! They have no idea how many people worldwide now support Hamas for defending Gaza and brought attention to us how Israel blocked essential needs such as food, clean water, medicine , and fuel from entering Gaza. We saw terrorism coming from Israelis and Fatah supporting Israel.