Afshin Rattansi grills Fatah

Afshin Rattansi live from Tehran interviews Fatah in Gaza about why Mahmoud Abbas changed his mind after Secretary of State Rice's visit to the Middle East and a few hours after saying he wouldn't negotiate with Israelis, then said he would.
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Published on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 by The Guardian/UK
Gaza: To Blame the Victims for This Killing Spree Defies Both Morality and Sense
by Seumas Milne
The attempt by western politicians and media to present this week's carnage in the Gaza Strip as a legitimate act of Israeli self-defence - or at best the latest phase of a wearisome conflict between two somehow equivalent sides - has reached Alice-in-Wonderland proportions. Since Israel's deputy defence minister, Matan Vilnai, issued his chilling warning last week that Palestinians faced a "holocaust" if they continued to fire home-made rockets into Israel, the balance sheet of suffering has become ever clearer. More than 120 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces in the past week, of whom one in five were children and more than half were civilians, according to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. During the same period, three Israelis were killed, two of whom were soldiers taking part in the attacks.

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