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One quibble - you let Hewitt's assertion that "Hamas brutally seized power" stand unchallenged; in fact, Hamas was demo-cratically elected in Gaza.
Understandable, considering the barrage of half-truths and lies which comprise the corporatist/zionist/tv preacher-duped line you were facing. Hard to counter everything.-- divadab
As usual, there are half-truths in much of what is said by both sides.
Actually, Hamas effectually seized power prior to the election and they did use brutal means to do so. They pre-emptively struck their Fatah opposition by force, after they learned that the US had encouraged and armed Fatah in order for Fatah to militarily strike Hamas and thus control the election. Hamas won the intra-Palestinian struggle for leadership only because Fatah was not sufficiently organized to be able to complete both politically and militarily within the timeline forced by the US.
The irony is that today, Hamas is probably using US supplied arms to fight Israel and there's a good chance that some of those arms have been utilized in the manufacture of those rockets which are striking Israeli civilians.
How many Americans (or anyone else who isn't up-to-speed on the machinations of our neocon friends realizes that we are arming both sides of this conflict?
I would suggest that there aren't many.
