The idea of a long hoped for unity deal between the Palestinian movements, Fatah and Hamas is an anathema to policy makers in Israel and Washington.
They prefer them to fight amongst themselves and kill each other.
Keeping the Palestinians divided has been a US objective ever since the West colluded with Israel in creating the Islamacist Hamas to compete with Yasser Arafat’s nationalist Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO.) Israel’s supporters slam Hamas for not recognizing Israel which, of course, refuses to recognize Hamas despite its victory in a democratic election,
Leave it to a liberal hawk like Martin Peretz, publisher of the New Republic who put the disunity doctrine into words back in 1982. He advised Israel to deliver Palestine a "lasting military defeat" that would "clarify to the Palestinians in the West Bank that their struggle for an independent state has suffered a setback of many years." Then "the Palestinians will be turned into just another crushed nation, like the Kurds or the Afghans," and the Palestinian problem - which "is beginning to be boring" - will be resolved."
“Crushed nations” are what we seem to like, especially when they become dependant on us and march to our trumpets.
