Vanity Fair: The Gaza Bombshell

From Vanity Fair: "Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. The plan was for forces led by [Mohammad] Dahlan, and armed with new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. (The State Department declined to comment.)"

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See the following articles from Electronic Intifada for more background:

• Overcoming the conspiracy against Palestine, Ali Abunimah (18 July 2007)
• Subverting democracy, Joseph Massad (4 July 2007)
• A setback for the Bush doctrine in Gaza, Ali Abunimah, (14 June 2007)
• Palestinian Pinochet Making His Move?, Tony Karon, (21 May 2007)
• The American proxy war in Gaza, Ali Abunimah (3 February 2007)
• Who is Mohammad Dahlan?, Arjan El Fassed (20 December 2006)