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Headlines : Human Rights

Summary:

Hamas’ victory in Palestine’s 2006 election did not suit the government of Israel, which has since then contrived to keep the Occupied Territories deprived of the necessities for a reasonable existence. However, last week’s battles between Hamas and Fatah suited Olmert and co. admirably: Palestinians killing each other, divided and effectively impotent. Opponents of Hamas see new elections as the only escape from the impasse.

Meanwhile Israel gives a further twist to the screw on the benighted Palestinians:

“We should simply increase the isolation of Gaza,” Infrastructure Minister Ben-Eliezer told Israel’s Army Radio. “I want to stop everything until we understand what is going on there.”

Full marks to those governments offering material, financial and moral support to a state bent on undermining a neighboring democracy through economic strangulation.

[Posted By Watson]

By Unattributed
Republished from Reuters

Regime change via economic strangulation

An Israeli energy company said it cut back fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, increasing pressure on Islamist Hamas after it took control of the impoverished territory.

“We are still providing fuel for Gaza power stations, but not for smaller gas stations,” said a spokeswoman for Dor Alon, one of Israel’s largest fuel companies and a major Gaza supplier.

Israel has said it hopes to isolate Gaza after Hamas ousted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s secular Fatah faction and took control of the coastal strip.

The Western-backed Abbas was set to swear in an emergency cabinet on Sunday after he sacked a three-month-old unity government he formed with Hamas, which won Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006.

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