----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin Gandall" <marvgandall at videotron.ca> To: "LBO-Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] "Second liberation of Gaza."
>> I also can't see Palestinian life improving much in areas still under
>> Fatah
>> rule. And given Fatah's open collaboration with Israel, their reputation
>> looks unlikely to get any better. I suppose that in the 'Arab street'
>> growing popular cynicism towards any kind of liberation politics might be
>> one outcome. The more religious tendencies however seem to gain most from
>> such desperate situations.
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> It's Israel which pretty much controls events. It has the latitude to
> relax
> controls and to allow aid to come in from the outside without jeopardizing
> its suzerainty over the Palestinians. If the Palestinians are relieved of
> the long delays and daily humiliation at checkpoints and have access to
> jobs, I think they'd disengage out of exhaustion, if nothing else, and
> would
> tolerate Fatah corruption and subservience.
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> The question is whether the Israeli leadership and public feel the need to
> make any moves at all after the South Lebanon and Gaza withdrawals did not
> turn out as planned. But there may now be greater pressure on Israel to
> throw Abbas some bones with Hamas no longer part of the PA government. And
> the underlying imperative to grant the Palestinians some form of truncated
> statehood if only to head off the development of a movement for a
> non-denominational unitary state encompassing Israel and the occupied
> territories is always present.
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