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  • Un ancien directeur du Mossad écrit l’invraisemblable dans le New York Times: Who Threw Israel Under the Bus? (Efraim Halevy was the director of the Mossad from 1998 to 2002)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/opinion/who-threw-israel-under-the-bus.html

    In early 2006, the terrorist group Hamas ran candidates in the Palestinian legislative elections. Israel had been adamant that no leader could campaign with a gun in his belt; the Palestinian party Fatah opposed Hamas’s participation, too. But the White House would have none of this; it pushed Fatah to allow Hamas candidates to run, and pressured Israel into allowing voting for Hamas — even in parts of East Jerusalem.

    After Hamas won a clear majority, Washington sought to train Fatah forces to crush it militarily in the Gaza Strip. But Hamas pre-empted this scheme by taking control of Gaza in 2007, and the Palestinians have been ideologically and territorially divided ever since.