Leaked Documents Reveal 'US Plot against Hamas" by carolena

1) Leaked Documents Reveal ‘US Plot against Hamas’, http://www.palestinechronicle.com/ , 3/4/08

2) Palestinian news reporters have come to the conclusion of blaming the United States for the removal of power of Hamas. (Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya) Hamas is a governmental faction or party in the Palestinian governement which was elected Parlament of Palestinian authority in 2006. They are well known for their infamous bombers and planned attacks in Israel. Each side of view point (either for or agaisnt Hamas) has taken a toll in their fair share of explaining themselves as well as destroying and oppressing their competitor. Khaled Meshaal, a former Hamas leader argues with U.S secretary of state Rice, over each country’s purposes and plans for Hamas. Meshaal blames the U.S. for secretly trying to get Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and later setting up operations to fund Fatah fighters to try to exile Hamas. Rice on the contrary returns with a final statement of how dangerous Hamas is. Some secure documents have accidently slipped showing evidence of U.S. enforcemnt of the removal or hopeful change of government from Hamas. President Abbas paid no attention to the warning and tried to tie in Hamas to his government in order to prompt an end to sectional fighting. Unfortuantly, neither Abbas nor the U.S. has given any new news to be heard from.

3) This article relates to the A.P. World Hisroty theme State-building, expansion, and conflict because it has to do with two government confrontations and the forming or experimenting of a new unified government between Abbas and Hamas.

4) The conflicts in this article relate to the obvious and evident happenings of 9/11 and the U.S.’s first full involvement to Palestinian government. It also relates to the centuries old issue of the schism in Islam and how the two sects cause so much strife.

5) The author of this article is an insider and Palestinian man which means he’s also muslim. He seems to not necessarily go straight for the U.S. thoughts but also doesn’t seem to be too supportive of the Hamas ideas.

6) The article portrays many affirmative sights of an impact on the author and related readers to the context. Most of the shifted viewpoint comes from the two main sources of arguments: Rice and Meshaal. Rice bulges out with a firm statement when he says, “It is very clear that Hamas is being armed. And it is very clear that they are being armed in part by the Iranians.” Rice’s purposes to impose such strong words based on perspective is to try to convince his readers and followers that the U.S. must plan to destroy Hamas and he wants us to believe its unfavorably strong destruction to be best known to keep us against it. Meshaal also takes a fair share in speaking with emotion and not necessarily facts. He states, “Everyone knows the origins of the Israeli weapons, it’s American made while our men are using very simple homemade arms,” to justify the actions taken by Hamas and to get readers to agree they aren’t that bad.

7) One viewpoint that would be beneficial to the article would possibly be of a Palestinian diplomat who was against the Hamas. This way they’d share a fair opinion because they probably wouldn’t prefer the Hamas over the United States or vise versa.

8) Personally, this article disgusts me how the U.S. has stooped so low as to remove a complete government group by using help from their untrusting ally or even a considerable enemy. I’d think we’d be perhaps a little wiser than that. I also don’t agree with the precautions take by the opposing side to attempt to cover up the past actions taken by the Hamas. Not only to perform the events is cruel but to try and say they didn’t happen or weren’t that bad is just disrespectable and degrading. I personally feel neither side is right and that they both suffer massive mistakes and consequences in which they each deserve. Sadly in this day in age, I seem impelled to HAVE to agree with Rice’s side due to having an American heritage but fear I might show a change of ethnocentricity so I wish to turn the article- issue down.