We have just seen in The Palestine Papers how Israel with MI6 tried to contain Hamas in Gaza, suggesting assassinations and torture. In January 2006 the Palestinians elected Hamas. Israel then illegally withheld finance, and in late 2008 contrived the bombing of Gaza in Operation Cast Lead. Funnily enough it was Egypt that brokered a deal between Hamas and Israel in which Hamas would stop rocket fire in return for Israel to lift its blockade. Official Israel statistics show that rocket fire fell dramatically to near zero in the summer of 2008. However, Israel did not honour its side of the deal. It then killed several Hamas on the day of the US Presidential election, and then used the provoked response from Hamas to begin Operation Cast Lead.
So this is what happens when democracy does not go the way Israel wants.
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