PA daily op-ed: “The Israeli and American enemy” were behind 2007 Hamas coup
Excerpt of op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: "Revoking the coup is a condition for unity"
"[Hamas'] coup [in Gaza] (see note below –Ed.) was prepared in advance according to a clear goal and agenda, and for the interests of the Israeli and American enemy and the opposing revolutionary forces in the Arab homeland and the region. The coup was tantamount to the spearhead of the so-called Spring of Arab Revolutions, and the engine of acts of destruction within the states and peoples of the Arab nation.
Despite the coup failing to attain its strategic goals, which are the erasure and elimination of the Palestinian cause, it did not fail tactically since it succeeded in tearing apart the two parts of the homeland – and the Hamas Movement militias succeeded in imposing their full control over the southern Palestinian districts (i.e., the Gaza Strip)."
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