(Neocons come in all flavors. Red and Blue. Here we see neocon influenced Bush admin trying to pick the same Dictator for Palestine as the Biden admin just did. The more things change...)
' In the frequent calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Joe Biden dedicated much of the conversation to the post-war political solutions..
Cabinet ministers have come up with various ideas... regarding who will control Gaza after Hamas... One proposal was to have former Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan rule Gaza...' JNS Oct 2023
from al Jazeera 2017
Hand-picked by the neocons to overthrow Hamas
It was Gaza-based Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan who was selected to lead the mission of overthrowing Hamas. The choice was made by W Bush’s own National Security Council Middle East adviser, Elliot Abrams.
Then, the neocons were leading a campaign to construct a “New Middle East“, which was the culmination of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s aggressive “diplomacy” in the region.
The US government was eager to show that its violent military adventures in the Middle East would eventually lead to political stability through a US-sponsored democracy initiative...
The man to thwart Palestinian democracy was Dahlan. It was the obvious choice, since Dahlan, a warlord by any standards, had good ties with Israel, a strong position within Fatah and was deeply connected to various Arab intelligence agencies. He also commanded 10 security branches in Gaza, dedicated mostly to cracking down on dissent. Many of those imprisoned and tortured by Dahlan’s forces, funded and trained under a programme managed by US Lieutenant General Keith Dayton, targeted Hamas fighters, political leaders and supporters.
The plan was a massive failure. In the matter of a few days in the summer of 2007, Hamas routed Dahlan’s forces, and, until this day, single-handedly controlled Gaza...
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