This new Vanity Fair article is hardly surprising given the history of US foreign policy but its still fucked especially in light of the rhetoric Israel has used in their recent “incursion against Hamas,” which is in reality the continuation of the 40 years of occupation, subjugation and murder of thousands of innocent people.

Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. The plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. (The State Department declined to comment.)