@amerika @Penelope @faab64 The US supported Fateh because it was at least nominally trying to reach compromise. Director of Israeli military intelligence in a leaked diplomatic cable told US ambassador that Hamas winning was beneficial because then they could treat Gaza overtly as a hostile entity.

Israel is willing to let terrorists inflict this suffering on their own people to further their long term goals.

right wing israelis derailed peace attempts in the 90s and netanyahu admitted to settlers on tape that he completely rejected the attempt at peace

I'm not going to continue to derail your thread but suggest sometime you read about it as its very interesting.