WikiLeaks: Palestinian group ‘asked Israel’ to attack Hamas
(CNN) — In the summer of 2007, two Palestinian groups — Fatah and Hamas — fought street battles in Gaza. Fatah, loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, was losing. And a U.S. diplomatic cable indicates that “desperate, disorganized, and demoralized” Fatah members appealed to Israel to attack their rival. The cable quotes the head of the Israeli Security Agency, Yuval Diskin, as telling U.S. diplomats, “They are approaching a zero-sum situation, and yet they…
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WikiLeaks: Palestinian group ‘asked Israel’ to attack Hamas
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