I have blogged before on Pipes' opposition to the Gaza pullout. Should we see the article below as early evidence that he was right?
Interestingly, the article also reports that the PA backs Israel's view of the explosion that kicked off this round of violence.
Beleaguered Sharon orders new Gaza strikes
Telegraph
26/09/2005
The latest violence was sparked by an explosion that killed 16 people at a Hamas rally in Gaza on Friday. Hamas blamed Israel, and militants fired at least 40 rockets into the Jewish state in response.
Israel, though, denied responsibility and the Palestinian Authority said the explosion appeared to have been an accident caused by Hamas members carrying explosives.
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Was chatting to Dan & Andy over lunch today about the growing anarchy in the Gaza Strip. Here's a first-hand view in today's Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/01/10/do1003.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/01/10/ixportal.html
After all these years, I am ale-less in Gaza
by Patrick Bishop
Telegraph Comment
10/01/2006
I have always been reluctant to accept the Israeli statesman Abba Eban's observation that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Arriving in Gaza yesterday, it had to be admitted that the man had a point.
Four months ago, when I was last here, the place sparkled with optimism. With the hated Israelis gone, Gaza was going to show the world what Palestinians could do when left to their own devices. The Strip's miles of golden sand were to become a sort of Islamic Miami Beach, minus the booze and bikinis. Maybe, a few diehard optimists dared to hope, Yasser Arafat's vision of Gaza as a Middle Eastern Singapore might at last start to be realised. Yesterday, it felt more like the Wild West.
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