Jeffrey Goldberg hears from a Fatah friend who's rooting for
the Israeli Air Force:
It's a strange world, but there you have it. I've been talking
to friends of mine, former Palestinian Authority intelligence
officials (ejected from power by the Hamas coup), and they tell
me that not only are they rooting for the Israelis to decimate
Hamas, but that Fatah has actually been assisting the Israelis
with targeting information. One of my friends -- if you want to
know why they're my friends, read
this book -- told me that one of his comrades was thrown
off a high-rise building in Gaza City last year by Hamas, and
so he sheds no tears for the Hamas dead. "Let the Israelis kill
them," he said. "They've brought only rouble for my people."
