Oh-So-Moderate Fatah Party Attending Iranian-Led Coordination Meetings (Plus: Engaging Lunatics Fails? No Way)
They're very very moderate. That's why they send representatives to Iran. That's what moderates do:
Barry Rubin goes on to say that: (1) Fatah is preferable to Hamas so even though they're willing to take order from Tehran they should still be supported, (2) that support should come with a strong does of cynicism and (3) wow, doesn't that situation totally suck and wouldn't it be great if the West hadn't pressured Israel for close to two decades to take "risks for peace" that ended up empowering genocidal lunatics? That last point is actually ours, but we're confident that you can find it if you read between the lines. Or maybe not. But it's still pretty compelling, no?
The serious upshot of the article is after the jump, and then we're going to send you to the main article for a compare and contrast between Republican and Democratic policies - both of which are found wanting.
There are some hysterically - and tragically - misguided quotes in the main article, including pretty concise descriptions of how all the different schools of American foreign policy seem to have in common the feature of being recipes for failure in the Middle East.
Probably nothing for American policy makers to worry about. It's not like Barry Rubin, the director of the International Affairs Center at one of Israel's most important policy campuses, knows anything about political dynamics in the Middle East. He's probably even a Zionist. And you know what that means.
References:
* Pilgrimage to Tehran [GLORIA]
Previously:
* This Summer's War With Syria - Sucking Up To Dictators Doesn't Work Edition
* Syria Expert Barry Rubin Underwhelmed By Nuanced Liberal Insight That Sunnis and Shiites Are Different
* Sarkozy: Let's Engage Syria! Barry Rubin: Let's Not!
