On This Day

Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.

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3 March

RiceBushANATOMY OF A BLOODY COUP ATTEMPT IN GAZA
On this day in 2008, US publication Vanity Fair revealed how the US backed Fatah strongman Dahlan to try to overturn the results of the 2006 Palestinian election won by a landslide by Hamas. Dahlan’s group launched bloody attacks in besieged Gaza. David Wurmser, Middle East adviser to Vice-President Dick Cheney, told the magazine that "what happened wasn't so much a coup by Hamas but an attempted coup by Fatah that was pre-empted before it could happen." The UK Government designated Hamas as a terrorist group in 2001.

 

تفاصيل محاولة انقلاب دموي في غزة

3 مارس

في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2008 ، كشفت المجلة الأمريكية "فانيتي فير" كيف دعمت الولايات المتحدة رجل فتح القوي دحلان لإلغاء نتائج الانتخابات الفلسطينية لعام 2006 التي فازت بها حماس. شنت جماعة دحلان هجمات دامية في غزة المحاصرة. وقال ديفيد ورمسر ، مستشار الشرق الأوسط لنائب الرئيس ديك تشيني ، للمجلة إن "ما حدث لم يكن انقلابا من قبل حماس بقدر ما كان محاولة انقلاب من قبل فتح تم استباقها قبل أن تحدث". صنفت حكومة المملكة المتحدة حماس على أنها جماعة إرهابية في عام 2001.

 

The full article in Vanity Fair, Gaza Bombshell is worth reading in full.

After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, the author reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.

The UK Guardian - US plotted to overthrow Hamas after election victory

The Bush administration plan sought to undo the results of elections in the West Bank and Gaza in January 2006 which, to the chagrin of White House and State Department officials, saw Hamas win a majority of seats in the Palestinian legislature.

The project was approved by Bush, Rice, and Elliott Abrams, the hawkish deputy national security adviser. The 2006 election result was seen as an affront to the central premise of the Bush administration's policy in the Middle East - that democratic elections would inexorably lead to pro-western governments.

Defeated in Gaza, Dahlan went on to work with Israeli and US-based mercenaries running assassination squads in Yemen tasked with killing political opponents of the United Arab Emirates regime.

US coups to nullify the outcome of elections was common practice. A short list from the US academic mainstream:
Seven Governments the U.S. Has Overthrown

Yes, we now have confirmation that the CIA was behind Iran's 1953 coup. But the agency hardly stopped there. The era of CIA-supported coups dawned in dramatic fashion: An American general flies to Iran and meets with “old friends”; days later, the Shah orders Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh to step down. When the Iranian military hesitates, millions of dollars are funneled into Tehran to buy off Mossadegh’s supporters and finance street protests. The military, recognizing that the balance of power has shifted, seizes the prime minister, who will live the rest of his life under house arrest. It was, as one CIA history puts it, “an American operation from beginning to end,” and one of many U.S.-backed coups to take place around the world during the second half of the 20th century

See Overthrowing other people’s governments: The Master List, by William Blum
A comprehensive list from a US State Department employee who resigned in protest at US invasions of other countries.
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (Successful ousters of a government in red)

  1. China 1949 to early 1960s
  2. Albania 1949-53
  3. East Germany 1950s
  4. Iran 1953
  5. Guatemala 1954
  6. Costa Rica mid-1950s
  7. Syria 1956-7
  8. Egypt 1957
  9. Indonesia 1957-8
  10. British Guiana 1953-64
  11. Iraq 1963
  12. North Vietnam 1945-73
  13. Cambodia 1955-70
  14. Laos 1958, 1959, 1960
  15. Ecuador 1960-63
  16. Congo 1960
  17. France 1965
  18. Brazil 1962-64
  19. Dominican Republic 1963
  20. Cuba 1959 to present
  21. Bolivia 1964
  22. Indonesia 1965
  23. Ghana 1966
  24. Chile 1964-73
  25. Greece 1967
  26. Costa Rica 1970-71
  27. Bolivia 1971
  28. Australia 1973-75
  29. Angola 1975, 1980s
  30. Zaire 1975
  31. Portugal 1974-76
  32. Jamaica 1976-80
  33. Seychelles 1979-81
  34. Chad 1981-82
  35. Grenada 1983
  36. South Yemen 1982-84
  37. Suriname 1982-84
  38. Fiji 1987 *
  39. Libya 1980s
  40. Nicaragua 1981-90
  41. Panama 1989
  42. Bulgaria 1990
  43. Albania 1991
  44. Iraq 1991
  45. Afghanistan 1980s
  46. Somalia 1993
  47. Yugoslavia 1999-2000
  48. Ecuador 2000
  49. Afghanistan 2001
  50. Venezuela 2002
  51. Iraq 2003
  52. Haiti 2004
  53. Somalia 2007 to present
  54. Honduras 2009
  55. Libya 2011
  56. Syria 2012
  57. Ukraine 2014

       
  58. 4-minute video: CIA tactics to overthrow governments

 

 

 

 

To learn more; an in-depth case study - the 2019 US-supported coup in Bolivia: Revealing and Tragic - System Update with award-winning journalist Glen GreenwaldGlenn Greenwald
Note: in a democratic election in 2020 Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party was elected president in a landslide, winning 55% of the vote and securing majorities in both chambers of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly.