Seymour Hersh "The Redirection" - a question about Palestine . . .

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"Patrick Clawson, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, depicted the Saudis' cooperation with the White House as a significant breakthrough. 'The Saudies understand that if they want the Administration to make a more generous political offer to the Palestinians they have to persuade the Arab states to make a more generous offer to the Israelis.'"

So, someones wants us to believe that the Redirection is supposed to do something(?) positive for Palestine (free it?, maybe, maybe not.)

Hersh goes on in describing the actual mechanisms of the Redirection to say the Saudis are using Asbat al-Ansar, which is a radical Sunni group situated in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, to help the Siniora government in Lebanon resist the influence of Hezbollah, which as I understand it supports a Free Palestine.

So how is that supposed to work? If you split Palestinian support between pro-American/Siniora and pro-Hezbollah factions in Lebanon, where does that leave Palestine?

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070305fa_fact_hersh