Vanity Fair: Bush administration caused Hamas takeover of Gaza
Is this believable? In a word, yes. David Wurmser has been a severe critic of White House Middle East policy since he resigned as Cheney’s adviser. His wife Meyrav has also indicated that the Bush administration abandoned Israel as a consequence of its failure to produce in the 2006 Lebanon War. Meyrav Wurmser is an Israeli; David is an American. Their commitment to Israel has been unstinting.
On the other hand, the US obsession with Dahlan is inexplicable. It’s most obvious manifestation is the State Department’s stonewalling of an investigation into the murders of three of its own contractors - John Branchizio, Mark Parsons, and John Linde - widely presumed to have been carried out by Dahlan in 2003. Dahlan is also rumored to be behind a coup attempt against Salam Fayad, who is supposed to be the only honest politician in Fatah. And in October, the State Department demanded that Abu Mazen himself appoint Dahlan as his deputy.