Israeli Strike on Sudan: Hamas Wins, Darfur Loses
[The following is analysis written for Enduring America]
It was recently revealed that sometime in January, several Israeli F-15s and F-16s entered Sudanese airspace and attacked a convoy of 17 trucks, supposedly filled with weapons bound for Hamas in Gaza. The attack killed 39 people, all Eritrean, Sudanese, and Ethiopian nationals, as well as injuring an unknown number of bystanders. The official reasoning was that this was designed as a deterrent to Iran smuggling weapons to Hamas, as well as display of Israel’s capability to strike, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, “everywhere there is terror.”
However, this attack may have had catastrophic consequences, not only for Israel’s battle against Hamas, but for the US War on Terror, and on a much greater scale, those suffering from the horrible human rights crisis in Darfur. To understand how, we must examine in detail the events leading up to the Israeli attack, the attack itself, and the fallout from the government in Khartoum.
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