Israel's strategy was to set Hamas against Fatah and let the two
annihilate off each other.
That was why it sponsored Hamas in its early days as a rival
against Fatah.
For some reason, this type of plan always backfires.
For example Britain setting Germany against Russia; also
resulted in a debacle for them.
...As a result of these attacks and a barrage of similar attacks
on the treaty which continued year after year, British public
opinion acquired a guilty conscience about the Treaty of
Versailles, and was quite unprepared to take any steps to enforce
it by 1930.
On this feeling, which owed so much to the British idea of
sportsmanlike conduct toward a beaten opponent, was built the
movement for appeasement.
This movement had two basic assumptions: (a) that
reparation must be made for Britain's treatment of Germany in 1919
and (b) that if Germany's most obvious demands, such as
arms equality, remilitarization of the Rhineland, and perhaps union
with Austria, were met, Germany would become satisfied and
peaceful. The trouble with this argument was that once Germany
reached this point, it would be very difficult to prevent Germany
from going further (such as taking the Sudetenland and the Polish
Corridor).
Accordingly, many of the appeasers, when this point was reached
in March 1938 went over to the anti-Bolshevik or "three-bloc" point
of view, while some even went into the "peace at any price" group.
It is likely that Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, and Sir Samuel Hoare
went by this road from appeasement to anti-Bolshevism. At any rate,
few influential people were still in the appeasement group by 1939
in the sense that they believed that Germany could ever be
satisfied. Once
this was realized, it seemed to many that the only solution was to
bring Germany into contact with, or even collision with, the Soviet
Union...
http://real-world-news.org/bk-quigley/
...And by this date, certain members of the Milner Group and of
the British Conservative government had reached the fantastic idea that they
could kill two birds with one stone by setting Germany and Russia
against one another in Eastern Europe.
In this way they felt that the two
enemies would stalemate one another, or that
Germany would become satisfied with the oil of Rumania and the
wheat of the Ukraine. It never occurred to anyone in a
responsible position that Germany and Russia might make common
cause, even temporarily, against the West. Even less did it
occur to them that Russia might beat Germany and thus open all
Central Europe to Bolshevism.
In order to carry out this plan of
allowing Germany to drive eastward against Russia,
it was necessary to do three things:
(1) to liquidate all
the countries standing between Germany and Russia;
(2) to prevent France from honoring her alliances with these
countries; and
(3) to hoodwink the English people into accepting this as a
necessary, indeed, the only solution to the international
problem.
The Chamberlain group were so successful in all three of these
things that they came within an ace of succeeding, and failed only
because of the obstinacy of the Poles, the unseemly haste of
Hitler, and the fact that at the eleventh hour the Milner Group
realized the implications of their policy and tried to reverse
it...
http://yamaguchy.netfirms.com
"The documents received after the Munich conspiracy are
particularly valuable. They analyze the post-Munich situation in
Europe and
clearly show that Britain was trying to draw Germany and the Soviet
Union into active hostilities," Sotskov emphasized
in an interview with RIA Novosti.
In a memo on December 21, 1938, Lavrenty Beria reported to Stalin
about the Soviet-seized documents, which included reports of
Finnish envoys to London, Paris, and Warsaw on Germany's eastward
expansion, and the position of the British, French, and Polish
governments on this issue.
Thus, Finnish Ambassador in London Grippenberg reported to his
Foreign Ministry: "I heard the opinion that German propaganda of
colonies is false. As Britons put it, it is a smokescreen to cover
the preparations of a plan concerning Soviet Ukraine. Hitler
himself told French Ambassador Francois-Poncet that he was not even
thinking about any colonies," the document reads.
Later, on November 25, Grippenberg reported his
conversation with a British government member who assured him that
Britain and France would not interfere in Germany's eastward
expansion.
"Britain's
position is as follows: let's wait until Germany and the U.S.S.R.
get involved in a big conflict," the document
reads...
http://rbth.ru/articles/2008/10/02/
