Hamas and Fatah militiamen have clashed repeatedly in the last three weeks, including on three separate occasions in just the last two days. Early Monday morning, three men were killed in Khan Yunis during a shoot-out between the factions that followed a series of tit-for-tat kidnappings.
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interesting here how the internal palestenain conflict...their present lack of ability to provide security for their own appears to be of no real interest.....more so its affects on the entire region also seem to be irelevant.
its seems to me...and i'm open for other suggestions, but the general feeling is that whatever happens within the palestenain society is secondary to israel either pulling out of the westbank or disappearing (depending upon the poster)....
meaning the palestenian society may fall in on its face and become one more failed society or one based on religious fanaticism (complete with moral squads roaming...as they have in iran and parts of gaza today)....and all of that would be just fine, as long as israel is not in the westbank.
let me make this even simpler: whether or not the palestenain lives are worsened by israel pulling out now, makes no difference to most of the posters here, let their society be torn by civil war, executions, etc...as long as israel is not occupying....
well, hate to ruin a good simplistic scenario, but a failed or religious palestinean state not only means increased internal violence for citizen palestenian, not to mention no civil rights (is that relevant to the posters here?) but increased attacks on israel...and its subsequent reprisal.
of course if gaza is any sort of measurement, israel will be blamed for the attacks and its reprisals, which then can be used as the excuse for the failed society.
the conclusion?
like the surrounding arab states, the palestenains, they're actual day to day living , their actual civil rights etc is nothing anybody cares about....its only when israel is involved or is imagined to be involved, is there anything to write about, get excited about.