Seriously, they’re not even close to a state:
About 200 policemen stormed government offices in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Monday to protest at the failure of the Palestinian Authority to fight growing lawlessness, witnesses said. The incident was the latest sign of chaos in Gaza, which has suffered growing internal unrest since Israel withdrew last September after 38 years of occupation. Firing into the air as they ran through the streets, the policemen raided government offices, courthouses, an election office and the municipality building in Rafah.
Police officers. Raided government buildings. To protest lawlessness. Instead of, you know, doing their job to enforce the law. Awesome.
Meanwhile, recent polls show that Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party seems to have developed a big lead over Hamas rivals – but members of Fatah are so convinced that they’re going to lose the upcoming elections to Hamas that they’re considering resigning from Fatah. Also, somebody should tell the YNet folks that “pressurize” doesn’t mean what they think it means.
