We think it’s probably bad:
Palestinian gunmen demanding jobs in the Palestinian Authority, opened fire Thursday night on Interior Minister Nasser Yousef’s house and the Palestinian Cabinet building, wounding a police officer, Palestinian officials said. The gunmen were from the ruling Fatah Party, Yousef’s own movement.
There’s lots of talk about the risk of a civil war among Palestinian factions. We’re not sure it counts as a civil war if you’re literally shooting your own commanders. Isn’t that just mutiny? Also, we’re not convinced that you can have a civil war if you have no cohesive society or state that everyone is ostensibly a part of (ergo “civil” from “civis”, meaning citizen). Isn’t that just anarchy?
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