Palestinian Non-Civil War Watch – Hamas Judge Killed

By
Omri Ceren
– December 13, 2006Posted in: Palestinians

They’ve been keeping this up for almost a week. Truth be told, we’re kind of impressed. We didn’t think they had that kind of energy:

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a judge from the governing Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a killing sure to stoke internal unrest. Hamas officials and residents said Bassam al-Fara was a judge in a civil court but also a senior member of the faction’s armed wing. Four gunmen shot him in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis while Fara was on the way to work, they said. The attack comes amid spiralling tensions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank between Hamas and the rival Fatah faction of moderate President Mahmoud Abbas. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which Hamas called an “assassination”.

Hey, you know what’s not going to happen? There’s not going to be a civil war. If nothing else, eventually everyone will get together and agree that it’s all Israel’s fault. In the last lines of the story, Nidal al-Mughrabi (who we think is kind of a biased hack) can’t stop himself from doing even the stupidest and most irrelevant anti-Israel scapegoating. Just to go through the motions, you know:

Hamas has accused Abbas of trying to topple the government, which came to power after beating Fatah in elections in January. Unity talks broke down partly over Hamas’s rejection of Western demands to recognise Israel.

Because that’s totally relevant to the story. Or because those “demands” were sooooo unreasonable.

Previously: Reuters Gives Advice: Want To Dampen Muslim Extremism? Support People Who Want To Commit Genocide., Beit Hanun Meme Watch – “Israeli Terrorism” – Want To Guess Who Reuters Is Willing To Label A Terrorist?, Reuters Headline On Pro-Hezbollah Protests (Hint: You’re Not Going To Be Surprised)

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