Palestinian Civil Society Watch I - Is Attacking You Own Ministers Good or Bad?
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?
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?
