Palestinian Non-Civil War Watch (Bonus: It's the Jews' Fault. Of Course It Is)
In this morning's roundup, we made light of the odds for an all-out Fatah-Hamas war. But for what it's worth, it does seem like this might be a little more serious than their past head-fakes at civil war. We still maintain that they don't have the attention span to keep up a really vicious civil war (if they has that kind of commitment, they'd have a state by now). But that doesn't mean that the Palestinian and Muslim media aren't just as predictable and sad as you'd expect. For instance - according to the Palestinian media, what's the real tragedy of all this fighting? Is it that Palestinians are killing Palestinians? Sure, that's bad. But the real tear-jerker is the time and ammunition lost forkilling Jews:
"A cartoon published in Al-Kuds showed a man flushing weapons used during the internecine fighting down the toilet."... "O Palestinians, we are killing our national cause with our own hands," wrote Hassan Nazzal, from the town of Kabatiyeh near Jenin. "We are using our filthy nails to destroy the achievements of our martyrs. By all accounts, what is happening in Gaza, Nablus, Hebron and Jenin these days marks one of the darkest pages in our history. It's indeed a very, very black page."
Oh, the waste of it all. And when Hamas has been stockpiling weapons for months just to kill Israelis:
Hamas has succeeded in smuggling "hundreds of tons" of weapons from Egypt into the Gaza Strip and is preparing for the possibility of launching a large-scale conflict with Israel, according to a report by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party. The report, drafted by Fatah's General Security Services and obtained by WND, stated [that] Hamas has smuggled from the Egyptian Sinai desert between several hundred and 1,300 tons of advanced rockets; anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles; rocket propelled grenades; raw explosives; rifles; ammunition; and other heavy weaponry.
That would be the Gaza-Egypt border across which the the Egyptians are treaty-bound to prevent smuggling and the Europeans are committed to monitoring in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal. It's really a wonder that Israel doesn't trust its security to the vaunted "EU monitors", isn't it? Current record of international monitors who make security commitments in exchange for Israeli concessions: the ones supposed to keep Zeevi's killers in prison in exchange for Israel letting them out of the Church of the Nativity - packed up and left; the ones supposed to keep weapons out of the Gaza Strip - threatening to pack up and leave (not like they're doing much good now).
Things do seem to be getting a little crazier than usual out there:
For most Palestinian newspapers and columnists, the bloody clashes that took place between supporters of Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip on Sunday could herald a civil war that has been looming for months. Controlled by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah, the official PA media put the blame for the street battles on Hamas and its government. Al-Kuds and Al-Ayyam, the two leading dailies, ran black banner headlines declaring "Black Sunday" and "Catastrophe" in the Gaza Strip.
Now, the joke we were going to make when we were reading through the article the first time was "finally - a Palestinian 'Catastrophe' that isn't Israel's fault!" But of course, we should have known better:
An editorial published in Iranian newspaper Jomhury-e Eslami on Tuesday blamed Israel and the West for the internal fighting in the Palestinian Authority. “What is currently happening in Palestine is the result of a joint plot conjured by the Zionist criminals and the western nations against the Palestinian people,” said the newspaper, which is affiliated with Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
See, you might not realize why Iranian newspapers publish these sorts of conspiracy theories: it's because they're absolutely batshit crazy.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
"A cartoon published in Al-Kuds showed a man flushing weapons used during the internecine fighting down the toilet."... "O Palestinians, we are killing our national cause with our own hands," wrote Hassan Nazzal, from the town of Kabatiyeh near Jenin. "We are using our filthy nails to destroy the achievements of our martyrs. By all accounts, what is happening in Gaza, Nablus, Hebron and Jenin these days marks one of the darkest pages in our history. It's indeed a very, very black page."
Oh, the waste of it all. And when Hamas has been stockpiling weapons for months just to kill Israelis:
Hamas has succeeded in smuggling "hundreds of tons" of weapons from Egypt into the Gaza Strip and is preparing for the possibility of launching a large-scale conflict with Israel, according to a report by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party. The report, drafted by Fatah's General Security Services and obtained by WND, stated [that] Hamas has smuggled from the Egyptian Sinai desert between several hundred and 1,300 tons of advanced rockets; anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles; rocket propelled grenades; raw explosives; rifles; ammunition; and other heavy weaponry.
That would be the Gaza-Egypt border across which the the Egyptians are treaty-bound to prevent smuggling and the Europeans are committed to monitoring in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal. It's really a wonder that Israel doesn't trust its security to the vaunted "EU monitors", isn't it? Current record of international monitors who make security commitments in exchange for Israeli concessions: the ones supposed to keep Zeevi's killers in prison in exchange for Israel letting them out of the Church of the Nativity - packed up and left; the ones supposed to keep weapons out of the Gaza Strip - threatening to pack up and leave (not like they're doing much good now).
Things do seem to be getting a little crazier than usual out there:
For most Palestinian newspapers and columnists, the bloody clashes that took place between supporters of Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip on Sunday could herald a civil war that has been looming for months. Controlled by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah, the official PA media put the blame for the street battles on Hamas and its government. Al-Kuds and Al-Ayyam, the two leading dailies, ran black banner headlines declaring "Black Sunday" and "Catastrophe" in the Gaza Strip.
Now, the joke we were going to make when we were reading through the article the first time was "finally - a Palestinian 'Catastrophe' that isn't Israel's fault!" But of course, we should have known better:
An editorial published in Iranian newspaper Jomhury-e Eslami on Tuesday blamed Israel and the West for the internal fighting in the Palestinian Authority. “What is currently happening in Palestine is the result of a joint plot conjured by the Zionist criminals and the western nations against the Palestinian people,” said the newspaper, which is affiliated with Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
See, you might not realize why Iranian newspapers publish these sorts of conspiracy theories: it's because they're absolutely batshit crazy.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
