In the immortal words of Bruno Gianelli, I love it when the women get involved:

Flying chairs and punches thrown by women students at a Gaza university this week may seem a rather minor manifestation of the factional fighting that has riven Palestinian society over the past year or so. But with Hamas and Fatah still smarting from bloody armed clashes in 2007, when the Islamists routed President Mahmoud Abbas's PLO forces in the enclave, the scuffle shows how deep the rift runs... The fight at the university in Khan Younis was, according to witnesses, triggered by arguments over mutual allegations of repression between leaders of Hamas, who now control Gaza, and of Abbas's Fatah, which dominates the West Bank. "I saw chairs flying over heads and some students were injured. And I saw two or three teachers hit," said one witness, who refused to be named.

Whatever. They've been at this for 15 years without it ever erupting into a sustained civil war, perennially sensationalist MSM headlines aside. They'll go back to attacking Israelis soon enough. Two weeks ago it was pipe bombs in the West Bank and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip. Who knows what next week will bring.

Upside: this time Fatah's got US weapons and training that they're supposed to use against Hamas outlaws. They've even occassionally shown kind of a kind of willingness to use them that way! Downside: they had all that last time and Hamas captured those weapons when they rolled Gaza anyway. And any civil war scenario assumes that Abbas doesn't make good on his suggestion to turn Fatah's weapons on Israelis in the cause of unity.

References:
* THE WEST WING "20 HOURS IN AMERICA PART I"
* Hamas, Fatah women brawl in Gaza as factional tempers flare [Ha'aretz]
* Breaking news from gaza [Soccer Dad]
* Palestinian caught with pipe-bomb at checkpoint outside Nablus [JPost]
* Killing in the West Bank Exposes a Furtive War [WaPo]
* Palestinian Unit Battles Gunmen In Test for U.S.-Funded Program [WaPo]
* Qabatiya residents wounded in Palestinian infighting [YNet]
* Hamas Has 200 Tons Of Explosives That The US Gave To Fatah (Plus: Egypt Says It's Israel's Fault) [MR]
* The Oh-So-Moderate Abbas Urges Palestinians To Unite, Target Israelis [MR]

Previously:
* Hamas: Of Course We'll Never Stop Attacking "Zionist Enemies Of God"
* Hamas Launching Dozens Of Rockets From Palestinian Neighborhoods, Attacking Israeli Troops (Plus: US Announces $14 Million In New Aid)
* Moderate Palestinian State Department Darling: We "Cherish The Path" Of Genocidal Hamas Lunatic Ahmed Yassin