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January 05, 2007
Palestinian Civil War Watch - 8
Let me start this one out with a clown photo. Which at least at the current time accompanies an article about 8 new deaths in the Palestinian civil war. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh met with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday night to discuss a solution to the current inter-faction violence after a day of clashes between Hamas and Fatah loyalists left eight Palestinians dead.Wait a minute. I thought that was already accomplished in the last cease fire. I suppose such promises are about as reliable as their cease fire promises to Israel. The eight Palestinians killed in Thursday's armed confrontations brought the death toll to 13 over the past 48 hours. At least 16 Palestinians were wounded in Thursday's fighting.With no Jews in Gaza any more it seems the Palestinians are turning on each other. Sort of a way to maintain military proficiecy in live fire exercises. Given the picture of the clowns I'd say they had a ways to go. This scene is much more horiffic: The body of Gen. Muhammed Gharib, chief of the Fatah-dominated Preventive Security Service in northern Gaza, riddled with bullets and mutilated by stab wounds, was found in his home in northern Gaza Thursday after a daylong battle with Hamas gunmen. Gharib's two daughters were also killed during the fighting, according to reports.It is one thing to kill a man because of political differences. Killing his children will get a serious blood feud started. The #1 rule of any successful mafia is that families are off limits. "Businessmen" OK. That is just business. Families are, well, family. When that rule is violated the feud gets serious. It is no longer about business. It is about blood. Update: 05 Jan '07 1733z The Jerusalem Post reports that a muslim cleric calling for peace between Palestinian factions was killed Friday. There was no claim of responsibility in the death of Adel Nasar, who was shot by gunmen outside the mosque in the Mughazi refugee camp in central Gaza.Evidently there are Palestinians who prefer war to peace and they are willing to kill to get what they want and to silence opposition. Who could have guessed? Well here is a cheery little thought from Fatah. Fatah issued a statement in Gaza: "Blood for blood and aggression for aggression ... and all the sons of the movement should retaliate to each aggression openly."As I said. This is turning into a blood feud. Update: 05 Jan '07 1544z Two Hamas officials have been kidnapped as violence spread to the West Bank Gunmen attacked Hamas officials in two separate incidents in the West Bank on Saturday, as weeks of factional violence in the Gaza Strip appeared to be spreading to the West Bank as well.Update: 07 Jan '07 0909z It is a family affair. Three Palestinians members of the al-Dire family, loyal to Hamas, were killed Saturday by members of the Dughmush family in Gaza City in the continuing internal Palestinian violence and seven people injured.Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 01.05.07 at 03:59 AM |
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Fatah is Sunni, Hamas is Shi'a. Each considers the other apostate. Granted, Fatah is more secular than religious, but that doesn't really help the dynamics any. Hamas is an Iranian proxy, the Sunnis (Egypt, Saudia Arabia, etc) will support Fatah against them.
This will probably keep on until both sides in Gaza are either extinct, or have at least killed off everyone who'd rather fight than live in peace. Tragic and inevitable, but I can't shed any tears for the Palestinians, they have brought this upon themselves.