Saturday January 29, 2005

I've Been Thinking:

Today there was fighting in Gaza.
The fighting came fresh out of an election. It was between rival Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Fatah. Hamas just trounced maintstream Fatah in this week's election.

The fighting started during a Hamas rally/victory march through an area known to be nearly totally inhabited by Fatah supporters. Local guns went blasting in response to the Hamas taunts of: "You chose secularism. You should have chose Islam."

Between the guns, knives and clubs, Fatah supporters wounded over 20 Palestinians.

This is just the begining.
Internal conflicts will rule until replaced by true safety and security.

The Palestinian street is an exact parallel with Iraq.
Elections are not the end they are just a tiny first step.
True progress will only happen when there is safety on the streets.
What is true in Gaza will be true in Baghdad as of tomorrow.