Monday, June 18, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

Mohamed Dahlan has a unique take on the defeat of his Fatah party by Hamas. In Gaza, the strongman of Fatah was quoted yesterday saying: Ok, there was a Hamas coup and Hamas has taken over Gaza - now Gaza is their problem and they must run it.

The reality is that today Gaza is a mess with splits and tensions between Hamas clans and Hamas leaders. The tensions will now flow over onto the streets of Gaza. Hamasniks will soon kill other Hamasniks. That is the style of Hamas and Palestinian disputations.

The newly sworn in Prime Minister of the PA, Salam Fayad, is a very capable economist. Will he want to restore order? Will he want to create a secular Palestinian state? Does he have the strength and the weapons to do what must be done?

If Fatah wants to gain control they must strip Hamas of weapons. That means another all out civil war. Abbas passed a law yesterday making it illegal for Hamas to carry weapons and illegal for Hamas to have any military organizations.

Passing laws is the easy part, it is implementing those laws that is hard.

The days of Palestinian civil war - Fatah vs Hamas and Hamas vs Hamas - are not over.

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