As far as I know, the UN, the EU and the Arab League have not yet found a way to blame the Zionist Entity for this sort of thing. But give them another day or two:
Jamal Abu Jadian, a top Fatah commander, fled his home in the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening dressed as a woman to avoid dozens of Hamas militiamen who had attacked it. He and several members of his family and bodyguards were lightly wounded.
But when Abu Jadian arrived at a hospital a few hundred meters away from his house, he was discovered by a group of Hamas gunmen, who took turns shooting him in the head with automatic rifles.
โThey literally blew his head off with more than 40 bullets,โ said a doctor at Kamal Udwan Hospital.
Seasoned observers have been making droll cracks about a โtwo-state solutionโ โ Hamas gets Gaza, Fatah gets the West Bank. But even that cynical jest is wishful thinking. The better bet is that the West Bank will eventually fall Hamasโ way, too.
This is the logical consequence of the fraudulence of โPalestinian nationalismโ. There has never been any such thing. There is no evidence anywhere in the โPalestinian Authorityโ that anyone there is interested in building a state and running it. In conventional post-colonial scenarios of the Sixties and Seventies, liberation movements used terrorism as a means to advance nationalism. By contrast, Arafatโs gang used nationalism as a means to advance terrorism. With him out of the way, it was deluded to assume that the โPalestinian peopleโ would stick with a bunch of corrupt secular socialists with little appeal to anyone other than French intellectuals and Swiss bankers. The Mahmoud Abbas types play well on CNN and in EU subsidy negotiations, but because โPalestinian nationalismโ was always bogus itโs no surprise that the population of Gaza would seek a real identity elsewhere. In the Islamism of Hamas, they have found it. And, if it causes problems for all those Arab League deadbeats who promoted the pseudo-struggle of the โPalestinian peopleโ for their own ends, well, they should have thought of that before they loosed this particular genie.
The question now is whether the Hamasification of the โMiddle East peace processโ will wean the Europeans off their fetishization of the Palestinians. Donโt hold your breath.






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