Civil War Possible in Palestine

With the overwhelming election of Hamas this past week, Fatah military officers are beginning to fear for their jobs. This is the stuff that civil wars are made out of. The struggle for unified control of miltiary and non military armed forces within Palestine have a very good chance of errupting in a full scale coup of violence, assasinations, and civil war in this country. Peace keeping forces may be necessary in the not so distant future and we suspect the U.N, Security Council will be tested again if full scale civil war breaks out.

Fatah Activists Demand Change in Party: (RAMALLAH) West Bank -
Fatah activists marched to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' compound, police briefly stormed the parliament building in Gaza and security forces clashed with Hamas gunmen on Saturday as the long-ruling party lashed out in anger for its devastating election loss.

Fears over the future of the security forces under a Hamas-led government added to the chaos.

Most of the 58,000 security officers are allied with Fatah and worry that they will lose their jobs. The Islamic militant group, which won a majority in Wednesday's parliamentary vote, has its own armed force of about 5,000 gunmen in the
Gaza Strip.

'The security forces will stay. Hamas has no power meddling with the security forces,' Jibril Rajoub, Abbas' national security adviser, told the hundreds of Fatah activists at Abbas' compound.

The group, which included gunmen, marched to the compound in Ramallah and peacefully prayed at
Yasser Arafat's grave. 'We came to you Abu Amar to forgive us for what happened,' they chanting, referring to the late Palestinian leader by his nickname. More...

Sore losers are beginning their revolt. The Palestinian people continue on their 50 year journey of suicidal behavior blowing EVERY opportunity for peace and their own stable internationally recognized state. The world must see clearly by now that the only agenda is the destriction of Israel and themselves in the process. Sanctions will not work, unless we are ready to go to war with Iran and Syria and risk polarizing the moderate Arab states. Israel will not sit by quitely with Sharon gone and Netenyahu waiting in the wings to regain control. Then, given the first action from Hamas on Israeli soil, and with the world recognizing Palestine as a NEW NATION, such an action will be concidered not a terrorist act but an Act of War and as such will justify whatever action Israel will deem appropriate to protect it's citizens from it's unstable neighbor. Just a prediction....