It's interesting that the factors seen in Iraq that apparently prompt so many to cry "civil war!" are even more prevalent in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority... yet few people who are critical of Iraq are also calling American/European involvement with the Palestinians a debacle.
Violent clashes and mass protests erupted Saturday across the West Bank and Gaza Strip between followers of the militant group Hamas and Fatah rivals, after a Hamas leader accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of treachery.The two sides traded gunfire and hurled stones and firebombs, escalating a fierce power struggle between militant and moderate factions focused on control over Palestinian security forces.
Abbas said Saturday he would not allow the accusations to plunge the Palestinians into civil war.
Too late? Should the West withdraw its involvement with the Palestinians? Were the years of "peace process" a wasted effort?
(HT: Jonah Goldberg.)
So what exactly are you arguing? That if the west withdrew from Palestine that the conflict between Hamas and Fatah would end? (Or for that matter that the US and UK withdrawing from Iraq would solve all of its problems?)
Or that somehow the situation in Iraq is of the same magnitude of that in Palestine?
Manish: I'm just saying that the pet causes of the left get treated differently by the media than the pet causes of the right. Reading this post again, I wasn't very articulate.