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Originally posted by sgtclub
Looks like there's going to be an all-out civil war in Gaza. Iraq isn't far behind.
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"Going to be"?
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Are we seeing the start of an all Arab civil war (fundamentalists v. non) that will spread throughout the middle east?
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No. We're seeing a struggle among Palestinians over who will rule them, the natural culmination of Arafat's lousy, lousy rule over the PLO. Hamas was in large part a reaction the corrupt ineffectiveness of the PLO and now Fatah. Arafat is dead, but Palestinians go on paying for his sins.
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Is that ultimately a good thing (from an academic view, of course, in the sense of getting finality, not for all of the innocent people whose lives will be lost or torn apart)?
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I don't see much good coming of it. Least of all for Israel, which should much rather deal with Fatah than Hamas. The conflict is only going to radicalize Palestinians.
