By Andrew L. Jaffee

So here we have Palestinian democracy: a civil war between terrorist factions. Don’t get your hopes up, thinking that this fighting will lead to a better life for Palestinians, once the dust settles. Civil war the fruit of democracy? Not that I have any problem with Palestinians voting, but their last choice was to pick one of the world’s most feared terrorist groups, Hamas, to lead them. And those “elections” were marred by violence. Now Hamas is clashing with Palestine’s former terrorist rulers, Fatah:

The Palestinian intelligence service’s chief has been seriously injured in a blast at the organisation’s main office in Gaza City, officials said.

General Tareq Abu Rajab’s staff said he was the victim of a bomb attack they called an assassination attempt.

At least one person died and several others were injured in the blast, after they stepped into a lift.

Correspondents say the incident is set to stoke rising tensions between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions.

Just last week:

Police supporting the mainstream Fatah party said they had been attacked by a militant-led force set up by the new Hamas government - a claim it denies.

The clash came after the two rival security forces paraded through the streets in a show of strength.

Rivalry between the Fatah and Hamas has intensified since Hamas’ victory in parliamentary elections in January.

For those of you rooting for Fatah, because of its “secular” past, don’t get your hopes up. Remember that Fatah was the invention of Yasser Arafat, who funded terrorism, ruled by decree, ordered summary executions of his own people, and stole UN, US, European aid money. Arafat’s own al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade has killed scores of innocent Israeli civilians.

For those of you thinking that a Palestinian civil war will finally “sort things out,” please first think about the two sides fighting. On one side, we have Hamas, explicitly sworn to the genocide of all Israelis, and responsible for “kill[ing] more than 500 people in more than 350 separate terrorist attacks since 1993.” On the other side, we have Fatah and its Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, responsible for killing scores of Israelis, and, lest we forget, “Palestinian officials have said most of the group?s members are on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority, often because they serve in both the brigades and in one of the fourteen formal security services.”

There’s an old saying, “six of one, half-dozen of another.” In other words, the choice for the control of Palestine is between one terrorist group or another.

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