6:13PM
Palestinian brothers at war
Issandr El Amrani
Great, sad story from Gaza by the excellent Sarah El Deeb:
JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP Gaza Strip--The two al-Ottol brothers are recovering in separate rooms of their house, wounded in the latest round of fighting between rival Hamas and Fatah militias one on each side.
Hamada al-Ottol, 19, was wounded while fighting for Fatah, the movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He wants revenge. His brother, Tahseen, 22, of Hamas, hopes a summit underway in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, can stop the internal conflict before the rift between them becomes irreconcilable.
Reader Comments (4)
How rediculous. This absolutely proves that Palestinians can never govern themselves!! Let me ask, do you actually think they could ever have a functioning goverment>?
and why is there no condemnation on the Arab street for what the palis are doing to eachother now. does the SIMPLE ARAB MIND only complain when Israel or USA is involved.
Its time for Egyptians to think about EGYPT and put EGYPT FIRST..Enough have died for Palestine and our country has done alot for them. EGYPT FIRST!
ps: i am absoutely against the occupation of Palestine, but i am also against the stupidity of the Palestinians.
Did you go up the line and attach an inflammatory reply to all of these posts? Rather than attributing violence to the "simple arab mind", perhaps a more constructive sentiment could be garnered.
AAron. There is no Constructive sentiment to e garnered!! We've all tried to find an answer so why many Arabs & Muslims are acting this way...and the answer is always a BLAME on Israel or USA. Maybe we should look at ourselves for once.
Its amazing how we were once a tolerant Knowledge seeking people, and now we are borderline savages! All i care about is EGYPT, EGYPT FIRST. Then we can worry about Palestine and Iraq (IF THE IRAQIS DON"T KILL EACHOTHER OFF BY THEN)
Hi This is Gal second year law student at buffalo. The significance of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on a geopolitical global level is pretty marginal. This is a low intensity conflict with substantially less casualties than Kashmir. On a political level Israel has changed from an approach of conflict resolution to conflict management. Israel's real viable enemy is Iran at the moment, which is non-Arab and does not share a border. The military gap between Israel and the Arab countries is larger than ever (not saying this is necessarily a good or bad thing).
At the moment the prospects of a Palestinain state are dim for the following reasons:
1. Substantive - honestly, the gap between the optimal amount Israel can give and the optimal the Palestinians can give is very large. This is often ignored but it is still there.
2. Procedural - Israel will not give anything until the terror infrastructure is dismantled. Palestine will not dismantle the terror infrastructure until Israel goes back to the 67 line (or never as in the case with Hamas which is adversarial).
3. A Palestinian state is not attractive for either side - it will not be viable for them and they see their struggle as more of a refugee issue. It will not be attractive for Israel either. There is no enough territory
4. There are a number of larger issues Israel is dealing wth now such as Iran and assymetric warfare with numerous terror organizations.