Somaliaza

Gaza’s descent into internecine violence is finally demonstrating to the world that basically, Gaza is a failed state before it’s even become a state, which must be some kind of record. Simply put, both political sides, Fatah and Hamas, now care for little else other than power, over and above their care for the people they are supposed to represent. When this happens what you get is civil war as exemplified in places such as Somalia since the early 1990’s, Afghanistan after the Russians left in 1989, Angola in the 70’s and so on. In this case, the Palestinian people were stupid enough to actually choose Hamas themselves at the ballot box, so they only have themselves to blame, although I can’t help feeling rather sorry for the desperate situation they now find themselves in.

What the resolution is I have no idea. I don’t see the merit in the IDF going in to Gaza to help Fatah against Hamas since the numerous branches of Fatah, such as the Al Aqsa Martyr Brigades, are as active as Hamas in firing Qassams from Gaza and planning suicide bombings from the West Bank. Abbas is so weak and has such little power over all the various factions of even his own party that Israel would simply be wasting its time, money and most importantly its soldiers lives trying to assure the ascendancy of Fatah in the strip as the different Fatah factions would continue to fire the rockets whatever Abbas would say once Israel left. A large ground invasion would temporarily halt the rocket fire but once the IDF troops left, which would be a necessity, the Qassam fire would very quickly return.

No solutions from the Camel then, not sure if the Penguin has any answers, perhaps he’ll let us know.

Camel, out.