on the edge of the inevitable civil war...

Palestinian Authority Broke and In Disarray

very good article...it looks like the predictions made so many years ago are on the verge of becoming the terrible and sad reality...

at least the french prosecutors are finally looking into arafat's diversion of millions of dollars to his wife in paris...there is at least a silver lining to the sorry tale.

the problem is that collapse of the pa and bloody civil war is not a good thing for anyone.

I am also troubled by the palestinians themselves wanting to thrust their problems on to the Israelis again..."making them pay the consequence of occupation..."

this tactic will ultimately backfire because after unilateral withdrawal, Israel would no longer be an occupying power and no longer bear responsibility.

yet another reason why the security barrier is a necessary evil.