Tel-Chai Nation: Hamastan is here

After the going-ons of the past few days, this shouldn't be a surprise (H/T: Hot Air). Naturally, the MSM, in this case, the Boston Globe, would rather put the blame on Israel than admit that Fatah is as much a terrorist organization as Hamas is, and even pays worship to Yasir Arafat (Hat tip: Newsbusters and Gateway Pundit). Look at the bizarre playing both ends against middle tactic they deploy here:

The Hamas campaign to eradicate Fatah from Gaza is certainly not the sole cause of Gazans' misery. They long suffered from Israel's suffocating occupation, and then from Ariel Sharon's foolishly unilateral withdrawal in 2005, a move that allowed Hamas to bid for power with the misleading claim that its rockets and suicide bombings had driven Israeli soldiers and settlers out of Gaza. Gazans were victimized as well by the corruption and misrule of Yasser Arafat's Fatah cronies.

They wanted Sharon, a cold-hearted man unto his own nation, to withdraw from Gaza and then they say this? Can't they make up their minds?

The bitterness of the civil war that has forced the United Nations relief agency to suspend all but emergency deliveries of food and medical supplies is clear in the epithets the two sides use for each other. Hamas calls the Fatah fighters "the Jew-American army" while Fatah, alluding to Iran's backing for Hamas, calls the Sunni Muslims of Hamas "the Shi'ites."

What looms ahead is a division between a Fatah-ruled West Bank and a Gaza that is already being called Hamastan. Arafat may be remembered today for his many failings, but the cardinal rule of all his exasperating deceits and maneuvers was to avoid precisely this sundering of the Palestinian national movement. Arafat understood that without Palestinian unity there could be no hope of an independent Palestinian state.