Middle East expert Daniel Pipes offers a sharp analysis of the chaos in Gaza, and what we can call a "Three State Solution" to the Palestinian problem, Israel, Fatah-land, and Hamas-stan. An excerpt:
Assuming Fatah remains in charge on the West Bank (where it is arresting 1,500 Hamas operatives), two rival factions have replaced the single Palestinian Authority. Given the expedient nature of Palestinian nationalism and its recent origins (it dates specifically to 1920), this bifurcation has potentially great import. As I have noted, Palestinianism being so superficial, it could "come to an end, perhaps as quickly as it got started." Alternate affiliations include pan-Islam, pan-Arab nationalism, Egypt, Jordan, or their own tribes and clans.
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