TWO PARTIES ARE INDEED MAKING COMMON CAUSE AGAINST THE THIRD:

The Fatah-Hamas rift deepens (David Kenner, 01/21/2009, Foreign Policy)

While the Israel-Hamas war has come to a inconclusive end, the ongoing Palestinian civil war shows no sign of abating. There had been some thought that the Israeli offensive in Gaza could lead Hamas and Fatah to find a common cause against their shared enemy. Instead, suspicion between the two factions appears to be at an all-time high.

When the Palestinian people elected Hamas to run the incipient nation Israel and the U.S. backed Fatah as it carved out a rump territory. Such commonality as exists is between Israel and Fatah, both oppose self-determination in Palestine.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 21, 2009 1:15 PM