Today's hot story on the Palestinians concerns its `security forces' shooting up and ransacking the Palestinian Parliament.
Crowds of Palestinian security men fired off automatic rifles and smashed windows and then ransacked the building in one of the biggest protests over unpaid wages since the Hamas took over.
Protesters criticized a plan by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has a plan to make partial salary payments to the lowest paid workers in the Palestinian Authority in the next few days.
"We want to know when this tragedy will stop," one security official shouted through a loudspeaker outside the parliament building in central Gaza City.
Most of the protesters, naturally, were from al Aksa and other Fatah apparatchniks loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Afterwards, the demonstrators made their way to Abbas' Gaza home, where they held a rally in his support.
Fatah itself has said that it will hold the `referendum' Abbas proposed regardless of whether Hamas and other factions participate.
The Palestinian government has been unable to pay salaries for three months to 165,000 government workers after the United States and other Western countries imposed sanctions on aid going directly to the Hamas government.
Abbas, of course, doesn't think enough of his own people's misery to dip into the $1.4 billion Palestine Investment Fund...but readers of this site know that already.
Actually, there's plenty of money available for Hamas from the Arabs and Iran. The problem is getting it there, as the US government has shut down the banking tap in an effort to boost Abbas and `moderate' Fatah. The world's banking system runs through New York City, and every bank in the Arab world is tied into the American banking system. None of these banks would risk being declared by the State Department as a `material supporter' of terrorism. Their assets would be frozen and their directors would be prosecuted.
And no Arab leader has been willing to come forward so far and give guarantees to a bank willing to deal with Hamas...an indication of how the other Arab nations really feel about their Palestinian `brothers'.
Hamas has taken to smuggling currency across the border to counteract this...with limited success.
Abbas of course is no `moderate'. The Israeli government is apparently livid over Abbas appointing wanted terrorist Mahmoud Dimra- AKA Abu Awad- to lead his new private US-UK-funded militia. Dimra is number 5 on the Shin Bet’s list of most wanted terrorists from the days of Arafat's war against Israel.
He served as Yasser Arafat’s undercover coordinator with the Fatah terrorists in the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade still operating unchecked by the `moderate' Fatah leader, the same Mahmoud Abbas.
Dimra ended up being Arafat's `go to ' guy in Arafat’s Ramallah HQ for the planning, execution and dispatch of homicide bombings, drive by shootings and attacks which Fatah’s Force 17 and al Aqsa Brigades were assigned to carry out against Israeli civilians. Arafat also used him as a bag man for the distribution of cash and orders for those attacks...and his signature appears on a number of receipts captured by the Israelis when they invaded Arafat's headquarters.
The Israelis allowed the Jordanians (actually, the US) to provide 200 automatic rifles and ammo for Abbas' `protection', just like they gave Arafat m-16's and ammo to help `keep order' during the heady days of Oslo...weapons that later ended up being used to murder Israeli civilians.
This latest shipment of weapons from Jordan and Abbas' new `security force' will likely end up end up being used exactly the same way.
Some things never change.
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