[popdonnelly]

It's a quagmire! Pull out of the Palestinian territories!

[KoRn]

Hopefully they will kill each other to the point of where only 20 or so of them will be left on either side.

[B.O. Plenty]

Arm both sides...

maybe they will manage to wipe each other out....

damned neanderthals...

too bad global warming can't make them an extinct species.

[Alter Kaker]

The U.S. may be making a mistake. I think Hamas will win. Fatah may be marginally better armed, but unless the U.S. or Israel provides air support (politically impossible) Hamas' better trained, more motivated militia will waltz right over them.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

On the verge? They seem to be in civil war every third day, from the news accounts...

[JoeSixPack1]

...the United States is secretly preparing to give £50 million to support forces loyal to ....stupid stupid stupid

give 'em cash they kill each other, don't give 'em cash they kill each other. I vote for the no cash scenario, and free popcorn for us to munch on while we watch! :-)

[paul51]

The fighting came as it emerged that the United States is secretly preparing to give £50 million to support forces loyal to the Fatah leader and president of the Palestinian National Authority

I hope the new congress has enough smarts to shoot this one down. No nore money for terrorists, regardless of what side they are on. Let them all kill each other and swim in their own crap until they get sick enough of it to stop. If the rest of the world or the other countries in the mid east think it is such a problem, let them do something about it.

[mosquewatch.com]

LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR.

[Zack Nguyen]

The fighting came as it emerged that the United States is secretly preparing to give £50 million to support forces loyal to the Fatah leader and president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas...

Now that is really being practical. Anyone who says this White House is too ideological to deal with anyone we don't like needs to check this out. $50 million to folks like that is hard to swallow, but probably necessary.

[Parmy]

Actually, fence the place off. Don't let anybody out and the last one standing we will call the winner.

[greasepaint]

This is great news.

Feel the love.

[csvset]

The plan involves the US administration asking Congress for the money in the next few months, although the scheme is so sensitive that the state department declined to comment yesterday.,

Risky Scheme? It certainly is a scam.

[PGalt]

What! No UN peacekeepers? /sarcasm

[Maynerd]

The Palestinians are starting to give homo sapiens a bad name.

Can't wait for that ever popular two state solution. Palestine is on the verge of being the Switzerland of the middle east. /s

[Poodlebrain]

"An unarmed Muslim cleric..."

Well there's something you don't expect to read about. Seriously, what was the point of leading the story this way?

[Dick Vomer]

I''m pulling for both sides to annihilate the other..

[timer]

Satan is a house divided, but which is more divided : israel with its many political parties, or palestine with fatah/hamas at each others throats?

Isn't gaza an ancient phoenecian colony? The Phoenecians were "people of the sea". If they ever want to return to the creative mode, marine construction would be a good place to start. I've got a couple of invention-ideas to jump start them with.

But like most of you say, they'll kill most of themselves off before realizing that satan, not allah, has been their ruler.