Anarchy in Gaza Continues

Why does the media continue to attach the term "truce" or "ceasefire" to its reports out of Gaza. In one breath they note the anarchy and violence - the veritable civil war between Hamas and Gaza and in the next they claim that a ceasefire is in effect.

The reports will claim that the ceasefire is "...in jeopardy", "...at risk", or even "...fragile". Nonsense.

There is no truce. There is no ceasefire.

All there is in Gaza is death, violence, mayhem, and misery.

A new round of heavy fighting throughout Gaza killed 10 people Friday — including a woman and three children — making a total of 17 since Thursday afternoon, as gunmen waged battles in the streets with mortar shells, rockets and heavy machine guns.

Thousands of Gazans huddled in their homes to escape the crossfire from the resurgent violence, which destroyed a brief truce between Fatah and Hamas. Health authorities said they were running out of blood to treat the wounded.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah appealed Friday for calm.

"I call on all parties in Gaza to stop these actions that harm the Palestinian people," he said.

More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in internal violence since Hamas won parliamentary elections last year and formed a Cabinet. In the wake of the election, Abbas took control of the security forces and Hamas established its own militia. The two forces have fought repeatedly in the streets.

In another effort to end the fighting, Abbas was to travel Tuesday to Saudi Arabia for talks with Hamas' supreme leader, Khaled Mashaal, on forming a national unity government, an Abbas aide said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting had not been officially announced.

In just the past 24 hours, 13 have been killed and 170 injured.

Hamas and Fatah have been fighting for a year over who will control the unity government and over the key condition that Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist - a necessary precondition for the resumption of foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority and to get back to the bargaining table. Hamas refuses to do this. They refuse to recognize Israel's right to exist and will not even engage in the act of taqiya to further their goals. That's how adamant they are about destroying Israel.

That alone should be a signal to the world and the diplomats that until Hamas is out of the picture, there can be no peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Also, what goes unmentioned is that Islamic Jihad, Fatah, and Hamas are all hoping that the fighting can stop long enough for the terrorists to realize that the true enemy isn't the other Palestinian terror groups, but Israel. Islamic Jihad has said as much. So has Abbas.

Still, Hamas and Fatah keep claiming that they have a new truce in place. Other reports claim that Hamas and Fatah are reviving the truce.

Go figure that there are links between Hamas and Iran. That shouldn't surprise anyone who has been paying attention to what Iran has been doing. They're spreading the money and expertise around to open new fronts against Israel, the US and the West. Iran fights its war against the West by proxy. Hamas and Hizbullah are part and parcel of Iran's weapons against the West.

UPDATE:
Hot Air also notices that last bit about Iran pushing its agenda in Gaza.

Cease-fire or no, the world is eventually going to have to wake up to the grim reality that Iran is meddling in Iraq, in Lebanon and in Gaza, and wherever Iran meddles, you have strife and violence and the threat of civil war. If we want to stop all this fighting in all these places, the place to go is Tehran. Right now, we’re treating the symptoms and not the disease.

Jammie Wearing Fool also notices. Gaius notes the body count growing during the so-called truce and the Iranian menace.

Meryl Yourish points out that the media outlets have no shame in continuing to use the terms truce or ceasefire in their stories on the Palestinian terror group internecine violence.