In Investors Business Daily:

Middle East: Violence between rival Palestinian factions has erupted across the Gaza Strip. The death toll since the fighting escalated Saturday has hit 70. But in the West, none dare call it a civil war.

Oh my.  Can’t say if other outlets have been reporting this, but Fox News has been doing so for several nights now.  It’s a terrible sign of how incapable of governing themselves are the Palestinians and how needful they are of Israeli occupation to create a semblance of order and prosperity.

The intelligentsia of the developed world have too much invested in portraying the plight of the Palestinians as a problem created by hard hearts in Israel. Civil war? That better describes the quagmire President Bush faces is in Iraq. No such thing in the Palestinian territories. The people there and their beleaguered leaders are just spending too much of their energy trying to survive Jewish cruelty to fight among themselves.

And there’s more, more, more for our anti-Israel friends to consider . . .