Yeah, that whole We Live To Kill thing is sort of incompatible with the realities of building a nation.
They’re a bunch of wild dogs fighting over a bone.
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One group plays the rational, civilized yet trod-upon victim of Israeli aggression. This is the group that testifies at the UN and travels the US and Europe begging for aid, and plays to all the newscrews for public sympathy and outrage at the Jews. They prepare and stage propaganda pieces for foreign consumption. When Arafat was alive, his group performed this function.
The other party works internally, for the most part. They're the ones who distribute and spend the aid money, except the minor fraction the first group spends to keep up appearances for the foreigners. They spend most of the aid money to make war on the Infidels - digging tunnels, hiring soldiers, buying materials for homemade weapons, or buying arms from overseas. This is the group that funds and carries out terrorist acts. They engage in propaganda too, but it's for true believers and their own peons, and to terrorize their victims. They stage rallies as well, to whip up the local crowds and recruit willing martyrs for the cause.
The civilized, public governing body is necessary because rich donors/governments don't want to directly fund the killing of civilians in terror attacks. That wasn't us, the Pali apologists say, it was those "death to America" fundamentalist fanatics that we're not part of. They exist so Pali sympathizers can give to the cause with clear consciences.
The fanatic, warlike group exists to strike terror into the enemy, and keep up appearances for the masses. They won't negotiate with the Jews or the infidels, that's for the other guys.
The two groups occasionally change roles and/or personnel and will often change names, but it's the same setup pretty much.
Interesting read, thanks for posting.