"Uprising - Palestinians Rage Against Arafat
Third day of demonstrations against corruption of Arafat administration. Government offices burned, gunfire traded with police."
You need to learn to read between the lines here. The only "regular" Palestinian people are members of Hezbollah, Abu Nidal, etc. In other words, terrorist gangs with allegiance to mob bosses different than Arafat and his band of thugs, who call themselves the "police". This is like the Corleone family going after the Tattaglias, or any other of the "five families". Except in the Palestinian territories, there are no "civilians", only gang members of one mob or another. They're all absolutely crazy! What else can you expect from suicidal and homicidal mad Moslem murderers?
I appreciate things may be more complicated there than we can understand. But, did you see the Krauthammer column? It seems to be saying the same thing. And, I did read stories a few months back that ordinary Palestinians kicked Hamas bomb makers out of their neighborhoods, they did not want their neighborhood wiped out by Israel.