[Tamar1973]

"The United States and Israel, he says, "want the Palestinian people to fight one another and the road map is meant to silence the intifadah and resistance." He urges the Palestinian Authority and people "to reject this conspiracy and refuse to kill one another." He says that the Palestinian Authority "will lose everything if HAMAS, the Islamic Jihad, Al-Aqsa Brigades, and the mujahidin brothers no longer exist."

The Qatari imam is smarter than some FReepers think. This is exactly what Bush wants, IMO--a "palestinian civil war".

[DannyTN]

It's a false claim that the PA would lose everything if the terrorist groups no longer existed. Israel would be hard pressed to justify not allowing them self determination in the absence of terrorism.

However in order for the PA to be allowed to have a state, they must be able to stop terrorism originating from within their borders. Thus a civil war appears at this time the only likely way to get an PA administration that is serious about stopping terrorism and about peace with Israel.

The problem is that terrorism isn't going to go away unless either the PA or Israel puts it down, thoroughly. It's doubtful the PA ever will as long as Arafat has his hands in it. Israel would be condemned by the world (unjustly in my opinion) for doing it.