Islamic Divisiveness

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency Cabinet on Sunday and outlawed the militia forces of the Islamic Hamas movement, deepening the violent rupture in Palestinian society. Hamas seized control of Gaza last week after routing Abbas' Fatah movement. The hurried swearing-in ceremony of the new Cabinet left the Palestinians effectively with two governments — the Hamas leadership in Gaza and the new Cabinet in the West Bank led by respected economist Salam Fayyad.

• JJ Commentary: The one thing we can count on from the Moslems is internal conflict, just as the Bible prophesied about Ishmael’s descendants in Genesis 16:12: “He shall be a wild man; his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him” – even his own people, as in Iraq between the Sunni’s, Shiites and Kurds.