A beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a state of emergency and disbanded the Hamas-led unity government after the Islamic militant group vanquished its Fatah rivals and effectively took control of the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Fearful that Hamas' momentum could spread to the West Bank, Fatah went on the offensive there, rounding up three dozen Hamas fighters. Angry militants threw office furniture out a third-story window of the Palestinian parliament building in Ramallah, then set fire to the office of three Hamas lawmakers. A Hamas activist was shot and killed in Nablus, the first person to be killed in the West Bank after days of violence in Gaza; the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent Fatah offshoot, claimed responsibility.
If this causes the hair on the back of your neck to stand up, then you are an intelligent person who realizes the ramifications of this turn of events. But if you think the Bush administration shares your fears, then you are mistaken.
You see this is exactly the kind of event that is predicted in those "Left Behind" books, which George Bush has read and believes to be as prophetic as the Bible.
Bush is expecting the Rapture to occur in his lifetime and he believes he has been chosen to help facilitate it. So you will see very little response other then the press release that will express his disappointment, but he will take no further action.
Of course the Rapture is not coming, since it is just superstitious nonsense, but what is going to happen is that the situation in Palestine may endanger Israel and that may draw America into yet another conflict. And can we really afford any more war at this point?
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