Palestine
So one of the long-standing pieces of received wisdom from the bien pensant members of the Britsh Left has been that Palestinians are generally nice people who have only been reluctantly driven to "understandable" levels of violence (see: Jenny Tonge et. al.) by the evil actions of the Israeli government.

If that's true, can someone please explain why Gaza has been in a state of civil war between rival Palestinian terrorist organisations for a couple of weeks now? While the British media has been ever hopeful that Iraq would erupt into outright civil war, it's happened elsewhere. It's not such a delicious story for the BBC types, since George Bush can't be personally blamed for it - although I'm sure someone will find an angle on that - but its happened nonetheless.

So why is this happening in territories populated and controlled by the supposedly peace-loving Palestinians who, we are told, only reluctantly and rarely turn to violence purely as desperate acts against oppression by the Zionist entity?