BUT IT’S NOT A CIVIL WAR (CONT’D):

Ignoring a truce and Arab mediation offers, Hamas and Fatah fighters exchanged gunfire in upscale beachfront neighborhoods Saturday, and Hamas gunmen threatened to attack high-rise buildings unless residents force rival snipers off their rooftops. . . .

Nasser Mushtaha, who owns a high-rise near President Mahmoud Abbas’ compound, said members of Abbas’ Presidential Guard were posted on his roof and at the entrance to the building. He said he received phone calls from Hamas members, who warned they would blow up the building unless the troops left. Some of the guardsmen refused.

Mushtaha complained about his building being used as an outpost. “Who will protect us? What is our fault? We are neither Fatah nor Hamas,” he said, adding that dozens of windows had already been shattered by bullets.

If the Israelis were doing this, instead of Hamas, we’d already be hearing charges of “war crimes.”