THIS SEEMS LIKE A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT:

Gunmen burned down offices of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority in Gaza Sunday, as anger spread over the Palestinian leader’s overhaul of his security forces that many saw as falling short of genuine reform. . . .

Dozens of militants belonging to an extreme offshoot of Arafat’s Fatah movement stormed an office building in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis shortly after midnight to protest Arafat’s appointment of his cousin, Moussa Arafat, as chief of security.

Some people are speculating that this is a good time to get rid of Arafat. Apparently, some palestinians agree. More here.

UPDATE: Reader Harry Shepler emails: “Your recent posts regarding the situation in Gaza and the PA highlight the inevitable as the intifada comes to an end, with the help of the security fences and targeted assassinatons. At the end of most ‘wars’ the losing regime loses power.”