“HAMAS APPEARS TO BE WINNING CIVIL WAR:” Wow, that was fast. Just yesterday we were merely on the brink.

UPDATE: Related item here. “The MSM’s reluctance to call the Gaza civil war a civil war –the New York Times this morning refers to ‘what is beginning to look increasingly like a civil war’– is because the Gaza meltdown doesn’t fit the tired media narrative that sees America as ‘breeding terrorists’ in Iraq and the conflict in the Palestinian territories as the result of Israeli oppression.” Yeah, this almost looks like terrorism is the preferred tactic of Arab terrorists for reasons of their own, or something.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Okay, now that Mahmoud Abbas is calling it a civil war, can we consider it official?

MORE: Okay this from Andrew Sullivan is incoherent, even by his recent standards:

Glenn Reynolds is surely right that what is going on in the Palestinian territories is a civil war. What I don’t understand is why he doesn’t therefore support invading the place and occupying it indefinitely to curb the Islamist threat. I mean: al Qaeda and Islamists are gaining ground in Gaza and the West Bank. What are we waiting for?

It’s not like we invaded Iraq for these reasons, after all. Nor is Andrew, so far as I know, calling for an Iraq withdrawal. So what is he getting at here, beyond mindless snark? Not much, it seems.