FATAH AND HAMAS DECLARE CEASE FIRE - OOPS, THAT DIDN'T WORK OUT - INTERIOR MINISTER RESIGNS

Yesterday, Reliapundit wrote of the new truce which had been declared in the Palestinian territories, saying

THIS IS WHAT... THE UNGTEENTH TRUCE!?!? SHEESH.AND THE ISRAELIS ARE SUPPOSED MAKE A DEAL WITH THEM!?!?!THAT'S IDIOTIC.THE FOLKS ARE ANIMALS - MADE BEASTLY BY THEIR HIDEOUS RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY.LOOK AT HOW THEY RUN THEIR LITTLE GAZA FEIFDOM: IT'S GHASTLY NIGHTMARE.THEY DO NOT DESERVE A STATE TO BE GIVEN TO THEM.

How presumptuous of Reliapundit. He didn't even give peace a chance. He just assumed that the new truce wasn't going to work out. It's people like him, who have no faith in the potential for of human being for change, who are the real roadblocks to peace, right?

This time their cease fire didn't even last six hours. Jeez:

Hamas and Fatah officials had told reporters shortly after midnight Monday that they would begin observing a cease-fire at 1 a.m. (6 p.m. Sunday ET), but the truce never made it to daybreak. Under the agreement, all checkpoints were required to be dismantled, gunmen from both sides were required to be withdrawn from the streets and any hostages held by either side were to be released.

"In order to maintain national unity and preserve Palestinian blood, Hamas and Fatah leaders met and agreed to end the fighting and remove the checkpoints," Ayman Taha, aHamas official, said.

Well, so much for national unity and Palestinian blood:

(CNN) -- An Egyptian-brokered truce ended within hours early Monday
when shooting resumed between rival Hamas and Fatah militias, leaving two gunmen dead and 10 others wounded, Palestinian security sources said. Violence between the factions left four dead on Sunday.

According to the sources, the gunbattle broke out near the Fatah
intelligence headquarters in northern Gaza City. The dead were the bodyguards of
a local Fatah leader.

In protest of the ongoing violence in Gaza, Palestinian Interior
Minister Hani al-Qawasmi resigned Monday, one of his assistants told CNN.
According to the assistant, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh accepted al-Qawasmi's
resignation.

Al-Qawasmi's resignation is a significant blow to the Palestinian
unity government, formed earlier this year in an effort to end the deadly
factional fighting concentrated in Gaza.

Two major sticking points in forming the Fatah-Hamas government
were the portfolio of the interior minister and choosing who would fill the key
position.

The interior minister has control of Palestinian security forces.

Amid frustrations over the inability to enact a Gaza security plan,
al-Qawasmi had tendered his resignation to Haniya a few weeks ago, but the prime minister did not accept it.