GAZAN CONSEQUENCES: Kathryn Jean Lopez of The National Review Online spoke with Noah Pollak of the Shalem Center who finds positives and negatives in the current Palestinian civil war. The positive is that

this Hobbesian state of affairs benefits Israel in three major ways: in degrading international sympathy for the Palestinians; in galvanizing Israeli public opinion against making concessions to the non-entity that is the Palestinian Authority; and the manner in which the Palestinians are degrading their terrorist capabilities by fighting each other instead of against the IDF and Israeli civilians.

However, the negative to the situation is that

The boldness of Hamas and IJ isn't just a story about Palestinian civil war — it's a story of continued Iranian cooption of terrorist groups and their battles in the Middle East in a larger war against Israel and America.

It is not clear whether either the US or Israel have fully recognized this state of war.

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