THE SOPRANO-FICATION OF GAZA: I doubt if the ending to this will be quite as vague.

As of this writing, Hamas forces have overtaken the majority of the Gaza Strip, including several strongholds once controlled by Fatah, Hamas's bitter rival. Internecine Palestinian fighting has claimed hundreds of lives and displaced thousands of civilians. The government has been dissolved. The UN is considering sending peacekeeping troops to stanch the bloodletting.

Some observers have presented the struggle as an ideological war between Hamas's Islamism and Fatah's secular nationalism. But a more appropriate analogy is to the gangland mob drama The Sopranos, which concluded its eight-year run earlier this week.

This comparison isn't meant to be fatuous or to make light of a serious and tragic situation. But the similarities are too apt to ignore.

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[Hat tip: Instapundit]

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