Conflict Blotter

Israel’s Maariv newspaper recounts yesterday’s cabinet meeting:

Director of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin and GSS Director Yuval Diskin said Fatah could also lose control of the West Bank to Hamas. “Contrary to what you may think, Fatah is not soundly based in Judea and Samaria at all. The Fatah agencies are fragmented and riven with dissent and there is no hierarchy between them,” Diskin said at the cabinet meeting.