Live by sword; die by sword

Why am I not surprised?

Unidentified Palestinian gunmen shot dead a senior Hamas activist in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medics and a security source said, in a further escalation of lawlessness in the coastal strip.

They said unknown gunmen shot and killed 25-year old Mohammed Tatar, a senior member of Hamas's military wing, as he was driving near Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's office in Gaza city.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack.

Separately on Tuesday masked gunmen in the Khan Younis area of Gaza shot and critically wounded another senior member of Hamas's military wing and injured a second Hamas member, witnesses said.

Mounting internal violence in Gaza has been fueled by a power struggle between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Haniyeh over control of security forces.

Did no one notice that the Palestinians have, in the past 30 years, transformed themselves into a society that kills as a means, an end, a pleasure, a hobby, a threat, a whatever?  If you lose your original target, you just find a new one, even if it means chewing your own arm off.