When is a civil war not a civil war . . .

. . . when it concerns the "future Palestinian state." This evening, Fox News had a piece on Fatah and Hamas shooting it out in Gaza. Why isn't it called a civil war? After all, we have factions of what passes for a government arming their respective supporters who then duke it out on the streets with automatic weapons. (Keep in mind Iraq is said to be on the brink of a civil war, if not in one, every time we read or watch the MSM.) But the Palestinians cannot ever be said to be in a civil war because then the Left would have to concede that maybe Israel was right after all.