P F Tinmore
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Arafat was an oligarch too.Indeed, he is an oligarch.Why he's building up a monsterous bank account and a villa in Sharm el-Sheikh. Didn't you know?Horsecrap!
Abbas is going onto his tenth year of a four year term and they are farther away from peace than they were back then. What has he done besides watch Israel eat up the West Bank?
Hey, don't get so upset. We agree . We both want Hamas to fill Arafat's shoes in leading the Palestinians. Arafat took the Palestinians from the toilet to the sewer, got them massacred over & over again by their own Arab brothers, embezzled their money & left them living in ignorance & poverty with no hope for a Palestinian State. Lets face it, Abbas could never fill Arafat's shoes. Long live Hamas.
The first thing Hamas did after they were elected was to call for a truce.
Did they or did they call for truce well before the elections
Hamas - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
In the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, Hamas won a decisive majority in the Palestinian Parliament,[42] defeating the PLO-affiliated Fatah party. Following the elections, the Quartet (the United States, Russia, United Nations and European Union) made future foreign assistance to the PA conditional upon the future government's commitment to non-violence, recognition of the state of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements. Hamas rejected those changes, which led to the Quartet suspending its foreign assistance program and Israel imposing economic sanctions on the Hamas-led administration.[43][44] In March 2007, a national unity government headed by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas was briefly formed, but this failed to restart international financial assistance.[45] Tensions over control of Palestinian security forces soon erupted in the 2007 Battle of Gaza,[45] after which Hamas took control of Gaza, while its officials were ousted from government positions in the West Bank.[45] Israel and Egypt then imposed an economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, on the grounds that Fatah forces were no longer providing security there.
Key point. Fatah lost the elections and were no longer the majority party in the Palestinian Authority.
It is the Palestinian Authority that is responsible for security not the losers of the elections.