Reply #9: I figured his job was to restore order.

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That would be the usual thing for a new government coming to power, try to establish some semblance of order and unify the people behind them and so on.

It would be folly to pick a fight with Israel when their hold on power was not secure, which it clearly is not, so far.

But opinions will vary, and it is certainly true that he is not a friend of Israel. But then the job of a Palestinian government (theoretically, of course) is to pursue the best interests of the Palestinian people, which are diametrically opposed to the interests of the present government of Israel.