Reply #4: the polls/election is now long gone....

[pelsar]

as in many things in the conflict, things change fast: the situation is now a face off between hamas and fatah with different groups taking sides (al aska, the clans etc).

whereas israel obviously prefers Abbas who, it appears accepts israel, its debatable if israel can or even should do anything. They are now involved in a low level civil war. Many of the various groups are trying to stay out of it, (israeli TV interviews)....most are very much in dispare with whats going on.

there is no real answer until this plays it self out and one of the two main groups is the "winner" a political stalemate means a "sea saw" with no one single policy.....