and not the other way around. but this is inevitable as soon as all of the old kleptocrats in fatah die off and leave it in the hands of the young radical elements. like watching a train wreck, that's all.

The difference between Fatah and Hamas lies in their preferred strategies for the attainment of the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel. The rest is only poor rivalry. It is a disgrace that the international community does not yet understand that there is no difference in goals of Hamas and Fatah : both are commited to Israel’s destruction. No concessions from Israel can change that fact as explained at : http://xrl.us/bju8k

With Olmert preempting Israel, the Islamist-Jihadists are now uniting to intensify their effort in crusading their Jihadism on Israel. Israel and the world should not forget that the ultimate goal of the dark forces is the destruction of Israel as stipulated in their Charter. It is time Israel has a change of leadership through a National Election to revert its erosion in the face of these internal and external challenges to its national security interests.

Hamas is poised to take over the PLO occupied territories. This will be very bloody, almost a genocide. But we saw this in Gaza. The Islamofascists have no morality, no shame or remorse and certainly no mercy.

This month marks 15 painful years since the Arafat-Rabin handshake on the White House lawn. Palestinian children who started school when the Oslo Agreement was signed in 1993 are now young adults. They have not known a day of true freedom or genuine security in their lives. Oslo offered peace on a timetable, freedom doled out in stages. Its promise was derailed by increased Israeli settlement construction, restrictions on Palestinian movement and, correspondingly, by violent resistance to occupation from some Palestinians. Israel's continued settlement expansion and land confiscation in the West Bank makes physical separation of our two peoples increasingly impossible. The number of Israeli settlers in the Palestinian West Bank grew by approximately 85 percent after the Oslo accords were signed. Palestine is impatient for its freedom. Yet partial peace, as proposed again by current interlocutors, is not the way forward. Partial freedom is a contradiction in terms. Either a Palestinian lives free or continues to live under the yoke of Israeli military occupation. Palestinian daily reality worsens. Palestinians are walled into shrinking pockets of land, reminiscent of the Bantustans of South Africa. Increasingly, Israel confines Palestinians to separate and inferior roads. Israeli leaders insist that Jerusalem not be physically divided. Although Jerusalem's sovereignty must be divided, the city itself can be shared as the capital of two states -- east for Palestine and west for Israel. While claiming to abhor dividing the city in half, Israel nonetheless splits the city through its complex of walls, tunnels and laws that segregate and discriminate between Muslim and Christian Palestinians and Israeli Jews. Israel continues to encircle the holy city with exclusively Jewish settlements that sever it from the rest of the occupied West Bank. The irony is that although Israel possesses the strongest military in the region, its might cannot guarantee security for its people. The lesson of the last 15 years is that only a just peace can bring true security to Israel and Palestine. What is often overlooked is the enormous historic compromise Palestinians already made in accepting the two-state solution and the creation of a Palestinain state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on only 22 percent of our historic homeland. No responsible leader could agree to a peace that further erodes this tiny territory and strips away even more of its natural resources, historic sites and beautiful landscapes. And no responsible leader will accept a "peace plan" that repackages the occupation and makes it permanent. Israel says its goal is two states, coexisting in peace. . But those states must be real states -- sovereign, independent and viable. Palestine cannot subjected my to an Israeli state and a Palestinian canton. Israel cannot have both control and peace. It cannot perpetually and illegally build settlements in the West Bank, particularly in East Jerusalem, and then argue it must keep that territory because of the existing facts on the ground. During her most recent visit to the Holy Land, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rightly noted that Israeli settlement activity is not helpful to the peace process. Israel itself recognized this by agreeing to implement Phase I of its Roadmap obligations at Annapolis -- in other words, a settlement freeze. Yet since Annapolis, the pace of Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank has nearly doubled. Israel's occupation mindset must be exchanged for partnership and peace. And Hamas must come to the table, willing to discuss a true national dialogue based on the Palestine Liberation Organization political program. Palestinian national consensus and unity is a pressing need for our people who are thirsty for liberation.

Hamas wants the destruction of the 'jewish state'? Isn't it the jews who have destroyed the Palestinians? Of course it is. The Palestinians have hardly flourished since jews took their land fifty odd years ago. Stop these repeated lies about Arabs wanting the destruction of Jews when it is you, your fathers and their fathers who have systimatically and intentionally wiped the Palestinians off the map.

You must be living in fantasyland. Have you read the Islamist-Jihadist Charter? Have you seen their atrocities around the world in www.thereligionofpeace.com? Have you discovered what makes the Islamist-Jihadists belligerent? You should read "Why I Left Jihad" by Walid Shoebat, "Schmoozing With Terrorists" by Aaron Klein, "Understanding Muhammad" by Ali Sina, and "They Must Be Stopped" by Brigitte Gabriel to understand the history, nature, modus operandi and goal of the dark forces.

And also read BECAUSE THEY HATE, also by Brigitte Gabriel

day" agreement. Birds of a feather will flock together.

PA unity. It will eventually come to fall apart in rivalries between factions, clans, even interests. They don't know unity.