Assasination attempt? Kiss my ass, every Palestinian (every non-Fatah Palestinian, that is) knows that these explosives were planted as a response to Israel's repeated threats of a Gaza takeover. I think a more obvious assasination attempt was when Fatah fighters rired an RPG at the home of Ismail Haniyeh! Or when rounds were fired at the Parliament, the two events which triggered the Hamas onslaught in Gaza. Get a life Abbas, there can't be a 'coup' by an ELECTED GOVERNMENT!

Of course you are 100% correct. Palestinians have been poorly served by "leaders" whose priority would seem to be to their Big Power and Zionist master. This is a form of real prostitution. Heaven help the Palestinians.

Glad to see Abbas agrees with what Israel has been saying from the beginning. I guess it took a hundred or so dead Palestinians for him to see the light.

You are as much of a murderer as your brothers who are in charge of Azza. You swam in a pool of sharks (better - rats) and got eaten by a bigger and more murderous one.

We should have been getting rid of Fatah a long time ago. We should thank Hamas for doing what our negligent gov't. has failed to do. When they're finished with Fatah, then we can finish Hamas. Alls well that ends well.

At least the forum provides some hard-core humor coming from the likes of Atilla (the Hun?) - Yep - I wish Hamas would listen to you for 10 minutes. After that, all of them would become zombies and become easier targets... It is funny how Hamas talks about "legal" and "illegal" when what it has been doing inGaza is not only illegal by any standards, but also represent crimes against humanity - like murdering people by throwing them from the 14th floow, killing patients in hospitals, shooting at demostrators, desecrating churches, executing people in the streets and generally abusing each and every norm - written and unwritten. But here in the Middle East we are used to the fact that Muslims kill and murder all they want ignoring every human norm - let alone laws, but if they start losing, then they invoke the Human Rights, laws, tribunals, democracy and all the Leftist imbeciles in the world in order to save their skin. This behavior is dictated by their Quran and this is exactly how Mohammad behaved in the past. Yes, their ways are treacherous, devious and dishonest all in the name of Allah - and they call it "Religion of Peace"! Look at how many times they broke every promise, every agreement and every cease-fire - not only with Israel mind you, but also among themselves! How can one even talk with such primitive barbars? How can one reach ANY kind of agreement with them , let alone Peace! Unfortunately we are destined to fight for our lives for our freedom and for our existence until a Muslim leader wakes up from these religious halucinations and says "enough" and choses to push his people - even against their better judgement - towards progress, closer to becoming integrated into the civilized world. Until then, we fight - relentlessly, decisively and with determinaton - regardless what this or that UK boycott, racist media and crazed politicians say.

'You call for peace and stability in the region, you call for an end to rocket attacks, bombs, and murder, you call for 2 people living side by side, yet you sit here and criticize everything Abbas has done thus far. ' Okay he has been the President for the past 2 1/2 years now, what has he done? Has he fulfilled any of the obigations that the PLO undertook 14 years ago? No he hasn't. Has he ever condemned a single terrorist attack for being wrong? No he says that they are in-effective, oh my that certainly well put. 'We all know that Hamas is a group of very bad people, however, give this guy a chance to prove himself. I want peace and stability as much as the next guy and I'm willing to give it another chance. ' His organization is every bit as bad if not worse than Hamas. He was in office before Hamas and proved that he is as much a terrorists as any of them. So how many years should we give him?

IRAN is behind Hizbullah & Hamas 100%. They will help the devil if he'll help with the destruction of Israel. Don't you know the saying: my enemy's enemy is my friend !

....It does take one to know one