By acquiescing to Israeli demands yesterday and preventing Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from entering the Gaza Strip with the cash he was attempting to bring in, Mahmood Abbas has exposed himself in plain view as a de facto agent of Israel.
For too long, Abbas has subverted the will of the majority of the Palestinian people by interjecting his corrupt Fatah goons and failed policies into the Palestinian political scene, answering basically to Israeli and US demands rather than serving the Palestinian people. He's a piece of garbage that needs to be swept up into the dustbin of history.
Whether by popular ouster or behind the scenes pressure, Abbas needs to go, and quick. I would advocate assassination but that would almost certainly plunge the Palestinians into all out civil war, and that has to be avoided. But it must be made clear that under no circumstances will the Palestinians tolerate a puppet ruler such as Abbas any longer.
samir: It's the usual frustration for most of the Arabs throughout the entire Arab world: the choice of leadership is between undesirable and more undesirable. In this case, they basically have to choose between religious conservatives (that represent a minority of the entire religious mosaic) and a sell-out of a faction that has proven itself incapable of standing up for its people. How bad a sell-out? The religious conservatives looked better to the majority, who are clearly not religiously conservative, to the extent that they would cast their votes against secular sell-outs. Sort of like here in the States where our "democracy" has degenerated to an exercise of "voting against". Only here, we don't have foreign powers applying strangulating sanctions on our democratically elected representatives, and thereby manipulating, well, everything.