As Khaled Abu Toameh continues, "The Palestinians do not need a dictatorship that harasses and terrorizes journalists, and that is responsible for the death of detainees in its prisons. In the Arab world we already have enough dictatorships.
The Palestinians do not need additional security forces, militias and armed gangs. In fact, there are too many of them, both in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip."
One day, as so many of us hope and pray, there will be peace in Israel and Palestine. The majority of the Palestinian people, like people everywhere, simply want to live their lives without fear, violence and bloodshed and with enough food to feed themselves and their children. One day, they will realise that it's the PA who are preventing them from achieving these aims and when that happens, it'll only be a matter of time before they rise against the PA and destroy them. Perhaps they will then establish a democratic government with whom those nations that value human rights and freedoms can negotiate.
In the meantime, these latest talks are unlikely to achieve much despite the best will of those in the USA and Israel who long for peace, both for Israel itself and for Palestine. However, becoming known as the president under whom talks restarted is going to be a real popularity boost for Obama, whose public image is nowadays that of a mere human being rather than that of a semi-divine being as was the case immediately following his election. Hillary - and the US government - are surely well aware it's impossible to talk meaningfully about peace with violent warmongers, so one must wonder if improving presidential PR is the real purpose behind this?
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