We (both Jordanians and Palestinians alike) would always lose out if we think from a pessimistic perspective. So the Israeli Hawks win the elections, is is better for me to sit on my b—- wining about “how the israeli right” is going to take a tough stance against the Palestinians?….or are we instead going to double and triple our efforts in standing for Palestinian rights, reconciliation, global campaigning, and develop a more intrinsic civil disobedience (non-violence tactics…ITS ABOUT TIME) that would bring further international pressure against the elements that may be on the ‘other side’. While we were glued to Al Jazeera (bless their daring reporters) watching the Israeli war machine shed blood shed and chaos in GHaza, to our utter ignorance (and preference on wasting our time on trivial arabic dubbed Turkish soap operas lol) the Israeli propaganda machine was deep in hard work promoting “their side” of the (fabricated no doubt) truth on You Tube, Face Book, global media blogs, etc….

Let us not waste our priceless time wining and fretting on how Netanyahu is going to stare at Mahmoud Abbas, but rather, work collectively on building up our stance and voice globally, media wise, culture wise, blog wise etc…

2 things need to be considered here

1) The Palestinians have always had different opinions about how to face their problems starting with the Nakba, to the Naksa and beyond. The occupation started more than 60 years ago while the conflict between Dahlan (not Fateh) and Hamas started a couple of years ago. So this conflict has never been the problem, and it cannot be used as an excuse for the occupation. There were , and still is a plethora of Palestinians groups all of which have been created with the same goal, the Liberation of Palestine. SO if you want the Palestinian internal strife to end, the solution is simple, target those with a different agenda..the Dahlanians. Hamas with its current agenda has existed and cooperated with Fateh during Abu Ammar’s leadership, non of this nonsense happened. The change came after Abu Ammar died and Dahlan and his camp came to the surface…so the way I view it the cause is obvious, and the remedy is clear.

2) The Palestinians and the Arab Masses at large ( except for the few who are benefiting from the status quo) are very much united behind the resistance whether it be military, political, social or a mixture of all these. This has been amply demonstrated during the Gaza offensive, people are increasingly supportive of the resistance when and if it takes place and at the same time they are even more convinced of the futility of the so called peace process with a racist entity masquerading as a legitimate nation.

Oh btw quite a number of Israeli Arabs and Druze voted for the Zionist parties in the Israeli election.!

As for elections here giving hope…
Obama’s agenda has so many local items that the Israeli-Arab conflict could not matter less this year. This whole year if not two.

We have a new stimulus package getting thrown around and the President has been touring town hall meetings non-stop. In the midst of all this confusion is the withdrawal schedule in Iraq as well as tons of unemployment and immigration legislation being structured and approved. Next to all that is health insurance policy.

Add the fencing project in Mexico and reversal procedures for Bush’s recent tax amendments.

You cannot possibly know how unimportant the rest of the world is right now. We’re in over our heads recovering from our old president. He created so much work!!!!

thanks buddy

find it weird that you used 1948 and not 1967 … do you know why they use 1967 when talking about a Palestinian state ?

“the Lieberman-led Yisrael Beitenu party, foreshadows a near future that is incredibly dark for the Occupied Territories”

Dude ! like O M G dude, you reckon ? but i heard the dude next door say that this dude is running his campaign about getting all the right wing dingbat dudes to rally behind him in his cause to eradicate all the arab-israelis dudes! I think that means that its more about israel rather than the occupied territories dude! Since you gotta keep with the status quo and crap .So i reckon … SWEET !
…. you wanna know the other thing, that new PLO post-election, pre-draconian, full of schism system the Palestinian people are going for is the new capitalism … is the in thing. SO MINT !

so true

but the result as it stands (a near tie and thus no overwhelming majority in the knesset) spells problems for the israelis… maybe they will be so consumed by infighting they will cease to be bothered by preventing aid shipments to Gaza.. or maybe the other way round..?

What the Palestinians should think about is how to agree on a common ground for the good of the Palestinian people.