When the lowlife terrorist Arafat was in charge, I agreed with your sentiment. Personally, I'm willing to at least try to give Abbas a chance to prove he's really different from Arafat. His honeymoon will be a short one though.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/01/09/the_problem_with_mahmoud_abbas/
Mahmoud Abbas, Yasser Arafat's longtime accomplice -- the two men co-founded Fatah, the largest terrorist faction within the PLO, in 1965
On Dec. 29, the State Department transferred $23.5 million to the Palestinian Authority -- a mark, said Assistant Secretary of State William Burns, of American "confidence in the direction of the PA's reform program." The absurdity of such confidence was made clear one day later, when Abbas brazenly campaigned with members of the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade in Jenin. A picture of Abbas riding on the shoulders of Zakaria Zubeidi -- a notorious terrorist and one of Israel's most wanted men -- was published around the globe.
He hews unswervingly to Yasser Arafat's hardline positions -- an Israeli retreat to the 1949 borders, Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, the elimination of every Jewish settlement, the dismantling of Israel's security fence, and no limit on the "right of return" -- code for the abolition of Israel as a Jewish state.
He is no different. If there is a lull in the fighting, it just means they are taking time to regroup. The war will go on as usual. I wish I could be more positive than that, but I can't.