But can someone clarify things for me?
Didn’t Hamas win the last elections in the West Bank?
Does that mean Abbas has outlawed his own government??
YES!!!
You “get it”.
Psssssst. Dont tell George Bush and his Comical Piano Player Condi Rice. It would confuse them.
Yes, Abbas and Hamas, one big happy government, right?
That's not what's going on.
I think what’s happened is the same thing that happened in western Iraq. The US ad in this case a withdrawing Israel allowed the renegades (al qaeda/hamas/hizballah) to gain political leverage through the introduction of democracy and the predictable following destabilization as no strong man appears to hold the cretins together. So the decent ones meaning the women, old people and children were forced to endure these crazies and now the other guys, the bespectacled maliki and abbas have political cover to outlaw the emotional young male’s party.