Same old Story: Without a common Scapegoat (Israel), Arab Cultural differences don't get along.
It's not like the Eastern half of the World doesn't already know this, but to assume that Arabs all get along and Israel is the Big bad Wolf is to put alot of stock in fairy tales and bedtime stories.
The facts are; Arabic people groups don't like each other, so you can plan on a palestinian state, you can connive a palestinian state, you can blackmail a palestinian state but you will never get a paslestinian to live there unless he is a an american;
They just don't get along...
New Fatah leadership deepens West Bank-Gaza split
DEBKAfile Special Report
August 12, 2009, 2:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
Abu Maher Ghneim
After days of heated wrangling and vicious infighting, the 2,300 delegates to the Palestinian Fatah general convention confirmed Mahmoud Abbas, 74, as leader and awarded his chosen successor, the hardliner Abu Maher Ghneim, 71, the highest number of votes in the new Central Committee. But 14 out of the eighteen places up for election changed hands. The "old guard" which has ruled the movement founded by Yasser Arafat for decades was ousted and replaced by younger home-grown faces, notably Jibril Rajoub from Hebron, Mohammad Dahlan the former Gaza strongman, who was accused of losing the Gaza Strip to Hamas, and Marwan Barghouti, who is serving a life sentence in Israel for multiple terrorist attacks.
DEBKAfile"s Palestinian sources report that the rise of Dahlan, Hamas' sworn enemy, puts the lid on any imminent burying of the hatchet between Fatah and Hamas or the reunification of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The second obstacle to US president Barack Obama's Middle East peace program is Abu Ghneim. Abbas brought him over from exile in Tunisia to gradually take over the reins of Palestinian leadership. His approach to peace negotiations is negative. The newcomers to the Central Committee are likely to follow his lead.
None of the new leaders argued in favor of abandoning Fatah's traditional support for "resistance," amending its charter which like that of Hamas calls for Israel's destruction, or relinquishing any part of Jerusalem.
Final results of the Central Committee vote are expected Tuesday and of the 129-seat Revolutionary Council by the end of the week.
