Mr Haniyeh, his Hamas counterpart in Gaza, takes to the pulpit in mosques and personally dishes out dollars to his beleaguered people.In both parts of the Palestinian territories, most people accept their rulers' decrees without a murmur, for fear they may otherwise be thumped.
This will also restore Palestinian unity between a Gaza and West Bank both under the control of the Palestinian Authority, which is critical to any effort to bring about sustainable Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Whereas Israel withdrew completely from Lebanon in 2006, it still occupies or controls both parts of the Palestinians' would-be state, Gaza and the West Bank.
On Sunday, a few hundred Palestinians in the West Bank tried to organize marches around the territory, but were stymied by the forces of both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, neither of which are eager to see widespread Palestinian democracy protests.
HOW, on Thursday, did both President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and Ron Prosor, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, blame the other side for not doing enough to pursue peace?
Amnesty International wrote to the Security Council today to back the recommendation on rights monitors, but called for scrutiny of both the Palestinian and the Israeli administrations.
Rajoub, who served 17 years in Israeli jails after he was convicted of throwing a grenade at Israeli soldiers when he was 17, is now the president of both the Palestinian Football Association and its national Olympic committee.
Once this was clear, Israel should have either put out its own peace plan or tried to shape the U.N. diplomacy with its own resolution that reaffirmed the right of both the Palestinian and the Jewish people to a state in historic Palestine and reignited negotiations.
Playing politics means that the AFC and FIFA apply their rules selectively as is obvious in the case of both the Palestinian clubs and the Saudis.
