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The article reports that the Israeli peace camp has failed to become a significant political movement because it could not find a peace partner among the various Palestinian movements. Some Israeli Jews maintain that living in occupied Palestine is a religious obligation and that modern European Jews are the direct descendants of the ancient Hebrews, who had exclusive rights to Palestine. The author says Secular Israelis who reject a one-state solution in favor of an exclusive Jewish state fear and mistrust their non-Jewish neighbors.

The article focuses on the stand taken by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the Palestinian National Accord Document drawn up by members of five separate Palestinian factions imprisoned in Israel. President Abbas launched a national dialogue in Ramallah on May 11, 2006 to work out the differences between his party and other Palestinian factions. He unilaterally decided on a deadline for an agreement of settlement with Israel and pledged to call a referendum if no settlement was reached within ten days. The accord document demanded an unity government.

The article focuses on the views of the author on issues related to the success of the organization Hamas in the recent Palestinian elections. Employees of the Palestinian Authority received their January 2006 salaries 10 days late. This is just the beginning of the financial troubles Palestinians are facing in the aftermath of the January 26, 2006 legislative elections in which the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, won the political high ground against its Fatah opponents, some of whom were financially and politically supported by the American administration.

The article reports that as expected and despite all previous presidential assertions--verbal, visual and official--that elections for the Palestinian legislative council would be held on time, the scheduled July 17, 2005 poll has been postponed indefinitely. The ostensible reason was to allow time to resolve a dispute over proposed reforms to the voting law. The election law and the exact voting dates were two of the major items discussed and agreed upon by the various Palestinian factions as part of the Cairo understandings.

The occupation of Palestine is based on a 19th century ideology that denied the very existence of the Palestinian people and pursued a colonial agenda asserting divine claims to a land without a people. The overwhelming and ceaseless atrocities of Israel's government leave most Palestinians with little opportunity to reflect on the moral aspect of our resistance. To this day Palestinians still have no state or armed forces. This has shaped Western public consciousness and resulted in an international bias that tends to describe instances of violence against Palestinian civilians in neutral language, reducing Palestinian losses to mere faceless statistics, while using emotional language and visuals to describe Israeli losses.

Expresses an aspiration for Palestinian Arab statehood. Freedom and the transition to peace in South Africa; Flaw of the 'two-state' solution to the conflict between the Arabs and Israelis in Palestine; Rejection of Zionism.