Judge Goldstone reconsiders his opinion of Israel's "war crimes"

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

Why would the PA want to negoiatie right now?  Afterall Hamas is more popular in gaza.  They were elected, as far as I can tell fairly.

Ok, so the PA makes a deal with Israel.  This would be a pretty bad deal, if you've read the leaked papers (have you seen those by the way).

Even if it wasn't though, you'd still get basically nobody happy about it.  People would move to support Hamas more, and not  less.

The PA only stands to lose power by agreeing to a deal now.

As for Israel making a deal with the PA.  They basically would be forced to if Hamas didn't exist.  Not because they wanted to, but because they'd have no excuse not to, to the international community.

I agree that the PA stands to lose from a deal made under Israel's current terms. Israel's got to man up, share Jerusalem, tell the settlers to take a hike, and then they'd have a perfectly viable deal that i think the Palestinian people would be willing to go for, one that could delegitimize Hamas if they made it.

The ball's in Israel's court here. If they don't move, then support for the PA will collapse in the West Bank too, and it'll be Intifada all over again.