I found a certain amount of unintentional comedy in Daniel Bush’s article in Newsweek:
The Palestinian Authority is prepared to take back full control of the Gaza Strip as soon as the war between Israel and Hamas is over and is willing to hold its first national elections since 2006 as part of a broader long-term peace deal, a senior Palestinian official told Newsweek.
The Palestinian Authority would accept the Biden administration’s proposal for a reunification of Gaza and the West Bank under the authority’s control if the international community supports the reconstruction of Gaza and pushes Israel to agree to a two-state solution, Ahmad Majdalani, a senior member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, said Wednesday in an interview at a government office in Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian administration in the Israeli occupied West Bank.
As part of the arrangement for taking full responsibility for Gaza, the Palestinian Authority would be willing to hold its first national election since the one in 2006 that swept Hamas into power in Gaza, said Majdalani, an ally of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
In the light of the poll I mentioned yesterday characterizing the view of a member of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as “Palestinians” is a bit of a stretch. The PA has only slightly higher approval among Palestinians as Israel and that is none at all.
