They'll elect Hamas with a majority again in a fairly run and supervised election.as they did last time.
It is only Israel and the US who propped up the puppet Abbas.

And now even he's doing deals with Hamas.

The israeli's must be c...ing themselves.

Egypt and Israel forming an alliance. Hamas in control of a united Palestinian people. All the manulipative machinations of the clever Israelis are falling apart.

No you haven't a nuclear option David. Israel could make peace with the Palestinians and withdraw to the 1948 UN proposed map.

That might be the only option soon.

oops, Egypt and Israel forming an alliance, that was a settlement to far. Should have read Egypt and Iran forming an alliance.

David Singer, Hamas were elected in a free and fair election and it was the US and Israel who decided they didn't like it and denied the people of Palestine their voices.

Do go away.

Watch out! The Singer is on the prowl. His prey is the Palestinians, and, like his bloodthirsty comrades, he has an insatiable hunger for them.

The Palestinians he talks about live either in a totally blockaded area called Gaza, where, day and night, the IDF patrol to say nothing about, in Gazan airspace, the drones and the fighter jets are endlessly on watch or firing missiles.

In the West Bank, what's left of the Palestinians converge in small enclaves and wait to be thrown out on the street with their meagre furniture so that Israelis can move in with their bulldozers and level what once were homes. Then the area is filled with frantic builders working day and night forming huge settlements for Israelis to move into, them and Jew-only roads.

Yet the Singer has the hide to talk about democracy. When the Palestinians voted in 2006, they voted for Hamas but Israel, and its Big Brother the U.S., didn't approve of the result so they manipulated Abbas and, without much effort, turned him into a traitor (every man has his price, it seems).

So, for countless decades the Israelis have played the 'Two-State' thimble and pea trick. Never have they been serious about allowing a Palestinian State. They have used every trick in the book to sabotage it and quite a few that aren't there and the Yanks have backed them all the way.

For the Singer to write the rubbish that is this article is unforgivable. For him to pretend to be an honest broker, a neutral commentator, a peacemaker is obscene.

He represents an amoral State, a cruel, brutal, conscienceless State that has got away with murder far too long.

The Singer should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail!

Perhaps we should just stop commenting thus stop the oxygen to these litany of lies.

Interesting that no one so far is apparently concerned that the Gazan and West Bank Arab populations have not been to the polls for the last seven years.

Would you enjoy that in Australia?

#David G

What a load of codswallop.

Hamas controls all of Gaza with not one Jew living in its territory. Hamas continues to refuse the right of its citizens to have a say in their own future.

Your following claim is pure fiction:

"In the West Bank, what's left of the Palestinians converge in small enclaves and wait to be thrown out on the street with their meagre furniture so that Israelis can move in with their bulldozers and level what once were homes. Then the area is filled with frantic builders working day and night forming huge settlements for Israelis to move into, them and Jew-only roads."

95% of the West Bank Arabs lived in 40% of the territory of the West Bank under the complete administrative control of the Palestinian Authority until Abbas buried the Authority on 3 January 2013 replacing it with the "State of Palestine" and new letterheads.

Aren't the citizens of that "state" entitled to vote after seven years of enforced silence?

When will the Arab Spring blossom in these Islamic areas?

There was no problem holding elections in 2006. Why should there be any problem in 2013?

The Jewish settlements cover 2% of the area of the West Bank.

Try and get your facts straight. It does help run a civilized discussion.

Now try and convince me why the population should not have a say on the future direction they want their elected representatives to take them.

That is what my article is about.

Address it.