Hamas condemned Abbas’s decision to hold Palestinian elections. As things stand now, Fatah will rig the elections in the West Bank and Hamas will do the same in Gaza. Hamas, thus, will assuredly lose.
Hamas has refused to participate in the elections. If elections are held, they will cement the separation of Palestine into two enclaves, an outcome more than welcome for West Bankers, who would hate to have pauperized and criminal Gazans pouring into the affluent West Bank.
