Hamas is challenging everything we "know" about the Palistinian situation...
Was Fatah merely a puppet of Europe and the US, set up and financed to administer a Palestinian "concentration camp" on the West Bank with "welfare money" donated by the western pro-Zionist bloc?
We'll soon find out...
It's almost impossible for westerners, and especially Americans, to discover what Muslims are thinking these days, because "fluff news" in the US is so tightly managed by our big news outlets...
For example, most Americans think of Hamas as SOLELY a terrorist organization...few even realize the political and social aspects of Hamas....
Hence, the "surprise" after the recent elections...
Amazingly, this ignorance seems to run straight to the top of the US government as even Condi was shocked by the election results in the occupied territories of Israel, ...a/k/a The West Bank...and perhaps defacto Gaza.
But consider:
Sharon is now a vegetable and Likud is in total disary... So the west, and particularly Dubya & Co, no longer have anyone to issue them "marching orders" in the middle east...
The the result is a present condition of total flux where literally anything can happen...
So;
It's very likely that Israel will cause some "major crisis" to restore the chaos on the West Bank that the elections seemed to resolve.
Israel simply can not afford to have "peace break out" at this point, or to otherwise thwart the Zionist ultra-right's decades-long agenda to "annex" the West Bank "by settlement."
My hunch is that Israel will attack the West Bank in a major way very SOON...!
Probably done under the guise of "regime change" based on the "Afghan Model" which is apparently the Divine Right of western nations in non-western parts of the world--with the Iraq War being the ruling "precedent."
Of course Kofi and the UN will complain,...but domestic dirty tricks teams in Washington can spin the UN through diversionary "news stories" for the gullible US public.
And if all else fails a "news blackout" can be imposed on the American Public, who are still wondering why the French and Germans etal are so "disagreeable."
A major attack on Palestinians is looming...because that is "What Sharon would do!"
CHAOS SIMPLY MUST BE RESTORED ON THE WEST BANK... AND SOON...
THE NOTION OF HAMAS, OR ANY ISLAMIC GROUP, BECOMING "RESPECTABLE" IS SIMPLY TOO DANGEROUS FOR THE WESTERN AGENDA IN THE MIDDLE EAST.