The more bombs in Gaza, the more Hamas’s support seems to be growing at the expense of the Palestinian Authority, already considered corrupt and distant from average Palestinians.
“The Palestinian Authority is one of the main losers in this war,” said Ghassan Khatib, an independent Palestinian analyst in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “How can it make gains in a war in which it is one of the casualties?”
Israel is proposing, with the tacit agreement of Egypt and the United States, to place the Palestinian Authority at the heart of an ambitious program to rebuild Gaza, administering reconstruction aid and securing Gaza’s borders. But that plan is already drawing skepticism. Mr. Khatib, for example, called the idea of any Palestinian Authority role in postwar Gaza “silly” and “naïve.”
Again, I am not saying that Israel should do nothing and simply allow rockets to be lobbed at them from Hamas. What I have been saying is that the response from Israel is shortsighted, hasn't worked in the past and probably isn't going to work this time. I actually believe it will make the problem worse.
*update*
As usual, Ezra does it better.
The fact that it's occupied by a verbal shrug of the shoulders is further evidence that Israel has no idea what it's still doing in Gaza, or what realistic outcome they favor.
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