Freelance journalist and Raising Yousuf blogger Laila el-Haddad is posting at the Guardian on the Palestinian elections.
The truth is, of course, that there are no easy answers, but here in Gaza at least half of the people seem to feel 10 years is a long enough period for Fatah to have been given to the least try to provide some.
Palestinians seem more afraid of the consequences of a Fatah-dominated parliament than a Hamas-dominated one, despite the threats and concerns voiced by western administrations.
“We need new faces,” one taxi driver told me. “I won’t lie to you. I’m a die-hard Fatah supporter, but let’s not kid ourselves. All the catastrophes are coming from them: the corruption, the lawlessness, the in-fighting. The way I see it is, why not give someone else a chance?”
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