Reply #19: it is strange to find us in agreement, though for very different reasons [View All]

[Aidoneus]

on the one hand there's the corruption and rigidity that is fairly typical in bureaucratic statist entities, but more interestingly in their more recent tendency of collaborating with Israel to fatten their own pockets--essentially buying the rope that the Zionists use to hang them with yesterday and tomorrow, in order to keep a thin illusion of power today (for example, the segregation wall that Abu Ala's company is apparently helping to build).

Both of these reasons, among others, are why they're losing out to Hamas on all fronts. Marwan Barghouti may be able to stop the decaying process when Arafat is put into the ground, but that's also why the GOI holds him in their sham show trial.