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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018221)" |
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| ceasefire that many view as a victory for the Islamist group, Hamas Prime |
| Minister Ismail Haniyeh finds his popularity having soared. Forty-eight |
| percent of Palestinians say that they would rather pick Haniyeh as |
| Palestine's next president instead of Abbas, who has struggled to secure |
| the freedom of movement and self-determination that so many |
| Palestinians once expected from his government. |
| The JMCC issued similar findings. By far the most disturbing figure in the |
| poll is the exponential rise in support among the Palestinian public for |
| armed operations against Israel—50.9 percent now view attacking Israeli |
| positions in the current climate as a credible way to express their |
| grievances and pressure the Israeli government to compromise. This is a |
| 20-percent increase from the previous year. |
| The numbers can perhaps best be summarized by Ali Najjar, an 18-year- |
| old Palestinian who lives in a refugee camp. "In my view," he said, "what |
| was taken by force will only be returned by force. Twenty years after |
| Oslo, we haven't gained one inch of Palestine." |
| Many young Palestinians agree. Indeed, the words summarize the how |
| dire the situation has become for an entire generation of Palestinians, most |
| of whom are too young to remember the signing of the Oslo Accords in |
| 1993. Most have not seen any benefit from peace agreements or |
| negotiations, and all of them have grown tired of the settlement |
| construction in the West Bank, the killing of Palestinian civilians, and the |
| internal fighting among Palestinian politicians that never seems to |
| dissipate. |
| The Corrosive Status Quo |
| One cannot blame Palestinian civilians for feeling this way. The previous |
| year was a terrible one for Abbas and his government. Settlement tenders |
| and approvals in the West Bank rose to such an extent that the anti- |
| settlement organization Peace Now named 2012 "the year of the |
| settlement," with the Ministry of Defense authorizing an additional 6,000 |
| housing units and Netanyahu pushing for the construction of 11,000 |
| homes in the month of December alone. |
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