And As For Democracy in the Palestinian Authority...

As reported:

The Palestinian leadership announced Saturday that it planned to hold residential and parliamentary elections by September.  The decision was announced in the West Bank city of Ramallah after a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization...

...The Islamist Hamas faction rejected the plan for national elections, saying that Mr. Abbas had no legitimacy to call for them since he was serving beyond his term. The Palestinians have not held elections since 2006 when Hamas won a majority in the parliament...The Palestinian Authority announced postponed local elections until July, a move that Hamas also rejected...

One people?

Oh, please.

Between 793-796 there was a civil war between two Arab tribal federations in Palestine, the Mudhar and Yamani. And then it became Qais vs. Yammani.  More background.

In the late 19th century and early 20th (British Mandate period), the in-fighting was still going on between the Khalidi Family that led the Qais faction and the Husaynis the Yamani faction.  According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. 20, p. 604, infighting was the norm: “The spread of Islam introduced a very considerable Neo-Arabian infusion. Those from southern Arabia were known as the Yaman tribe, those from northern Arabia the Kais (Qais). These two divisions absorbed the previous peasant population, and still nominally exist [as of 1910]; down to the middle of the 19th century they were a fruitful source of quarrels and of bloodshed.”

Found in this book:

Unity?  One?

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