ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
SIX MONTHS IN
AFTER SIX MONTHS OF WAR between Israel and Hamas, a question hangs not only over the fate of the devastated Gaza Strip, but also over the leadership of the millions of Palestinians and their aspirations for statehood.
Hamas, which is committed to destroying Israel and which triggered the conflict with its unprecedented October 7 attack, holds a lead in opinion polls. But the Israeli leadership has said it will not relent until it has broken the Islamist faction, which the U.S. also sees as a terrorist group.
Hamas' main rival is largely secular Fatah, which leads the Palestinian National Authority that runs fragments of the Israeli-occupied West Bank under 30-year-old accords and has U.S. support to run Gaza after the war. But the conflict has only deepened Fatah's legitimacy crisis after hemorrhaging support for decades.
No individual has a mass following. Closest comes Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader serving five life sentences for murder in an Israeli jail. Behind him comes Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' political leader based in Qatar.
Mahmoud Abbas, the 88-year-old PA president elected 18 years ago, has support in the single digits. More than 80 percent of Palestinians want him to resign.
"The current war has only sharpened the PA's legitimacy deficit," Ghaith al-Omari, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Affairs, told Newsweek.
"After October 7 - even if one is to adjust for the customary spike in Hamas' popularity during the war the PA's credibility among Palestinians has plummeted as it is seen as passive and ineffectual, with no ability to impact the course of the war or bring about its conclusion," he said.
The Palestinian Authority's Fall
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