[Abraham]

The Palestinian Authority has a new problem: Hamas has won the elections.

The US and the EU have declaired that Hamas is a terrorist organisation and demand that a new Hamas-led government will have to renounce violence and recognise the State of Israel.
The US and the EU are also the biggest sponsors of the PA-economy.
Hamas has as its doctrine that "the Zionist entity" has to be erased.
Most of the Palestinians seem to have voted more against Al Fatah then pro-Hamas, out of frustration from the nepotism and corruption under the old PLO-leadership. Furthermore the former Yassir Arafat party is in total disarray and hopelessly divided.

What will happen now Hamas has entered the political arena. Wil it stick to it's doctrinairy point of view about the continual battle against "the Zionist entity" and bring no progress to the political proces and a reduction of much needed foreign aid, or will it make dirty hands, compromise, recognise Israel and become a more or less "accepted", even "fashoinable" political party like so many terror/liberation organisations in the past...