Rebuild What With Whom? | Opinion Shoshana Bryen , Senior Director, Jewish Policy Center On 5/25/21 at 7:30 AM EDT Video has emerged of Palestinians fighting on the grounds of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, also known as the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The AP reported that only hours after the ceasefire with Israel took effect, thousands of Hamas supporters demonstrated against the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the rule of Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, chanting, "Dogs of the Palestinian Authority, out, out. The people want the president to leave." Violence quickly ensued. This is a glimpse of Palestinian politics that President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken should take seriously as they discuss reconstruction in Gaza. The Hamas rocket war on Israel owed much to the Hamas-Fatah civil war that began in 2007 and has simmered since then, with Hamas in control of Gaza and Fatah in control of the West Bank. Each is a dictatorship. In the run-up to a planned 2021 Palestinian election, Abbas stoked violence against Israel, claiming that Al-Aqsa was under siege and Israel was committing "ethnic cleaning." Abbas, apparently, feared he might lose the election to Hamas—so he canceled it and blamed Israel.