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The Globe and Mail Jon Allen Published May 18, 2021 Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Jon Allen is a former Canadian ambassador to Israel and a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Nothing justifies the more than 2,000 rockets that have been launched at Israel over the past few days. The attacks by Hamas should be condemned as pure political opp...

“Fatah is due to be a loser in these elections. It is now divided between an official list that the president is running, whether for the legislative or the presidential elections, and another non-official list,” said Mohammed Daoudi, former fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and director of the Wasatia Academic Institute in Jerusalem. “Kidwa and Barghouti unified their forces to run for the elections and they have good support base, much more than the official Fatah list,” Mr Daoudi told journalists in a virtual press briefing from east Jerusalem. A poll of 1,270...

It is important to note that Israel did not stop the Palestinians in the past from holding presidential and parliamentary elections in 1996, 2005 and 2006. Israel did not even stop Arab residents of Jerusalem from running in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council election as candidates for Hamas, the Islamist movement that does not recognize Israel's right to exist and seeks to replace it with an Islamic state. Hamas ran under the slogan "Islam is the solution" and promised to end corruption and bring good governance to the Palestinians... [and] also promised voters that it would resort to ...