United Nations Must End Hamas and PLO Stranglehold On Power

"The United Nations effort to create a second Arab State in former Palestine-in addition to Jordan-has suffered another death blow following the Palestinian Supreme Court ordering the suspension of local elections in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and the Gaza Strip scheduled for October 8.

No parliamentary elections have been held since the 2006 - which Hamas won-but which the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) refused to accept... No Palestinian presidential election has been held since PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was elected in 2005...

The United Nations has failed to insist that elections be held to enable such stranglehold on power to end and allow the people to have their say on who should govern them-the 'self-determination' the United Nations has long been demanding but is being denied by Hamas and the PLO...

The United Nations should be demanding that Hamas and the PLO end their decade-long occupation of power by allowing their respective populations the right to vote in internationally supervised elections.

'End the occupation' would then become a meaningful metaphor rather than a meaningless signpost that continues to lead to nowhere."