Sep. 10, 2006 23:04 | Updated Sep. 11, 2006 17:04 Abbas will dissolve Hamas-led government in 48 hours By KHALED ABU TOAMEH AND AP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in statement that his Fatah party and ruling Hamas party have agreed to form a coalition government within days.

Abbas will dissolve the Hamas-led government within 48 hours, Fatah's Nabil Abu Rdeneh said on Monday.

"The continuous efforts to form a national unity government have ended successfully with the announcement of a political program for this government," Abbas said in a statement to Palestinian television and the Palestinians' official WAFA news agency.

"Efforts in the next few days will continue to complete the formation of the national unity government," the statement said.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Abbas had reached an agreement on the main principles in forming such a government said Ahmed Yosef, Haniyeh's political advisor.

Sep. 10, 2006 19:12 | Updated Sep. 10, 2006 19:17
Poll: More Palestinians support terrror
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

The latest public opinion poll in the Palestinian Authority territories shows that some 61 percent of Palestinians support "military operations" inside Israel compared with only 32% who reject such attacks.

The poll, conducted by the Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah University in Nablus, covered some 1,360 Palestinians whose age group is above 18. Its margin of error is about 3%.

Although the center did not specify the nature of the "military operations," many Palestinians interpret the term as a reference to suicide bombings inside Israeli cities.

This is the first poll in several years that shows growing support among Palestinians for launching terror attacks inside Israel. The results reflect an increased trend of radicalism among the Palestinian public.

Previous polls conducted by different Palestinian organizations showed that a majority of Palestinians would like to see such attacks restricted only to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The latest poll, too, indicated that over 62% of the Palestinians support concentrating the "resistance" within these territories.

I tagged the second article onto the first so that we can all remember that despite political games that the Palestinians may play. The Palestinian people want us all dead.

Remember that yesterday the enemy of the Jewish people was called Nazis, today they are called Palestine.