"Mouin Rabbani" is an Dutch people/Dutch-Palestinian people/Palestinian Middle East analyst specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian people/Palestinian affairs. Rabbani is based in Amman, Jordan and was a Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group, the Palestine Director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers#Member centers/Palestine American Research Center, a Project Director for the Association of Netherlands Municipalities, and a volunteer and General Editor for Al Haq. Rabbani is currently a senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies, a co-editor of Jadaliyya, and a Contributing Editor to the Middle East Report.

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The challenge for Abbas is to compel Israel to deal with Palestinians and the Palestinian agenda. Otherwise his credibility is going to suffer enormously.

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Realistically, there's unlikely to be a dramatic turn for the better or worse on security in Gaza in the near term. This will be no model for a future state.

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You're talking about a democratically elected Islamic government that is part of the wider Muslim Brotherhood network in the region.

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The Palestinians are now in a heightened state of instability, of genuine chaos bordering on anarchy and incipient disintegration. They're not in a position to exploit the room for maneuver that Sharon's demise theoretically provides them.

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Iran has problems of its own. I don't think it's going to go out of its way to create an additional one.

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At the popular level, Sharon has been far and away the most hated Israeli official for the past several decades. On the whole, people will simply take delight that, from their perspective, he's no longer on the scene to torment them.

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If that experiment succeeds, then the other parts of the Muslim Brotherhood will be clamoring for elections themselves and feel emboldened to achieve power and leadership through the ballot box.

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