And I am including the one against Arafat as well as the one against me. Arafat certainly was not an effective advocate for his people, but it's not because he wasn't willing to make compromises. It was because he was essentially working for the Israeli government, and doing their bidding. However, he was still standing at the negotiating table when Israel walked away from it, so it was Israel that torpedoed the last round of peace talks.

The reason the Hamas was elected, however, was because Fatah ran two candidates rather than one, which split the vote three ways.