If the young guard successfully expels the corrupt old guard, what will be the status of corruption? Extinguished? The same? Worse?

If the young guard takes over, will Palesinians be a more radical Islamofascist or will they set about at nation building?

I suspect the hatred of Israel will not change regardless of old or young guard, but how will a young guard Palestine interact politically with Israel?

was waged by armed elements of Fatah, the P.A. president's own political party.

Maybe the Americans should take that up with George and Condi? Abbas is the State Department's choice of moderation and peace loving in a leader for the Palestinians. Sort of funny in that Arafat was also their choice in the 80s for the Palestinian Israel had to deal with.
Rice harangued and harangued the Israelis to leave Gaza, give the gazans freedom of movement to have a "contiguous" state and as a counter gave Abbas pass after pass on his commitments to the Roadmap accord and half a billion dollars in 2005, to boot.

If anything Sharon called their bluff and we are witnessing the spectacle but unfortunately many refuse to look.

What about security undertakings with regard to Gaza's border with Egypt?
I witnessed an interview on Israel's Channel 10 of Wolfensohn by London & Kirshenbaum just after the Gaza border accord was "brokered" by Rice.
In response to a question about Israel's security, Wolfensohn said that he was concerned with Palestinian well-being and that any security problems arrising from that were Israel's problem to resolve.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasite/images/iht_daily/D040106/248bulldozer_reu.jpg
A bulldozer operated by Al-Aqsa gunmen knocking down the Gaza-Egypt border wall Wed. (Reuters)

Theway2k,
young, old it makes no difference. They want power and money. Having seen what Arafat and the Tunis gang the "youngsters" want their cut,now.

The Palestinian security forces were never real security forces; they were, and some of them still are, functioning as private militias.

Please let us not forget that the PA security force was trained by the CIA under Tenet, once under the Clinton Administration and then again under the Bush Administration.
Obviously a job well done for sniping but not for functioning government.

http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/november/11_24_2.html

But legislators said that neither the PA Interior Ministry nor the Finance Ministry could confirm the identities of those on the payroll. They said up to 25 percent of the 60,000 officers were either fictitious or no longer worked for the security forces. PLC Economic Committee chairman Azmi Shueibi said $350 million has been channeled every month to pay the salaries of a reported 60,000 PA security personnel.

Just this evening France2news had a report on Gaza: le chaos (19 minutes into the program) showing the armed militias discussing how they resort to kidnapping "to obtain satisfaction" over their grievances, and threatening to "intervene and disrupt" at the voting places.

Looks bad enough one doesn't need to know French to get the gist of the report.

Today was an insane day even before Sharon's stroke. The Gaza "security forces" rushed the Rafah crossing again, took over the border, stole some caterpillars and bashed through the border with Egypt, killing two Egyptian soldiers. [I thought I read that Egypt has now arrested 100 Gazans of those that fled over the border, but I can't find it again].

All this to protest the arrest of Alaa al-Hams, arrested on Tuesday by Palestinian police, because he kidnapped useful idiot Kate Burton. Not to mention the aborted kidnapping of Rachel Corre's parents, who were let free once they realized who they had kidnapped.

And then the Palestinian election commission quit over Qureia interference.

I can't wait to see what effect the incapacity of Sharon has on the situationa in Gaza if this is what happens when the political situation in Israel is stable.