Regardless of PCPSR (which I don't trust) I'll reaffirm my prediction from last month: IF Palestinian elections actually happen (massive IF) Fatah/PLO and Hamas will do everything possible to emotionally charge voters and crush anything trying to emerge between them. But here's the fun part: We're already having an election before the election. The new PNC will have 350 seats: 200 from Palestine. 150 from the diaspora. Sounds democratic enough. Except diaspora voting works like this: Direct election where possible. If not? Electoral college. If not that? Consensus. And if necessary: appointment. 😘 Kuwait already went first. Congratulations, Palestinians in Kuwait: you now have 2 representatives in the PNC. Did the Palestinian community directly vote for them? No. An electoral college did. Lebanon is now using the same route. Syria, Iraq and others are part of the ongoing diaspora process. And here's the part people keep missing: These 150 diaspora seats are PLO seats. Meanwhile, candidates in the Palestinian legislative election must commit to the PLO as the sole legitimate representative and to its political/national program and international commitments. So I was preparing a whole slide deck explaining this mess. Then I realized the basic point fits in one sentence: Before Palestinians get to vote for change, the existing system is already deciding who gets to represent a huge chunk of Palestinians. The election hasn't happened yet. The pre-election has. This is largely part of why do I personally care, stateless-palestinian have no say in their fate-decision-makers.