Most Palestinians said that Hamas is the most deserving to represent and lead the Palestinian people.

The vast majority of the Palestinians, however, make it abundantly clear that they do not believe in the "two-state solution" and would rather see Hamas, the Iranian-backed terror group whose charter calls for the elimination of Israel, replace the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas's rising popularity among the Palestinians means that the Palestinian state the Biden administration is seeking to establish next to Israel would soon be ruled by an Islamist group whose covenant states that "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as Islam obliterated others before it."

As published by the Gatestone Institute
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Khaled Abu Toameh is an Israeli Arab journalist, lecturer, and documentary filmmaker.