...of the Palestinian Authority. Jonathan has a good run-down of the choices. The choices provide the odd opportunity to root for the Holocaust denier to defeat the convicted murderer. Ah for the "good old days" when people were occasionally shot while trying to escape.

But that's over-the-top I suppose. Perhaps this is a good opportunity for the Palestinian Arabs to show where they're coming from by giving victory to the...Holocaust...denier (Mazen). OK, so the choices aren't great, but you have to start somewhere. With the religious terror groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad talking about boycotting the election, that should dampen the effect of the murderer constituency - not that they view themselves that way, necessarily. I've seen Marwan Barghouti referred to on a Libyan blog as "the Palestinian Nelson Mandela" - yikes. Well, I'm not sure Nelson Mandela was even the South African Nelson Mandela. These comparisons get thrown around so hap-hazardly.