Two views of Palestine, The Belmont Club: thinks "Bassem Eid's analysis is far better than Juan Cole's. Eid blames Israel for many of Gaza's troubles but acknowledges that many problems also stem from the dysfunctional nature of Palestinian politics. The weakness in Eid's analysis is that he cannot identify any indigenous evolutionary solution to the problem he describes. His paper hopes for a deus ex machina rescue from possible chaos. 'It is generally believed that PA President Mahmoud Abbas will be unable to carry out necessary reforms and rebuild the security services without the support of the European Union and the United States' which is tantamount to a plea for intervention without an acceptance of its necessity. But at least Eid, in recognizing that terrorist behavior will make Arabs its principal victims, is much further along than the Western Left, which has intervened far more deeply in the Middle East than anyone would care to admit."