Hamas has openly declared they're going to roll the West Bank and help themselves to the cutting-edge weapons that the entire world is supplying to Abbas:

The militant Islamic organization Hamas... would take over the West Bank if Israel pulled out of the territory... The comments [were made] by deposed Palestinian foreign minister Mahmoud al-Zahar... "Israel says the party in Ramallah [Fatah] serves Israel, and if Israel quits the West Bank, Hamas will take it over. And we say this is true," Zahar said at a rally for Hamas supporters in Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

They've also openly declared that they're going to suspend Annapolis as soon as they take over. So what could be more natural than launching final status talks with Abbas two weeks from now?

Israel and the Palestinians will begin final-status negotiations on December 12, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced yesterday in a joint statement read out by U.S. President George W. Bush at the Annapolis conference. Speaking to reporters after the conference, Bush acknowledged that he was worried about the consequences if peace talks failed, but said: "It is worth it to try." "I don't think it's a risk to try for peace," he said. "I think it's an obligation."

Really? Really? Because we think that it's very much a risk. Our view, admittedly, is a little biased and is influenced by potentially irrelevent things like Abbas's demonstrable weakness even in ostensible Fatah strongholds. Video after the jump.