It is unrealistic to believe that transferring to the Palestinians tax revenues that are owed to them, removing a limited number of checkpoints in the occupied West Bank, and even releasing 250 Fatah prisoners “with no blood on their hands” will calm the Palestinian volcano, and thus enhance Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s leadership and Fatah’s edge over Hamas. Indeed, all indications are that Hamas might soon boost its popularity by exchanging Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit for even more prisoners, including some “with blood on their hands.”