Suddenly, it's 'advantage Fatah', and a solution

Has the just-ended Fatah party convention, concluded in a cavalcade of personnel change, affected the prospects for a two-state solution that might finally resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Even more than the dramatic shift of power from the old guard of politicians who had returned from exile to the middle-aged generation that grew up within Palestine battling the Israeli Occupation, the importance of the convention lies in the Palestinian perception that this is a turning point in Fatah's favour in its troubled internal conflict with Hamas. Taken together, both these significant developments provide great encouragement for the advocates of the two-state solution, the biggest fillip for U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East policy since he made 'two states' the cornerstone of any durable regional peace.