Palestinians know Obama is biased toward them and against Israel but wonder...

why he hasn't already given them everything they want.***
What Palestinians really think about Obama By Norman H. Olsen, Gaza City, Gaza – ...misunderstanding between America and the Palestinians in Gaza strikes this returning former US diplomat regularly...Gazans...are intimately aware of President Obama's Cairo speech last month, which many see as a breathtaking change from Bush administration policy. But...they have little grasp...of the realities facing an American president seeking to take up their cause...Gazans I spoke with all correctly see Mr. Obama as uniquely engaging in the Palestinian conflict while they incorrectly imagine that he wields unlimited power....why can't he cut off the $3 billion-plus a year in US aid to Israel, end the blockade, and make Israel negotiate? Fatah members...relish Obama's words and his demand to end settlement construction....Obama has made this conflict the preeminent issue of his administration....The cardplayers grin,...and use their few words of English to ask when they can anticipate having jobs again. Hamas officials are dismissive, arguing that Obama has delivered words,...of Obama's comparison of the Palestinian struggle to the civil rights movement and of his engagement early in his first term. They insist that Hamas's past "concessions" went unrecognized and that if Obama meant business, he would have already ended the blockade. To them, his failure to do so in barely six months shows that he's not serious....Two senior officials...each cite the current postwar cease-fire and the movement's offer of a hudna, or the 10- to 20-year cease-fire with Israel, as Hamas concessions....they are both amazed to hear that, to many Americans, the current cease-fire appears more a tactic to avoid obliteration by the Israeli army, and that a hudna looks like a way to remove Israeli pressure while Hamas rearms and trains a new generation of fighters...
Fatah hands want relief now, both to end the population's suffering and to weaken the power of Hamas,...One Fatah leader, disgusted at his own party's disarray and corruption, says of Hamas, "suffering is the raw material of their lives." The Hamas official...asserts that a hudna would allow a generation of new leaders to determine their own future and relations with Israel. I ask him why another two decades would generate any more moderation (on either side) than the past two decades. He quickly charges that time is on the side of the Palestinians, both demographically and, if no accord is reached, for acquiring a weapon of mass destruction to strike Israel.... Norman H. Olsen is a former Senior United States Foreign Service officer..