It could be argued that Hamas and the PLO are as great a threat to the Palestinian people as is Israel.
How many people do you figure have been killed by errant Hamas bombs?
Abbas is estimated to be worth about $100M:
"For many years, Rashid served as Arafat's financial advisor and was given a free hand to handle hundreds of millions of dollars that were poured on the Palestinian Authority and the PLO by US, EU and Arab donors. According to Rashid, Abbas's net worth was $US100 million."
Of course we knew that Arafat was worth at least $1B:
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