Good news from the PalestÂÂinian territories is a rarecommodity, so rare that there is an understandable tendency to overstate its significance when it comes.
So it is with opinion formers across the western world, who have fallen over themselves to embrace the recent call of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, for a referendum, widely billed as the latest great hope for re-starting the peace process since Hamas was elected in January.
