Or, more accurately based on the latest Palestinian poll, eight years and counting…
Source:
Hamas election 2006: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012600372.html
Hamas August 2014 poll: http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Hamas-Haniyeh-would-trounce-Abbas-if-elections-held-today-Palestinian-poll-says-374296
US Senate 2012: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2012
UK election 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2010
Australia election 2013: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_federal_election,_2013
Hamas Charter: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html?chocaid=397
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/02/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-conflict.html?_r=0
CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/11/world/meast/mideast-crisis/
The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/hamas-real-chance-gaza-agreement-israel-truce
Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/israel-warns-hamas-harsh-strikes-265100
Reuters: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/16/uk-mideast-gaza-hamas-talks-idUKKBN0GG0FJ20140816
Wall Street Journal: “The third major military clash between Israel and Hamas in less than six years” http://online.wsj.com/articles/israel-hamas-talks-over-gaza-deadlocked-1407920730