Over the weekend, PA President Mahmoud Abbas ratcheted up pressure on Hamas to agree to a new unity government by announcing plans to hold elections on Jan. 24, 2010.

Hamas leaders in Gaza immediately rejected the decree. And it will be politically perilous for Abbas and the Palestinian Authority to hold elections that don't include the 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza.

As the Palestinian political stalemate continues, the dispute is generating a new brand of satire.

First there was the Palestinian "Saturday Night Live," which poked fun at Palestinian political leaders in Gaza and the West Bank.

Now, as Omar Karmi reports in The National, Palestinians are cheering and jeering a pointed parody of the first Palestinian national anthem.

The revered song, "My Homeland," has been transformed into a much more cutting YouTube video that has been viewed more than 100,000 times.

It has been dubbed "Not My Homeland."

The simple video displays photographs of dozens of top Palestinian leaders from across the political spectrum, including Abbas, PA PM Salam Fayyad, top Fatah leaders (like Mohammed Dahlan and Saeb Erekat), and Hamas leaders including Khaled Meshaal, Mahmoud Zahar and Ismail Haniyeh.

In writing about the dispute, Maan News offered this translation of the lyrics.

My homeland, My homeland

Curse and perversity

Plague and hypocrisy

Are in your hills, Are in your hills

Tyrants and oppressors, Cunning not fidelity

Are in your sanctuary, Are in your sanctuary

Will I see you? Nothing else...

But the  original reads like this:

My homeland, My homeland

Glory and beauty, Sublimity and splendor

Are in your hills, Are in your hills

Life and deliverance, Pleasure and hope

Are in your air, Are in your Air

Will I see you? Will I see you?

When Al Jazeera played the parody during a debate between Hamas and Fatah leaders on a popular debate show, Fatah's Nasser al-Qudwa called it the "worst degree of degradation in the Palestinian arena" he had seen that day.

(Maan News provided the full translation of the parody at the end of its story on the dispute.)

The video ends with shots of Abbas and Hamas leaders meeting in Mecca in February, 2007 where they signed a largely meaningless unity deal that lasted four months -- until Hamas seized military control of Gaza and routed Fatah fighters.

Since then, the two sides have been unable to reconcile. There is renewed pressure on the two sides to cut a deal. So far, Fatah and Hamas are unwilling to make enough compromises to support a breakthrough.

As Matt Benyon Rees noted in his GlobalPost piece on the dispute, Fatah and Hamas are likely to "continue singing the same song" when they resume unity talks in Cairo...