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...clan level is well entrenched in Gaza, and dozens of angry families are unlikely to forgive those who killed their sons, brothers and nephews just because politicians declare the conflict resolved. And since the Israeli withdrawal in summer, 2005, Gaza is awash in weapons smuggled in from Egypt...
...came only more wars -- the War of Attrition in 1969-70, the October War of 1973. Only in 1977 did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat break the stalemate by traveling to Jerusalem to set a partial peace in motion. In 1979 Israel agreed to return all of the Sinai to Egypt in return for the formal peace treaty negotiated with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Jimmy Carter at Camp David. That event was one of Israel's finer moments, but its full promise was never realized. Sadat paid for the deal with his life when he was assassinated...
...first hitch came from the Israelis who, by late Monday, had still not opened Gaza's border with Egypt to allow the delegation of Hamas Prime Minister Haniyeh through to catch their night flight to Mecca. Haniyeh was finally allowed to pass through, and he will be joining Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas leader who has lived in Damascus since the Israelis tried to poison him in Amman in 1997, in talks with President Mahmoud Abbas. Meshaal is considered to be a more radical voice within Hamas than Haniyeh...
...clan and patronage networks. The loyalty of these forces to Abbas is questionable, Fatah sources say. The Bush Administration has promised $86 million in aid to shore up Abbas's support, and Gaza sources say his fighters took delivery last week of six armored vehicles sent via Israel and Egypt, which Hamas fears will be used against them in Gaza street battles. Since December, over 80 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza clashes between fighters of the two movements...
...showing flexibility. "We have no choice but to reach an agreement," Haniyeh said, without specifying if his militants would accept Israel's existence. Saudi backing for a Palestinian "unity" government, especially one that is ready to deal with Israel, would help sell the accord to other Arab countries, notably Egypt and Jordan...