Word: factionalized
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...think there's a false choice being presented in the Democratic Party right now, between those who argue that our job is to oppose everything George Bush does and cling to the old-time religion, or the DLC faction where you just split the difference and not notice that over a number of years the goalposts are drifting further and further to the right. What I think we have to do is transcend those categories... So, when I call up a David Sirota or write I to Daily Kos, what I'm trying to do is explain my views...
...Israeli government has claimed that Hamas should not be allowed to participate until it acknowledges Israel’s right to exist.According to experts and recent news reports, Hamas is poised to make a strong showing in the polls against Abbas’s dominant Fatah faction, which Arafat founded in the 1950s. The militant group has performed well in local elections over the past year, taking control of many important municipal councils. A poll released last Friday by an independent Palestinian firm, the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center, put Fatah and Hamas in a dead heat, with Fatah taking...
MPRP originally had exactly half of the 76 seats in parliament. The Democratic Party had just 28, but Elbegdorj ruled as prime minister as part of an agreement with the rival faction...
...October of 2004, when it required teachers to read the brief statement at the start of the evolution unit in the biology class. Teachers later refused and the statement was read instead by administrators. Jones said the Dover case was the result of ?the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy.? He derided the school board?s decision as ?breathtaking inanity? and said the resulting ?legal...
...Munich spectacular was designed to be just that. Black September was an unacknowledged offshoot of Fatah, Yasser Arafat's faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.). Abu Iyad, the Arafat deputy who headed Black September, later explained that the hostage taking was meant "to use the unprecedented number of media outlets in one city to display the Palestinian struggle--for better or worse...