Word: fatah
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...Israel's strategy has been to keep Hamas-ruled Gaza poor while improving life in the West Bank, which is governed by Fatah and Abbas, in the hope that Palestinians - seeing the contrast - will desert Hamas, thus forcing it to capitulate to our demands. But the strategy has failed for three big reasons. One is Fatah, which is still widely considered incompetent and corrupt. Another is Israel, which hasn't given Abbas what politically he most needs: a halt to - or reversal of - West Bank settlement growth. The final reason is Hamas itself, which has an incentive to foil...
...pictures of Fatah-Hamas conflict...
...best to stop worrying so much about what Hamas says and try to create a situation in which we can better influence what it does. That doesn't require any handshakes between Americans, Israelis and Hamas on the White House lawn. What it requires is this: at some point, Fatah and Hamas will probably form another national-unity government, which is what the Palestinian people badly want. In some form or another, that government will most likely include Hamas ministers. America should ignore them, just as we ignore the Hizballah ministers in the Lebanese government. But we should keep dealing...
...alternative? Trying to keep the Palestinians divided when their people desperately want unity? That will only make Abbas look like a U.S. and Israeli stooge; keep Gaza a festering, terrorism-breeding hellhole; destroy much of Barack Obama's goodwill in the Muslim world; and foster war between Hamas and Fatah, and Hamas and Israel...
...pictures of Fatah-Hamas conflict...