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...religious perspective," says Zawawi. "In the mind of Imam Khomeini, there is no compromise. You believe, or you don't believe." Zawawi says the clerical rulers of Iran today, as the inheritors of Khomeinism, are less likely to compromise on Israel than are members of Palestinian parties like Fatah. "All roads lead to Imam Khomeini," says Zawawi, a Fatah official who favors peace between Israel and the Palestinians. "If the Americans expect the Iranians to stop their support of the Islamic Resistance [to Israel] in exchange for this or that, then they don't understand the Iranians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking and Listening to Iran | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...they will not interfere with any international agency that wants to help rebuild Gaza. But the inter-Palestinian tug-of-war over aid has already begun: On Wednesday, Hamas police stormed a United Nations warehouse and commandeered blankets and emergency supplies, claiming that the U.N. was relying on pro-Fatah agencies who were only distributing aid to their own supporters. The U.N. on Friday suspended deliveries until it has guarantees that it can distribute aid unfettered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rift Between Hamas and Fatah Grows After Gaza | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

...Hamas has only offered a macabre concession to Fatah. The bodies of those it has executed on suspicion of collaboration, according to one Gazan close to Hamas, were then carted to the battlefield so that their families might believe they had been "martyred" in the battle against the Israelis. But in the claustrophobic world of Gaza's clans and families, nobody is under any illusions about how and why they died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rift Between Hamas and Fatah Grows After Gaza | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

...Abbas did not go to Gaza during the fighting to show solidarity with its residents, or organize blood or food help for Gaza's victims. Says Diana Buttu, a lawyer and ex-adviser on the Palestinian team that negotiated with Israelis, "The problems of Palestine are much bigger than Fatah versus Hamas, but Abbas tried to turn it into that. He couldn't see beyond the petty differences, even as his people were dying in Gaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rift Between Hamas and Fatah Grows After Gaza | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

...opinion survey released Thursday by an independent Palestinian polling organization found that Hamas would beat Fatah if a new Palestinian Authority election were held today, and that Hamas acting premier Ismail Haniyeh is the leader most trusted in the West Bank and Gaza. And, as Abbas' own standing falls, so do his prospects of convincing Hamas and other Palestinians that peace may still be possible with the Israelis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rift Between Hamas and Fatah Grows After Gaza | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

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