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ISMAIL HANIYEH, Palestinian Prime Minister, urging restraint in a power struggle between his Hamas party and the rival Fatah bloc of President Mahmoud Abbas--who said he would call a referendum on a proposal for peace with Israel if Hamas, which refuses to recognize the Jewish state, does not accept the plan within 10 days...
...indicate, and he may be using the threat of a referendum over a negotiating position to exacerbate those divisions. Most polls show a solid majority of Palestinians backing the two-state option, and the proposed peace plan he put to Hamas was actually crafted by imprisoned leaders of both Fatah and Hamas, adding to its street credibility. So, while Hamas's leaders had hoped to put the issue of how it relates to Israel on the back burner while it got on with governing the Palestinian territories, international financial pressure on Hamas brought on by the U.S. and European blockade...
...made no secret that he sees Abbas as a lame duck. The Palestinian leader is not trusted by the democratically elected Hamas government, without whose consent no deal is credible, and he is pretty much ignored by as much as half of the rank-and-file of his own Fatah organization. Even at the height of his powers he had been unable to act against the armed wings of Hamas and Fatah, and his powers have dimmed considerably since then...
Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak's regime last week continued its crackdown on protesters, at right, who have been rallying against the government's decision to seek discipline for two judges who alleged fraud in last year's elections. Hundreds have been arrested, including Bit Bucket scribe Alaa Abdel-Fatah, who has become the agitators' virtual poster boy. Jailed on May 7, he blogs by passing notes to his wife, who posts them. His mood is surreal--"no feelings or emotions"; he hasn't joined other protesters on a hunger strike; and the jail has hundreds of cats. He is being...
...Many current and former PSA leaders - all Fatah members - had used their posts to establish lucrative networks and monopolies in Gaza and the West Bank, all of which was threatened by Hamas' anti-corruption campaign platform. So, says the Fatah official, "they want to take over the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. To achieve that, they need to make their own conflict with Hamas look like a conflict between Fatah as a whole and Hamas." Disorder serves their aims, but more worryingly, says the official, Abbas may believe disorder serves his aims as well, because it could undercut Hamas' assertions that...