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...Hamas clearly seems to be rising. The conventional wisdom is that Hamas will finish a strong second to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah party in the election. But Fatah seems in complete disarray, unhinged by corruption and incompetence. Its factions appear to be literally at war with one another. "It's Somalia in Gaza," a prominent Palestinian security official told TIME's Jamil Hamad. "There's a different government on every street corner." The official says he sent Abbas a memo last week begging him to call off the elections for fear of violence so severe that "there will...
...recent municipal elections in major West Bank towns were swept by Hamas, largely as an expression of protest by traditional Fatah supporters against the corruption of the leadership-Nablus, for example, used to be a Fatah stronghold; Hamas won 11 of the 13 seats on its local council. We may see a similar phenomenon in parliamentary elections. I would break down the likely vote in this way: 5 percent of voters will go to the polls to express their support for the Popular Front, Democratic Front and other organizations of the Left; 20 percent of voters will...
...President Mahmoud Abbas faces a tough decision over whether to proceed with the January 25 Palestinian legislative election. His own Fatah party looks set to suffer a drubbing at the polls, further weakening his already tenuous political authority, but postponing the vote could have the same effect. So what will...
...Guard" of Fatah, those who surrounded Yasser Arafat and now Mahmoud Abbas, are against holding the election. They don't want to lose ground to Hamas, and even more immediately, they don't want to lose their own control over the ruling party to the younger generation of Fatah activists who will eclipse them if the vote goes ahead. For the same reason, the younger generation of Fatah leaders, grouped around the imprisoned West Bank leader Marwan Barghouti, want the election held on schedule, as do the other Palestinian groups. Hamas wants to use the election to make a show...
...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...