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...President Mahmoud Abbas has promised that A parliamentary poll will be held in January, and he negotiated a deal early this year with Hamas to maintain "calmness" until then. But Abbas already delayed those elections from July, because crushing Hamas victories in Gaza's municipal polls convinced his own Fatah party that voters would punish it for its corrupt regime in the parliamentary race...
...Palestinian Authority is in terrible trouble. And not only from Hamas. Primarily its problem lies in the large numbers of gunmen nominally linked to the ruling Fatah faction of the PLO. Over the five years of the intifadeh, they've come to rule their villages, refugee camps, or towns as gangster fiefs. They were somewhat held in check by the money Yasser Arafat sent them. When Abbas took over as Palestinian leader after Arafat's death in November, he stopped the funds. That makes these groups dangerous and desperate. They've kidnapped foreign aid works and journalists to threaten...
...evacuated land will become potentially quite violent. Ordinary Palestinians claim some of the land was originally their farmland and they want it back; some of them have secured the backing of local militia gangs to enforce their claim. Hamas and other factions, including some from Abbas's own Fatah party, claim a portion of the land as recompense for having - as they see it - chased the Israelis out of Gaza with their long campaign of violence. Abbas has signed a government decree that the land reverts to the Palestinian government, but no one's accepting that decision quietly...
...President Mahmoud Abbas and a nephew of Yasser Arafat; after gunmen stormed his house, dragged him into the street in his pajamas and shot him 23 times; in Gaza City. The hit on Arafat--a military strongman widely suspected of corruption--was tied to power struggles within the ruling Fatah Party. Facing near anarchy in Gaza, Abbas ordered security forces to find the killers, who also abducted Arafat's son during the assault but released him two days later...
...What's happening on the Palestinian side in Gaza? On early indications, is it possible to say whether Hamas or Fatah has gained more ground out of Israel's departure...