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...with the impossible gymnastics of trying to satisfy both Hamas and the Bush Administration, Abbas has few options. If he invokes his presidential powers to dissolve the current Hamas government, it could lead to anarchy and perhaps civil war among dozens of armed militias, according to worried Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. Meanwhile, an economic blockade on the Palestinian territories, imposed by the international community after Hamas took office in March, has squeezed off all but a trickle of aid to millions of desperate Palestinians. Only by bringing Hamas on board in a government that recognizes...
...states include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, which have combined male-female life expectancies above 78 years, which is the European average. Washington D.C. is the unhealthiest place to live, with a combined life expectancy of 72 years, on par with the Gaza Strip. Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina, all have combined life expectancies under 75 years—lower than Mexico and Saudi Arabia. Middlesex County, which includes Cambridge, fares well; men here can expect to live 76.8 and women 81.4 years. The study seeks to raise awareness that America faces...
...addition to being cities where ordinary people live, settlements such as Gilo serve as defensive buffers that help secure Israel’s heartland. Gaza, which was home to 21 Israeli settlements before a forced evacuation last year, is a striking example. When Israel had settlements, rockets would fall and attacks would be launched into these settlements, but the rockets could not reach the more populous areas. Now that the settlements have been removed, rockets are falling in larger numbers on larger cities such as Askelon, Sderot, and Netiv Ha’asara. Israel isn’t about...
...authority even over his own Fatah movement. It's far from clear that the unity agreement will do much to arrest the deteriorating relations between Fatah and Hamas on the ground, and whether it can succeed in restoring the control of a single security force on the streets of Gaza, where competing militias now hold sway. Hamas will expect Abbas to deliver the release of some of its top political leaders recently detained by Israel as the price for any negotiations with Olmert, while Israel will demand security actions by the Palestinian Authority against the militants - which means Abbas...
...Ismail Haniyeh may be the elected prime minister, but he's only one voice in a complex Hamas leadership structure that combines a diversity of political instincts across its military and political wings, and across its geographic dispersion between Gaza, the West Bank, Israeli prisons and Syria. His priority in accepting a political deal that includes the Beirut principles is not to restart the peace process with Israel; it's to remove the obstacles to Western donor aid flowing to the Palestinian Authority so that the salaries can be paid and Hamas can get on with governing. Haniyeh will...