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There is nothing like a tour of Gaza City to show the clash of styles between the old Palestinian guard and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that swept January's legislative elections. First stop: the gabled, stone mansion of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, high walled and with enough guards to protect Fort Knox. Next: the residence of Ismail Haniya, the newly designated Prime Minister. Haniya, 43, insists on living at his family home?in a Gaza slum, where the lanes are crisscrossed with Hamas' Islamic green flags and clotheslines of wet laundry. There are no gunmen outside Haniya's simple...
...hastening the downfall of Haniya's government. So far, Israel has been careful to distinguish who is shooting before it fires back. Since the election, no Hamas targets have been attacked, but last week an Israeli missile killed two Islamic Jihad militants riding in an ice cream truck in Gaza, along with three bystanders, including a child and a teenager. Says Col. Yohanan Tzoreff, a senior researcher at the Institute for Counter Terrorism near Tel Aviv, "If Fatah continues its terrorist attacks against us, we know that it isn't trying to destroy Israel but to destroy the Hamas regime...
...leading in the polls, plans to draw permanent borders between Israel and the Palestinian territories, whether Hamas is willing to negotiate or not. That would test Haniya like nothing else. And he must know that if his militants take up the gun again, no amount of security outside his Gaza home would protect him from Israel's vengeance...
...Foreign language film. Paradise Now, an acclaimed study of a Gaza suicide bomber, and the first film to be nominated from Palestine, was an early favorite - before Hamas won the election. That reduces the chance you?ll be hearing this: "And the winner is? from the Terrorist?I mean Palestinian Authority?" So now the race is wide open. Las Vegas bettors favor Tsotsi, a South African fable (by Nobel laureate Athol Fugard) about a vicious thug who adopts an adorable infant. Two fact-based films have good intentions: Joyeux Noel, about the three-nation battlefield truce in World...
...months ago, Israeli Army officer Michael B. Oren was breaking into a Gaza synagogue with a sledgehammer. At Emerson Hall last night, Oren, who is also a historian and a visiting lecturer at Harvard this spring, recounted the traumatic experience of dismantling Jewish settlements during the Gaza disengagement.The Gaza is a narrow strip on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that—from 1967 until last August—was controlled by Israeli forces.But last August, Israel withdrew its troops from the Gaza and removed approximately 8,000 Jewish settlers from the territory.And last night, Oren transported...