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...television show will have a message, but without getting into the tanks, the guns, the killing and the blood." HAZIM SHARAWI, host of a new children's television show for Al Aksa TV, Hamas' television station in the Gaza Strip, which aims to teach children about Palestinian politics...
...Hamas has also emerged as a major a political force, positioning itself as the chief rival to Fatah, the party of former president Yasser Arafat and current Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. In local elections last year, Hamas won control of towns and cities across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The group is set to increase its power in parliamentary elections this week, which would make it a crucial player in any future negotiations with Israel. "We have credibility on the street," says Hamayel. "People know we're not going to compromise our principles...
...popular support by providing a disciplined alternative to Fatah, which is seen by many Palestinians as corrupt, inefficient and unable to run a garbage collection service, let alone negotiate with Israel. Hamas has long run its own medical clinics, schools and soup kitchens for the poor-mostly in the Gaza Strip, its stronghold. In last year's local elections, Palestinian voters gravitated toward Hamas because of its reputation for having "members with a clean record," as Mayor Hamayel puts it, in a reference to Fatah's many corruption-tainted officials. Residents of towns where Hamas won control say they...
...host of technical issues including GIS mapping, information and database technology, and voter registration and education. “We are providing three types of assistance to the Palestinian Authority,” Blanc, who graduated from Harvard with a degree in government, said in a phone interview from Gaza. “We are working with the CEC on a variety of technical issues, with the PLC on drafting electoral laws, and with the donor and diplomatic community on reform and making sure they know where their money is going.” The Jan. 25 election...
...crazy, given the uncertainty on the other side." Indeed, Avi Dichter--who will probably be a leading security spokesman for Kadima--sounded very much like a Likudnik when discussing future plans. "Israel is not going to try any experiments in the West Bank to let it become another Gaza," he said. "If the Palestinian Authority doesn't build an adequate counterterrorist capability, we are going to stay in the West Bank for a long time...