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...years, the Islamist gunmen of Hamas have been the kings of Gaza. But they ruled from the shadows, only venturing out at night, clad in black masks, nervously keeping a finger on the trigger even when they reluctantly agreed to talk to a journalist. But on a recent day in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood, two white jeeps roll up to an auto shop trailing the green flags of Hamas. The burly, bearded drivers step out, clad in black T-shirts, olive pants, and matching green Hamas baseball caps decorated with the opening verse of the Koran. Since Israel...
...sure sign of Hamas's emergence from the shadows is its new media office in central Gaza. Thickset, bearded men lean against the walls, watchfully. The only furniture in the otherwise empty suite is a brand new desk, behind which sits Sami Abu Zuhry, a trim 38-year-old history Professor recently named Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip. Abu Zuhry rejects suggestions that Hamas wants to take over Gaza now the Israelis are gone. "We don't want control," he says. "We want elections...
...Palestinian 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...
...calmness" ends, Israel fears Hamas may launch new operations from the West Bank. Hamas believes its bombs and rockets drove the Israelis out of Gaza, its sees little reason not to continue the same strategy in the West Bank...
...Sharon's Gaza Gambit Your verbatim item quoted a statement by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Ariel Sharon's leadership [Sept. 12]: "Sharon gave and gave and gave some more, and the Palestinians got more and more and more. And what did we get in return? The answer is: nothing, nothing and nothing." I don't agree. The world saw Prime Minister Sharon make a very painful decision for the long-term well-being of his people that demonstrated shrewd strategic thinking. Akira Yamanaka Kanagawa, Japan...