Word: governance
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...expert at plotting attacks against Israel. But now the chain-smoking Hamas military commander is trying to map out a different sort of plan: how to govern the Palestinians. The operative, a veteran of 16 years fighting Israel, met in the West Bank with other Hamas officials last week to celebrate the militant Islamic party's remarkable victory in Palestinian legislative elections and to figure out what in the world to do next. Dozens of meetings like that took place across the West Bank and Gaza Strip and even in Damascus, where Hamas has an office. Hamas leaders--suddenly thrust...
...Under the terms of the Palestinian constitution, President Mahmoud Abbas is likely to ask Hamas to form a new government. Hamas will likely make a public offer of a coalition to Fatah, but right now it's unlikely that Fatah will join them. There is widespread opposition to such a move within Fatah, and some senior leaders believe it may be to their advantage to allow Hamas to take full power, in the expectation that reality will quickly prove the Islamists incapable of governing. Some elements of Fatah may even be inclined to respond violently the outcome, and clashes Thursday...
...Aaron J. Klein: The Israeli government and security establishment has been shocked by the scale of Hamas's victory, because it was expecting the movement to win no more than about one third of the seats. But Israel is for the time being simply going to watch from the sidelines and see how developments play out on the Palestinian side. It's too soon to tell how the institutions on the Palestinian side are going to be reorganized - will Hamas govern alone, or will it share power? And also whether, and how quickly, there will be changes in the leadership...
...definitely a mentality that you have to know the moment you come in that you’re going to x-doctor or y-whatever else, but it’s the quality of your direction, the strength of your direction, that’s going to govern your success...
...seemed the Corporation might—we recognized that they had to choose someone who they could work in concert with. After all, while Corporation members may not see eye-to-eye, at the end of the day they have to build consensus and work together to effectively govern the University...