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...Hamasland" has a capital, it's Gaza City. It is a tortured place where the bitter past collides with an uncertain future. Concrete office towers sit on rutted dirt streets, half-built houses abut half-demolished houses, cell phones are as commonplace as horse carts, and a skyline of satellite dishes looms over the remnants of refugee camps. Hamas has flourished in the extremes of this cramped 141-sq.-mi. enclave that shelters 1.3 million Palestinians, most of them dispossessed since being driven here in 1948. Misery is pandemic: 70% are unemployed, 80% live in poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: Inside Hamas | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

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