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...Israel wants peace, it and the world at large should accept the election results. Hamas won on not only its political agenda but also its social and welfare programs. It is counterproductive and unrealistic for the U.S. not to continue financial assistance to the Palestinians. Hamas members like Omar Hamayel, the new, hardworking mayor of the West Bank town of al-Bireh, will bring energy and honesty to the job of governing the Palestinians. Wouldn't the Bush Administration want to see its aid spent on education, health and other sensible human issues rather than have...
...Israel wants peace, it and the world at large should accept the election results. Hamas won on not only its political agenda but also its social and welfare programs. It is counterproductive and unrealistic for the U.S. not to continue financial assistance to the Palestinians. Hamas members like Omar Hamayel, the new, hardworking mayor of the West Bank town of al-Bireh, will bring energy and honesty to the job of governing the Palestinians. Wouldn't the Bush Administration want to see its aid spent on education, health and other sensible human issues rather than have...
...first thing that people in the West Bank town of al-Bireh noticed about their new mayor was that he turned up for work on time. Previous mayors had often arrived late, if at all, but Omar Hamayel, 29, has a lot to do. Though al-Bireh is relatively wealthy compared to other towns in the West Bank, its streets are littered with garbage, streetlights and water pipes are broken and unemployment is high. "The fact that when the staff comes to work I am here and when they leave I am still here means that they see a sense...
...Whether Hamayel and pols like him succeed may well influence the future of the Middle East. Hamayel is a member of Hamas, the radical Islamic group that has actively pursued the violent overthrow of Israel, killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and rocket attacks and is listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. But 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...
...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 are now better run than they were under Fatah. In Qalqiliya, a West Bank town that Hamas won in elections last June, the Hamas council has paid...
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