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...Interior Ministry responded by forming its own paramilitary force under the command of veteran militant Jamal Abu Samhadana (whom Israel wants dead). Thus was the stage set for this week's gun battles, which occurred the day after Abbas went to Gaza for meetings with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, in which they sought unsuccessfully to find ways to solve a financial crisis that stands to make 2006 "the worst year in the West Bank and Gaza's dismal recent economic history," according to a newly issued World Bank report...
...Olmert: They can't just change their rhetoric They need to change their entire way of life, they need to change entirely their state of mind about Israel's existence. It's so much deeper than rhetoric. To just believe that if Ismail Haniyeh tomorrow starts using different words, that will make the difference? No way. This is a typical fundamentalist, extremist religious movement that does not think in political terms the way we're accustomed to. Therefore I'm not very optimistic they can change overnight. They can change their rhetoric but they can't change substance...