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...Union. Hamas is fielding at least 115 candidates for the 132 seats, according to the BBC. Palestinian leaders have claimed that engaging Hamas in the political process is essential to demilitarizing it, but the Israeli government has claimed that Hamas should not be allowed to participate until it acknowledges Israel??s right to exist.According to experts and recent news reports, Hamas is poised to make a strong showing in the polls against Abbas’s dominant Fatah faction, which Arafat founded in the 1950s. The militant group has performed well in local elections over the past year...
...first, by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, was prompted by the release of Steven Spielberg’s film “Munich,” which portrays Israel??s efforts to avenge the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games by the terrorist group Black September...
Though Dershowitz never actually called for targeted killings, he devoted much of his article to defending Israel??s assassination of the Black September attackers and arguing that attempting to arrest them would not have been successful. He pointed out that several nations had freed hijackers—instead of extraditing them to Israel or the U.S.—in the years before the attacks, and that Germany released the surviving Black September terrorists less than two months after Munich...
...having European countries arrest and extradite the terrorists would not have been successful. In the Sun piece, however, Dershowitz also attacked what he saw as the film’s “one-sided political view” and insinuated that the film’s screenwriter opposes Israel??s existence...
...Civilizations Avi Matalon, who is from Israel. “The momentum is with the moderate center.” Sharon, formerly a member of the right-wing Likud party in Israel, recently formed a new centrist party called Kadima that was expected to achieve a large victory in Israel??s March 28 elections. Some, including Israeli citizen Yakir A. Reshef ’09, said they were concerned that Kadima would be hurt, in the election, by Sharon’s stroke. “[Kadima] had a lot of momentum going before this happened...