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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...
...know what Hamas thinks about Israel and the U.S., but Hamas wants to work to its own timetable," says Abdul Sattar Kasim, a political scientist at An-Najah National University in Nablus. "They want to build a new Palestinian society. They're not going to talk about the road map. They're going to talk about the rights of Palestinian refugees. They're not going to talk about the security of Israel. They're going to talk about Palestinian security...
...really been negotiating with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas before Wednesday's election. Substantive political negotiations between the two sides have not been held since January 2001, shortly before Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister on a promise to bury the Oslo peace process. President Bush's "road map" toward peace is little more than an empty mantra occasionally mouthed by both sides when the Americans are listening, but which neither has shown any serious inclination to implement. If anything, Hamas's victory is a symptom of the failure of the peace process...
...Scholars also question the style of the map, a hemispheric projection that the Chinese aren't known to have used until the 16th century. Geoff Wade, a Ming expert at the National University of Singapore, says the map is "clearly a hoax," and was "probably made in the last few years." He observes: "If you've seen any of the maps from Zheng He's voyages, they're in a completely different style...
...have no evidence of a word having been used at a certain time, doesn't mean it wasn't used." He says "the Great Qing Sea" was the mapmaker's way of avoiding the taboo of appearing loyal to the previous dynasty. Liu has submitted a sample of the map for carbon dating, but has not yet received the results. Still, even if the bamboo paper's age checks out, it wouldn't rule out a forgery, as old paper can be used to make a new map. Above all, adds Liu, he thinks his treasure is real because "most...