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This was always predictable. The Palestinian Islamist party-cum-militia Hamas (an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement) was always going to come to the rescue for its secular rival Fatah.
Fatah is one of the oldest Palestinian organizations.
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Members of the Yassin clan pose in front the remains of their destroyed houses in the devastated area of Zeitoun, outside Gaza City in the Gaza Strip, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Money isn’t the problem right now for the 32 members of the Yassin clan who...
