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Mideast Peace Talks
Sep 25 2009, sami

Most Palestinians who want a state of their own would like to achieve it through a peace deal with Israel but there is still substantial support for the Islamist Hamas group which favors resistance, according to a new opinion poll.

The survey by New...

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