ynetnews.com - 2/5/2009
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Surveys indicates Islamist group would get 28.6 percent of vote compared with 27.9 percent for rival Fatah faction if elections were held today; Haniyeh most trusted Palestinian politician AFP Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza, which killed more than 1,300 people and left large swathes of the ...
michaeltotten.com - 2/1/2009
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michaeltotten.com —
Khaled Abu Toameh is not your typical Palestinian
journalist. He began his career at one of Yasser...
Arafat's newspapers and today he writes for the Jerusalem Post . He has produced video for European TV stations, and even blogged for a while at ...
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A Minority Report from the West Bank and Gaza
news.yahoo.com - 2/4/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
JERUSALEM A U.N. spokesman says Hamas police in
Gaza have seized thousands of blankets and food parcels...
meant for needy residents. Spokesman Christopher Gunness says Hamas police raided a U.N. warehouse in Gaza City on Tuesday evening. He says police ...
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UN says Hamas seized Gaza food aid and blankets - Yahoo! ...
pajamasmedia.com - 2/5/2009
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AN INSTAPUNDIT EXCLUSIVE: A report from Michael Yon.
It’s Raining By Michael Yon 05 February 2009 There...
had been a light, cold drizzle just before the Muslim taxi driver picked me up in Jerusalem. It should be a 90-minute drive to Sderot, in ...
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AN INSTAPUNDIT EXCLUSIVE: A report from Michael ...
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Hamas more popular since Gaza operation
Israel Matzav —
... As I read this story, I was reminded of the commercial in the US with the fried egg in the frying pan that says "this is your brain on drugs." The 'Palestinians' must be on drugs for Hamas' popularity to increase as a result of what happened in Gaza last month. And Israel's leadership must have been on drugs to suspend Operation Cast Lead before totally defeating Hamas. Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza, which killed more than 1,300 people and left large swathes of the territory in ruins, has boosted the popularity of the Islamists, an opinion poll found on Thursday. Hamas would ...
Increasing Hamas' Power
Newshoggers.com —
... The Isrealis had multiple goals that they wanted to achieve in their Gazan incursion. Two of those goals were to stop harrassment rocket fire into Southern Isreal and to break the local legitimacy and support Hamas enjoys in the Palestinian territories while propping up Fatah as a weak and pliable political alternative. The rockets are still inbound and Hamas is reconsolidating power while increasing its influence on the West Bank, which is Fatah's stronghold. ...
Who Won In Gaza?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
A new poll: Hamas would get 28.6 percent of the vote compared with 27.9 percent for the rival Fatah faction of Western-backed president Mahmud Abbas if elections were held today, according to the survey by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre. Just as important:
Ironically Thursday's poll found that Hamas has stronger support in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, still administered by Abbas, than it does in its own Gaza bastion. In Gaza, the poll put Hamas at 28 percent against 33.6 percent for Abbas' Fatah. In ...
Why the Ghaza blockade should end!
Rantings of a Sandmonkey —
... Some of you are naturally skeptical, and will think that I am overestimating the amount of hatred in the Ghaza strip against the Hamas rule, but I am not. Fine, don't believe me: Check this poll out by Ynet news: ...
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