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The struggle within

What is it that Palestinians really want -- and what is it that really divides them?

By Anne Barnard
June 18, 2006

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When Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the storm-tossed Palestinian Authority, decided to take a popular vote on what is patriotically, if somewhat vaguely, called the Palestinian national agenda, what he really wanted was to give Palestinians a chance to answer the question the world has been asking them since January: What did they mean, exactly, when they voted Hamas into ... (Full article: 1792 words)

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