Another point I want to make is that Israel is now puffing up Fatah in contrast to Hamas.
Yet what did Israel do to Arafat in his headquarters in Ramallah only a year or two ago.
They surrounded his office ..more or less blew it up with him inside ,killing several of his guards and kept him in there ,a sick old man ,like a dying dog on a lead.
When he eventually died inside the ruined and surrounded wreck of a building there were many Palestinians who believed he was poisoned by the Israelis.He certainly wasn't treated with any kind of respect .
If this is how they treated the "moderate" leader no wonder Hamas wants to unite the resistance under its leadership before negotiating with the Israelis.
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