A Life of Unrest

New York Times by Steven Erlanger, Taghreed El-Khodary | Jul. 15, 2007 (Special Report)
Palestinians never used to do these things to one another.

Rather than a model for a future Palestinian state, Gaza looks like Somalia: broken and ravenous. The civil war that Palestinians insisted could never happen just has, a civil war abetted by Israel and the United States in the name of antiterrorism and stability -- another policy that has failed, at least here, where a burning smell still fills the nostrils and where a masked Hamas gunman with an AK-47 recently sat at the abandoned desk of the Palestinian ... Full Story »

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 by Oliver Jones - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a beautifully written account of two men who grew up a few yards from each other in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza strip. It explores the historical roots of the split between Fatah and Hamas. Khaled Abu Hilal is a Hamas leader and Muhammed Dahlan came to be the Fatah security chief in Gaza before the recent civil war. The article contains some on-site reporting by El-Khodary from Gaza, difficult and dangeroous to obtain.

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