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Israel, though. It is also putting significant pressure on the Hamas government. Seven years after violently ousting its secular Fatah rivals from the Gaza Strip, Hamas is finding itself in a much weaker position in reconciliation talks. "Anger with Hamas is boiling, which is basically causing Hamas to rethi

h is basically causing Hamas to rethink its current policy toward Palestinians," says Mukhaimer Abu Saada, professor of political science at Gaza's Al Azhar University. Pushed toward reconciliation EFTA00651260 Last week, Hamas released seven Fatah activists from prison in an effort, leaders said, to create a b

decades, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists set aside their differences to call for urgent measures to address the impending water crisis in the Gaza Strip. These calls went unheeded. The price of inaction, protracted conflict and unsustainable policies is being paid today by the 1.7 million residents

niversity of the Negev is a visiting professor at the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Yousef Abu- Mayla is a water expert at Al Azhar University in Gaza. Anicic 7. Spiegel old CW ar in the Pacific: China Escalates Tensions with Neighbors Hans Hoyng, Wieland Wagner and Bernhard Zand 12/02

race of Palestinian reconciliation with the West Bank-based rival Fatah party, fearing the move will end the group's five-year run as the rulers of the Gaza Strip. The power struggle is likely to shape Hamas' policies in the coming year, determining whether it continues on a course of reconciliation with Fata

the radical with support from Iran and Syria, but things have shifted in the past year and now he's the moderate as he looks for a new place," said Al Azhar University political analyst Mkhaimar Abusad in Gaza City. "That's the political price he must pay. He can't continue with the same old rhetoric if he wants t