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hey have been repeated dozens of times without finding their way to implementation," said Mkhaimar Abusada, a political science professor at Gaza's Al Azhar University. This latest signed document may face the same fate. The rival movements have to negotiate the terms of complex power sharing and the restructurin

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 Last week, Hamas released seven Fatah activists from prison in an effort, leaders said, to create a better atmospher