ch helped create the Palestinian militant group in the late 1980s. Gaza-based Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and former Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar are demanding a stronger overall voice in the Islamist organization, in what is becoming its most public fracture since its founding. The Gaza fact

h of the strip-40km (25 miles). The Hamas dream of "Dubai on the Med" now looks a touch less fanciful. "We are not going to live in a prison," says Mahmoud Zahar, a veteran Hamas power broker. But while growth rates have been extraordinarily high and unemployment has dropped to its lowest in a decade, Hamas