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April 4, 2018

How Mahmoud Abbas Fans the Flames in Gaza

For now, Hamas’s real quarrel is with the Palestinian Authority.

While Hamas’s long-term goal remains, as always, the destruction of Israel, Ghaith al-Omari and Grant Rumley argue that the organization’s ongoing conflict with Mahmoud Abbas is the factor most likely to lead to an escalation in violence in Gaza. Thus, Hamas’s massive border protest on Friday was not about Israel’s restrictions on imports into the Gaza Strip, or Egypt’s sealing of its border with the territory, and certainly not about Gazans’ putative desire to return to the homes abandoned by their ancestors, but about breaking the stalemate with the Palestinian Authority brought about by Hamas’s refusal to pay its electricity bills. Nor is Hamas the only party to blame:

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April 4, 2018

  1. How Mahmoud Abbas Fans the Flames in Gaza

    For now, Hamas’s real quarrel is with the Palestinian Authority.

  2. Truth and Lies about Entebbe

    A historian tries to minimize Yoni Netanyahu’s heroism.

  3. The Challenges to Religious Freedom from the Left and from the Right

    You can’t have human rights without human nature.

  4. Iceland’s Long History of Anti-Semitism

    It’s not just the circumcision ban.

  5. Passover in the Land of Jewish Ghosts

    The ever-dying people.