The Palestinian cause has been damaged by factionalism, argues a former prime minister
Salam Fayyad believes that even now there is a route to greater unity—and eventual peace
THE HAMAS-LED attack on Israel was a case of the expected happening unexpectedly, and on an unprecedented scale. The preplanning was obvious, and the execution not only caught Israel off guard but disoriented it in ways it had arguably never experienced in the long history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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