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"Democracy" in the Middle East: switching terrorist teams.(INSIDER REPORT)
The January 25 elections in Palestine brought a major upset, with Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) winning 74 seats out of a total of 132 parliamentary seats up for grabs. Thus does Hamas, a radical Islamist military-politico-terrorist group, now replace Fatah, a radical Marxist military-politico-terrorist group, as the new ruling power of the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has run the Palestinian Authority since the November 2004 death of PLO terrorist chief Yasir Arafat, announced that he would ask his Hamas rivals to form the next government. Meanwhile, amidst repeated violent street clashes between Hamas supporters and Fatah loyalists, the U.S. and European leaders threatened to cut off their share of the more than $1.6 billion in annual aid to the corrupt and bankrupt Palestinian Authority because of Hamas' long-standing vow to destroy Israel and its sponsorship of several dozen suicide bombings against Israel. U.S. taxpayers have been providing about $400 million per year in aid to the Palestinian Authority.
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