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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/world/middleeast/16mideast.html
Reality Overtakes the Illusion of Unity in Gaza
[New York Times] Steven Erlanger - The continuing battle between Fatah and Hamas for power in Gaza suggests that the Palestinian unity government, put together under Saudi auspices at the end of March, is something of a fiction. It also makes the likelihood of substantive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians ever more distant. On Tuesday Hamas chose to attack the training base of the Presidential Guard, near the Karni crossing, which Fatah men are supposed to protect under Washington's latest security plan for Gaza. The attack seemed aimed as much at the U.S. for siding with Fatah as at the guardsmen themselves, who did not fight very well, witnesses said.