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Source: http://jcpa.org/will-hamas-challenge-fatah-in-the-west-bank/
Will Hamas Challenge Fatah in the West Bank?
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Pinhas Inbari - Fundamentally, Hamas is first and foremost a Gaza organization. Hamas in Gaza invested considerable resources to distance non-Gazan elements from power. Most of the well-known characters considered to be West Bank Hamas leaders have fallen into oblivion. Yet while Hamas is avoiding the political game in the West Bank, it is deeply involved in launching terror attacks against Israel from the West Bank. But in doing so, Hamas is careful not to let the military echelons in the West Bank establish a separate local command. Hamas insists that all the cadres in the West Bank get their orders from Gaza or Saleh al-Arouri, now based in Lebanon. The writer, a Middle East analyst at the Jerusalem Center, is a leading expert on the Arab world and Islam.