(Christian Science Monitor) Ilene R. Prusher - Hamas and Fatah have a new political rival. A group of Palestinian leaders and intellectuals has formed an independent list to run in January's Palestinian legislative elections, headed by Salam Fayyad, the respected finance minister, and Hanan Ashrawi, a former Palestinian spokeswoman. Many of those who perceive secular-nationalist Fatah as rife with corruption and infighting don't necessarily support Hamas's continued suicide bombings and rocket attacks on Israelis - nor its plans to Islamicize Palestinian society.
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