(Beirut Daily Star) - Ali Abunimah Abbas and Dahlan are steeped in the corruption that plagued the Palestinian Authority from its inception. Abbas built a $1.5 million villa amid the squalor of Gaza. Dahlan, too, built himself a villa, one so lavish that it began to sink into Gaza's sandy soil, and had to be propped up with special supports. A 1997 investigative report by Ha'aretz journalists Ronen Bergman and David Ratner ("The Man Who Swallowed Gaza," April 4, 1997) detailed the sources of some of this wealth. Dahlan, according to this report and numerous others, profited from a monopoly on the import of gasoline into Gaza.
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