(Ha'aretz) Danny Rubinstein - A few of the Arab states pay lip service to Hamas in the form of empty declarations of support, but everyone knows that they, too, want to bring down this government because its success would send a clear message of encouragement to the Islamic opposition in all Arab states. The Hamas government may fall, but that will not greatly harm the Hamas movement. Just the opposite. It will increase support for the movement among Palestinians. The only candidates for replacing the Hamas government are the Fatah activists, but the clear impression in the territories today is that the public will not let them do so.
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