(UPI/Washington Times) Krishnadev Calamur - During a conversation with a spokesman for an armed wing of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction in Gaza, I am told that rocket attacks against Israel, which Abbas has opposed, work. The spokesman, Abu Haroun, boasts the attacks have forced people from the Jewish town of Sderot to leave. Others in the room are quiet as Abu Haroun speaks. Later, after he leaves, they say they are sick of the militants and their actions that are causing innocent people to die. Hamas's spokesman tells me that Abbas has conceded too much to Israel and the West and this will eventually lead to his downfall.
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