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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2000343,00.html
Hamas Poses a New Threat - at the Ballot Box
(Times-UK) Stephen Farrell - During half a decade of merciless bloodshed, Hamas has inflicted more than 50 suicide bombings on Israel and killed 430 soldiers and civilians. In March 2002 one of its bombers slaughtered 30 celebrants at a Passover dinner. Another blew up 21 Israeli teenagers at a disco in Tel Aviv. Under the label Change and Reform it is poised to inflict serious electoral damage on the dominant Fatah movement of Arafat and Abbas, capitalizing on discontent with Fatah's corruption, inefficiency, and inability to curb its own armed gangs.