MEMRI has an excellent posting about what the future holds for the Gaza Strip: http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD163307. The long and the short of it is that Gaza could very well become a Taliban-style state, which would surprise..............who? Western Europe? The U.N.? It would certainly not be a shock to me, because Hamas has always been upfront about what it is and what it wants. It's only the West that denies reality.
Here's more on the same subject, from the editors of The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070702&s=editorial070207a. It is somewhat heartening that they acknowledge the Palestinians' responsibility for the mess that is Gaza, but their ongoing, slavish devotion to the mythical "peace process" is unrealistic at best.
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