If Israeli politics borders on the inexplicable, Palestinian politics is downright irrational.
B efore getting too high or too low about the new power-sharing agreement between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority consider the following.
In 1996 Hamas and the PA were locked in a power struggle over Gaza. Mohammed Dahlan then commander of the PA’s infamous Preventive Security Service arrested Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar humiliating him by cutting off his beard.
In 2008 al-Zahar suffered a seemingly harsher blow when the Israel Air Force killed his son during an air raid in Operation Cast Lead.
But it wasn’t a harsher blow in his eyes.
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