Palestine Divided Jonathan Schanzer Hamas v. Fatah is a helpful guide in explaining the current conflict.
By Mark Hemingway
Jaded observers of the current conflict between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza might well wonder: What else is new? Today, in fact, theres a whole new dynamic at play in the Mideast one that may define the conflict between Israel and its neighbors for years to come.
Right now you have Israel at war with one Palestinian territory and not at war with the other. This is something that, in my years observing the Middle East, is new, Jonathan Schanzer, the deputy executive director of the Jewish Policy Center, told National Review Online.
Schanzer is also the author of the new book Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine, a book that while a long time in the making seems tailor-made to address the big questions behind the headlines from Gaza.
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