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September 11, 2012

Gaza Preps to Declare Independence (From Palestine)

Jon Schanzer, The New Republic

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It's no secret that Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist faction that controls Gaza, has long considered exchanging its underground smuggling tunnels to Egypt for a policy of above-board trade. What has only recently begun to register is that Hamas may be contemplating a bolder political gambit still: Cutting its financial ties to both Israel and the Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank, in preparations for declaring full independence on behalf of Gaza.

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TAGGED: Middle East, Egypt, Hamas, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Israel, Palestine

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