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September 20, 2012

What Romney Got Right on the Mideast

Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg

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So where is Romney wrong, and where is he right? He is wrong to speak of the Palestinians as a single entity. He obviously knows that the Palestinians are divided between two main factions: the self-styled moderates of Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank; and Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian wing, which rules the Gaza Strip.

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