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COMMENTS: Palace Intrigue
As fighting between Fatah and Hamas for control of the Gaza Strip continued, CBS' David Martin examined the State Department's policy in the "larger battle to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Yasser Arafat." His conclusion was that the United States "is backing one side"--Fatah. The amount of the backing is not much in dollar terms, $59m for contractors to equip and train the "palace guard" of President Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah leader. Nevertheless, the US "wants the Hamas government to fall."
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