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If you read between the lines, about not giving Hamas a victory, you get Abu Mazen's subtext: If the blockade is busted or lifted, weapons will be brought into Gaza, and the first target of Iran's beachhead in Israel won't be the Jews but the Fatah and the PA.
The blockade is a big part of what's keeping Abu Mazen and his corrupt thugocrat cronies in power.
That's why, despite some obligatory, face-saving bluster, Ramallah's response to the operation against the flotilla guerillas was so muted.
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If you read between the lines, about not giving Hamas a victory, you get Abu Mazen's subtext: If the blockade is busted or lifted, weapons will be brought into Gaza, and the first target of Iran's beachhead in Israel won't be the Jews but the Fatah and the PA.
The blockade is a big part of what's keeping Abu Mazen and his corrupt thugocrat cronies in power.
That's why, despite some obligatory, face-saving bluster, Ramallah's response to the operation against the flotilla guerillas was so muted.