1.0 link 53054 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/hamas-holds-the-high-card_b_53054.html Forty years ago, I entered the Gaza Strip--soon after Israel had conquered that teeming caldron of humanity after defeating Egypt in the Six-Day War--to report on the Israelis' bubbling optimism about their young nation's future. "Come back in 10 years and you won't recognize the place," an Israeli general told me, spelling out visions of economic development and a grateful Arab population. Similar predictions were made for the West Bank, which had been administered by Jordan in a somewhat more...

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