Can Hamas come in from the cold?
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The judge said that the fact that the Israeli authorities had allowed the defendants to participate in elections suggested that they did not pose a danger sufficient enough to warrant arrest.
The seizure of almost the whole of Hamas’s political leadership in the West Bank came in the aftermath of the group’s capture of an Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit, on Gaza’s border in late June. The West Bank detentions |
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