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we'll have to see---for example obama, in the speech he gave annoucing the mitchell appointment, said that the us was planning on sending significant humanitarian aid through fatah/the palestinian authority---while at the same time demanding that israel lift the siege.
what exactly this routing of aid through the pa is supposed to accomplish is obvious--what it will in fact accomplish--or if it will happen that way once they get closer to the ground---remains to be seen. within the playing out of this sort of manoevering and image will emerge of how hamas has fared.
in the short run, however, they've won.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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