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...help the morale of Fatah gunmen that their senior commander, Mohammed Dahlan - a sharp-suited favorite of the Israelis and the U.S. - slipped out of Gaza as soon as the fighting started. Soon afterwards, Hamas members cornered a top Dahlan commander, Jamal Abud a-Jediyan, near his home and pumped 45 bullets into him. One Fatah officer, Colonel Nasser Khaldi, contacted by a news agency, complained: "There is a weakness of our leaders. Hamas is just taking over our positions. There are no orders...
...Yuval Diskin, the head of Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service, said recently that he hoped to see Fatah rehabilitate its image and Dahlan, in particular, play a greater role. Predictably, then, he is loathed by Hamas members, whom he labeled "murderers" in January, and against whom he led a crackdown a decade ago. He also has enemies among some of the more powerful Palestinian clans, and was accused of playing a major role in the factional violence that convulsed Gaza in recent months...
...Dahlan by himself is a problem," says a Palestinian Foreign Ministry official, who wished to remain anonymous discussing sensitive issues, "but when you put him in such a position, he is more than a problem." A member of Fatah's Central Committee, who also preferred to go nameless on the topic of Dahlan, adds, "This is practically appointing him Interior Minister," the post responsible for overseeing the various security organizations, some of which are loyal to Fatah and some to Hamas. "This will bring us back to a bad situation. And it creates troubles for Haniyeh. He will have...
...Hamas had earlier vetoed Dahlan's nomination for the post of Deputy Prime Minister. Although his unilateral appointment as National Security Adviser move might reassure the Bush Administration, which has shown no enthusiasm for Abbas' joining Hamas in government, it will almost certainly deepen the wedge not only between Fatah and Hamas, but also between Abbas and the Palestinian public. "To the man and woman in the street, it seems that Abu Mazen [Abbas] is carrying out the orders of Israel and America," says the Fatah Central Committee member. Hamas legislators plan to oppose the move on the grounds that...
...region by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She plans to meet with Abbas twice. If her aim was to stabilize Palestinian politics, she might ask Abbas what he was thinking. But given the dim view the Americans and Israelis hold of the unity government, and their positive view of Dahlan, she might also be tempted to congratulate...