Trouble All Around

There is nothing like a tour of Gaza City to show the clash of styles between the old Palestinian guard and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that swept January's legislative elections. First stop: the gabled, stone mansion of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, high walled and with enough guards to protect Fort Knox. Next: the residence of Ismail Haniya, the newly designated Prime Minister. Haniya, 43, insists on living at his family homein a Gaza slum, where the lanes are crisscrossed with Hamas' Islamic green flags and clotheslines of wet laundry. There are no gunmen outside Haniya's simple, whitewashed...

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