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Fundamentalist Muslim Palestinian women walk past Hamas graffiti in Gaza City (Getty Images)Hamas' Big Test
Today Palestinians vote for a new parliament. For the first time ever, they’ll have the chance to choose deputies from Hamas, a political party that’s also a major sponsor of terrorism in Israel. Could a strong Hamas showing nudge the group to a more conciliatory stance? Also: lobbying in NY, rock n' roll for peace in Indonesia and your calls.
Hamas' Big Test
Hussein Agha, senior associate member of St. Antony's College, Oxford, contributor to the New York Review of Books, and author, Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine (Royal Institute of International Affairs, upcoming 2006),
and
Larry Garber, executive director of the New Israel Fund and former director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission responsible for Gaza and the West Bank,
-on the Palestinian elections
» "Hamas has arrived - but there are limits to its advance" by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley in The Guardian 1/24/06
» Hussein Agha's articles in The New York Review of Books
» The New Israel Fund
A New Peace of the Puzzle
Ahmed Dhani
,celebrity singer, songwriter and leader of Dewa, Indonesia’s best-selling rock group for more than a decade,
and
C. Holland Taylor Chairman and CEO of the Lib for All Foundation
- on spreading a message of moderatism in the world's most populous Muslim nation
» Lib for All
Throwing Light on the Lobby
Dick Dadey
executive director of the Citizen's Union, a watchdog for the
public interest and an advocate for good government
and
Bill Hammond columnist and editorial writer for the New York Daily News, based in Albany
- on the state of lobbying reform in New York State and City
» Citizens Union
» Bill Hammond's column in The New York Daily News
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