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Old 01-09-2009, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by epchick View Post
Secularization? Not gonna happen. It might be better for Israel to do it (since all 3 religions are very prevalent in Israel) but Palestine is ruled too much by Islam to be able to separate them.
That's not 100% true. Yes, Hamas is an Islamic based movement, but Fatah is far from an Islamic base movement. It's more of a Pan-Arabic movement with secular ideology. Some of Fatah's higher ranks are Christians.

Fatah itself has an "observer" status with the Socialist International
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