Israel and the West must help Palestinian moderates create an alternative to the Hamas government, Israel’s foreign minister said. It was not enough to bolster Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president and the leader of the relatively moderate Hamas party, Tzipi Livni said last Friday at a State Department gala dinner in Washington.
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