The Plain Dealer · 29 January 2006
CP-2006-023
For Israelis, Hamas victory brings shock — and hope
Ian Fisher

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The Plain Dealer | Sunday, January 29, 2006 International | A11 TAN FISHER New Yonk Timer TEL AvIV, IsRAEL - Arie Schmidt stopped Saturday morn- ing to place a pebble on the me- morial to the 21 people killed in a suicide bombing by Hamas at the Dolphinarium disco in 2001. The dead were mostly teenagers.
Schmidt, 56, sighed, then "01 FUTN chained one careful word to the 0133 p next on what it means now that розір72 / Hamas is the official Palestinian power. "I tell you," he began, "we Ip131S 710 think it is actually the best thing that can happen to Israel.
3121417 (011 "Because now we see the real 12730 2470 face of the Palestinians," said 3R5191*033% Schmidt, a computer engineer I1310 INTO from Halfa who considers him 30030 14* self neither on the left nor the right. "From their vote, we can 310/31 0230 understand their theory to de- помитої пітк stroy the state of Israel is not a theo
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"For Israelis, Hamas victory brings shock — and hope," The Plain Dealer, 29 January 2006. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2006-023. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2006-023
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