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The Hamas-Fatah photo war

July 23rd, 2007 · 7 Comments

There is a great reader comment thread on Al Jazeera sparked by the posting of a bunch of what look like personal photographs showing Mohammad Dahlan laughing gayly with Israeli army officers and politicians.

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Another reader fired back with pictures of his own, including this one showing Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad kissing an orthodox Jew and Hamas’ Mahmoud al Zahar.

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Tags: Fatah · Hamas

7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Linda Grant // Jul 23, 2007 at 8:43 am

    Oy! Male on male snogging is supposed to be an Abomination.

  • 2 Kebz // Jul 23, 2007 at 9:27 am

    He must make an evasive manoeuvre at the last second, diverting to the cheek.

  • 3 Rinat // Jul 23, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    Charles, I just looked for an e-mail contact and didn’t find. Write me if you have time. I would like to invite your for coffee in TLV..
    Let me know if you are around.
    Cheers!

  • 4 Mäuseliebhaber // Jul 26, 2007 at 4:36 am

    Btw. [On the Palestinian side, Abbas appointed] Hussein al-Sheikh [to run the Civil Affairs Administration, responsible for coordination with Israel in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Al-Sheikh is a former leader of the Tanzim, a Fatah militia.]

    What can we expect from al-Sheikh? It seems, Fatah has “parked” him in this meaningless position. Count traders… not very satisfying for him.

    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/886542.html

  • 5 Mullah hassan // Mar 5, 2008 at 4:11 am

    Don’t mess with brother Ahmedinejad. He is kissing a Jewish Holocaust denier who hates Israel like us Arabs do. This pic was taken in Tehran. As for Dahlan, this thug is a mega traiter and should be hanged and soon

  • 6 the ozz // Apr 18, 2008 at 7:48 am

    Good photoshop …

  • 7 kral // May 19, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    Good photoshop :D :D

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