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By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff

In the Palestinian arena, Israel managed to do for Hamas what it failed to do. The criticism from within of Ismail Haniyeh's government has died down. Hamas is once again leading the fighting, in the number of its fatalities as well. Hamas apparently led the "heroic" rescue operation from the mosque.

The IDF's operation may even end the school teachers' strike, which has been going on since September 1. Hamas was unable to stop it. The Palestinian civil war has been forgotten over the past week. Fatah's representatives in the Gaza Strip are totally busy fighting against Israel.

They repeatedly bring up the conspiracy theory - that the IDF and Hamas are cooperating by continuing the fighting. Thus, they say, Hamas remains in power, and Israel can continue to say it has no partner on the Palestinian side.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/783685.html

[Interesting editorial. I personally think Olmert is trying to boost is low popularity ratings and show he is tough on security and meanwhile he is boosting Hamas's popularity and undermining FATAH.]