[news] Vancouver: Local Palestinians Reject Talk of Civil War

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

When Hamas forces took control of the Gaza Strip on June 15, headlines in the _Vancouver Sun_ read: “New Islamic State Looms” and “Palestinian Territories Expected to Fracture”. But what Palestinian community leaders had to say was very different...“It is not a civil war,” Khaled Barakat [said]...Barakat...argued that headlines suggesting the breakup of Palestine were illustrative of a biased interpretation of the past week’s events.

  


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