Several foreign players are seeking to influence the outcome of the Palestinian elections.
Dr Adnan Abu Amer is the head of the Political Science Department at the University of the Ummah in Gaza. He is a part-time researcher at a number of ... Palestinian and Arab research centers and he periodically writes for Al Jazeera, the New Arabic and the Monitor. He wrote more than 20 books on the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian resistance and Hamas.
Several foreign players are seeking to influence the outcome of the Palestinian elections.
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