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Newsweek columnist Chris Dickey was impressed by a peace proposal put forward in a document by Marwan Barghouti (pictured) and…

By May 30, 2006

Barghouti_3Newsweek columnist Chris Dickey was impressed by a peace proposal put forward in a document by Marwan Barghouti (pictured) and other Palestinian prisoners. But the Washington Institute for Near East Policy wasn’t, saying “the text of the document much more closely resembles Hamas’s own political program.”

But don’t take Newsweek or the Washington Institute’s word for it. See an English translation (in pdf format) of the document now at the center of the latest Palestinian power struggle and judge for yourself.

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