From: Ad 

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873561.html

Early days but often it's the early days wot matter (ask the US in Iraq..)

any way...

"The Strip is also not covered in green Hamas flags, and the
photographs of Yasser Arafat have not been vandalized. The new police
commander of the Jabaliya camp, Mohammed Abu Sisi, tells us that a new
order was issued against men walking around with their faces covered.

He also says that contrary to its predecessor, the new police force has the
authority to put an end to the violent clashes between clans that had been
commonplace in recent months. "


"On the eighth floor of a nice-looking apartment building sits General
Jamal Kid, the head of the Fatah National Security forces. No one has
touched him. He says that he decided to stay with his men, mostly because
he is worried about his wounded soldiers lying in Shifa hospital. He speaks
on the telephone a great deal with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud
Abbas and says he has not been given any definitive instructions. Hamas has
called him to go back to his office. For now, he is staying at home. "

Note the discipline in targeting the factional forces of fateh vs the
national forces. You will note how neither the police nor the Palestinian
proto-army aka the "National Security forces" were targeted.


"Islam Shawan, the new spokesman at the Preventive Security
headquarters, says he feels strange. "For years they would bring us
here for interrogation and torture, and now the headquarters is under our
control."

Why did you do this? I ask.

"You feel secure in Gaza today?" he asks.

"The truth is that for a long time I have not felt so safe in
Gaza," I answer.

"There is your answer," Shawan says. "


Do not underestimate Hamas's political instincts.

Adam

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