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Levittown on the Jordan? Armin Rosen, Atlantic. Rawabi on the West Bank will be the first Palestinian planned community.  If it succeeds, it will show that Palestinians already have considerable power to shape their own future.  

Hamas's New Friends Jonathan Schanzer, Foreign Policy. Whereas the Palestinian Authority is facing a billion-dollar shortfall, Hamas is basking in the largesse of its new Sunni state sponsors, Turkey and Qatar.