EU EURO COUNTRIES: An hour's time difference on a Gaza Strip street tests the sincerity of Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah as they profess reconciliation - Global Spin - TIME.com

Saturday, September 10, 2011

An hour's time difference on a Gaza Strip street tests the sincerity of Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah as they profess reconciliation - Global Spin - TIME.com

An hour's time difference on a Gaza Strip street tests the sincerity of Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah as they profess reconciliation - Global Spin - TIME.com

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RAYLOKESeptember 10, 2011 at 1:11 PM
If uncertainty persists, recent developments offer another option: Ask the time. Since the end of Ramadan, clocks set in territory controlled by Fatah are one hour ahead of clocks in territory controlled by Hamas. That means when it's 3 p.m. on the West Bank, it's 2 p.m. in the Gaza Strip. It's a peculiarity of Palestinian politics that makes the leap into the absurd on a Gaza City boulevard named Arabic Countries University Street. There, two tertiary institutions share a single block. Islamic University and Al Azhar University stand side by side, separated by one wall and, for the last week, 60 minutes.
"Because of Fatah and Hamas," says Bilal Herzallah, a third year business student at Al Azhar. "They take different decisions."

Read more: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/09/09/two-different-oclocks-on-one-gaza-street-cant-we-all-just-get-along/#ixzz1XaA0SHvE
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