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Jerusalem -- It would have been hard last week to imagine a more miserable place to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr than the Gaza Strip. "The feast was marked not by Palestinian children playing with fireworks, but the smell of burning tires in the streets and the flashes of bullets flying between Fatah and Hamas," Khaled Abu Toameh said in an interview, of the three-day festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Toameh, Palestinian commentator for the Jerusalem Post, added, "This was a very sad Eid." More than a year after the historic destruction of...