Mahmoud's strategy, if in fact it was a strategy, is beginning to pay off:
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – The European Union will resume direct aid to the Palestinians as part of efforts to support President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Monday.
And so Gaza is reduced to the status of an immiserated Bangladesh on the Mediterranean — for now, anyway.
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