Who's in charge?

摘要

The walls are black with soot, the sofas burned down to their skeletal elements, the computers and telephones melted into cartoon caricatures of themselves. Compared with the battles that raged before it, the torching this week of the Arabic Centre for Research and Study, a small office in Gaza linked to Hamas, was minor. But it was an unusual symptom of how the conflict between Hamas, the Palestinians' main Islamist party, and the Palestinian Authority (PA), run by the secular-minded Fatah party founded by the late Yasser Arafat, might spread.