U.S. couldn't deliver on plan to prop up Mideast "moderates":

"Israel and the Americans repeatedly said that they would support Abu Mazen, but materially they did not," said Ayman Shaheen, a political analyst at Al Azar University in Gaza City. "We saw during these five days of fighting the superiority of the Hamas forces."

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After Hamas's bloody triumph, showdown with Israel looms:

The Palestinian civil war is about to become a wider conflict

Fatah officer: 'Our leaders betrayed us':

A Fatah security officer who surrendered to Hamas in the Gaza Strip said over the weekend that he and his colleagues did not fight because "we are very disappointed with our leadership."