By the way, let us not allow Fath supporters, and the famously unprincipled Yasir `Abd Rabbuh, who has never met a Westerner without trying to impress him, to get too sanctimonious about Hamas' ban of a book (see below)--although we should maintain our criticisms of Hamas for this and for more. But we should remember that Fath mini-authority banned many books over the years. When the same `Abd Rabbuh was Minister of Culture (who is now huffing and puffing) an issue of the Arabic journal, Majallat Ad-Dirasat Al-Falastiniyyah, was banned because it contained criticisms of `Arafat (in a book review that I wrote). The `Arafat authority once banned books by Edward Said.