Hamas

Ismail Haniya, the head of the Hamas administration in Gaza, addresses the crowds during a rally marking the 21st anniversary of the Islamist movements creation on December 14, 2008 in Gaza City. Haniya boasted that US President George W. Bush's administration had failed to defeat his movement, which had only grown stronger. Busloads of demonstrators flooded into Gaza City from across the densely populated coastal strip to hear Haniya's speech, waving the green flags of the Islamic Resistance Movement. The rally, which Hamas television said drew hundreds of thousands of people, was intended as a show of strength in the Islamists' standoff with Abbas's West Bank-based administration. AFP PHOTO/SAID KHATIB (Photo credit should read SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)