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He sits behind his office desk, opens his laptop, logs on to the Internet and immediately opens up various Facebook pages to read about the controversy swirling around the Palestinian singer Mohammed Assef, a contestant on "Arab Idol." He contemplates writing something on the matter [which would no doubt] be inundated with comments from his friends on his personal page. He reads posts and waits to see what a few write and comment.
Taher al-Nunu, the spokesman for the Hamas government in Gaza, is one of the officials (from the Hamas movement and the government) who uses Facebook to communicate with a wider public, especially the youth, that has come to rely on it more heavily than on traditional media outlets.
