believed that Hamas would act in the way that it has? Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza Hamas chief, was until recently not only a bitter enemy of the PA, and of Israel, but even of the relative moderates within his own Hamas. But Sinwar became one of the key facilitators of the unity deal, leading Hamas to the dramatic, historic relinquishing of its civilian control of the Strip. That amounted to an admission of Hamas’s failure to run Gaza effectively.

So, too, Saleh al-Arouri, who has been living under Hezbollah and Iranian protection in Beirut, now bows his head to the Egyptians and gives them the achievement they sought.

And what of Ismail Haniyeh, the new Hamas political chief? Haniyeh has for years led a more compromising line on Palestinian reconciliation.Why do plants have those difficult scientific names?

Actually, the scientific names not only in Latin but also Greek and often a combination of both.

Why do plants have scientific names in Latin and Greek?

The reason is historical. Western Europe was colonized by the Romans who brought with them the script. Local languages ​​were only oral.

Highly educated Romans were fluent in Latin but also in Greek for children from affluent families were taught by Greek slaves.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, monasteries continued the use of Latin and Greek. In cathedral schools and later in universities (from the 11th century), Latin was still part of basic training.

This had the advantage that scholars from across Europe were able to communicate with each other, regardless of their mother tongue. Scholars even