Mr. Abbas is expected to pension off a number of those who surrounded Mr. Arafat and returned with him from exile in 1994 , while trying to recruit and promote a younger generation in their 40 's that grew up after the 1967 Middle East war , in which Israel seized and occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip .
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