Future Palenstinian leader has local connection

So a guy who graduated from Marshall's biomedical sciences program is a leading candidate for prime minister in a new Palestinian unity government.

He spends three or four years in a town where people still argue about things that happened years or decades ago, and he goes home and could be about to lead the government in a region where grudges go back hundreds if not thousands of years.

Did he pick the right town to go to school in or what?