McKibben represented the second faction, which Podesta described as a "human-rights kind of strategy".
The faction which rejected this reconciliation is the Assyrian Church of the East.
He was a sympathizer with the Brit Shalom faction, which supported a binational state with the Arabs.
But he comes from the party's traditionalist faction, which remains loyal to the memory of General Stroessner's Paraguayan-style fascism.
Similar attacks had targeted politicians from Mr Hariri's pro-Western, anti-Syrian faction, which has a majority in parliament.
The clan is allied with President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, which is based in the West Bank.
The Bannon faction, which had already suffered a number of setbacks, seems to have lost another battle.
Now Mr Hashimoto has been soundly beaten and his faction, which controlled Japanese politics for nearly 30 years, finds itself out in the cold.
It is, like his earlier masterpiece "The Executioner's Song," a work of "faction," which is Mailer's term for his hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
The Palestinians are deeply divided between supporters of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, which governs the West Bank, and Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza.
Last year its former presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, opposed street protests led by a rival MUD faction, which left 43 people dead.
