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Bulletin
The Weekly Bulletin, focusing on the West Bank, serves
as the basic component of all service packages. An extensive
document distributed every Monday, the Weekly Bulletin
provides information regarding the previous week’s
most pertinent political and security developments and
enables clients an understanding of the current atmosphere
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Week
of February 28 - March 6 2010
Following several months of deliberations led by the US representative in the Middle East George Mitchell, Israel and the PA are expected to commence indirect political negotiations in the form of rapprochement talks and shuttle diplomacy between Jerusalem and Ramallah. The negotiations are expected to commence following the approval of a resolution by the Arab Foreign Ministers’ Council in Cairo lat week, according to which the... more |
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Week
of February 21 - 27 2010
Over the course of this past week, there has been a significant escalation on the verbal as well as in the scope of events in the Palestinian territories in comparison to the past few weeks. The Israeli government’s decision to include three sites including The Ibrahimi Mosque, Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem and the walls of the Old City in East Jerusalem in the list of Jewish "heritage sites" which will... more |
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Week
of February 14 - 20 2010
The affair involving Fahmi Shabana, the former "General Intelligence" officer who had exposed the video tape allegedly implicating Rafiq AlHusseini, head of Mahmoud A’bbas’ office in criminal acts and moral corruption two weeks ago refuses to subside, as it continues to serve as the main issue on the... more |
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Week
of February 7 - 13 2010
Over the past week the Palestinian political arena was influenced by contradictory political developments. On the one hand (and continuing the events described in the previous report) senior Palestinian Authority officials have continued preparing the Palestinian public opinion for the possible renewal of the political negotiations between the PA and Israel in the near future, according to a scheme including "The Proximity talks" mediated by the... more |
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Week
of January 31 - February 6 2010
The Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud A’bbas, had begun preparing the Palestinian public in the West Bank for the possibility of resuming the political negotiations between the PA and the Israeli government. Following several months in which A’bbas had set strict conditions for resuming the negotiations, including a demand for a public or covert discontinuation of the construction in the Israeli settlements, including the construction in... more |
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Week
of January 24 - 30 2010
Despite the perception according to which the US representative to the Middle East George Mitchell’s recent visit had ended without any results, a different picture emerges when one refers to the meeting on Sunday in Amman between Mitchell and the PA Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas, as well as additional deliberations held by A’bbas these past few days. According to A’bbas’ confidants, it seems that the situation is quite different, as it includes... more |
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Week
of January 17 - 23 2010
The American, and to some extent Palestinian statements regarding the failed attempts to resume the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians was the center of attention this week. On the American side, the most prominent event was the US President Barak Obama’s interview to "Time Magazine" in which he had stated that the earlier American estimates in regards to the... more |
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Week
of January 10 - 16 2010
The main issue this past week was the continued stagnation in the negotiations between the PA leadership and the Israeli government, as well as the absence of an agreement regarding the renewal of the negotiations between the sides through American mediation. Despite the involvement of the moderate Arab states, mainly Egypt and Jordan in the attempts to renew the negotiations, mainly through the recent meeting between the... more |
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Week
of January 3 - 9 2010
This past week was filled with intensive regional diplomatic action in regards to the possibility of resuming the political negotiations between Israel and the PA in the near future. Alongside the meetings between the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and with the PA Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas, Ahmad Abu alGheith, the Egyptian foreign Minister, O’mar Suleiman, the Minister of Intelligence and the... more |
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Week
of December 27 - January 2 2010
This past week had signified the beginning of a change in atmosphere within the PA’s leadership in regards to the possibility of renewing the political negotiations between the current Israeli government and the PA Chairman, Mahmoud A’bbas in the next few weeks. Over the past six months, A’bbas had stated, in Fatah’s sixth convention in Bethlehem this past August as well as in several Fatah and PLO resolutions, that he is conditioning the negotiations’ renewal on the... more |
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