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Weekly
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 October 4 - 10 2009
The Palestinian Authority’s refraining from submitting the Goldstone report to the UN Human Rights’ Committee in Geneva continues to serve as the main issue deliberated in the Palestinian and Arab public sphere, and during the past week it had continued to cast a shadow on Mahmoud A’bbas’ leadership as well as the entire Fatah organization. The affair, which was initiated by the PA as a political maneuver it had made in previous situations as well, made under American and Israeli pressure and threats in an attempt to... more |
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Week
of September 27 - October 3 2009
This past week was one of the hardest weeks the Palestinian Authority had endured in the political aspect since Mahmoud A’bbas’ election. Several events have led to a public protest in the Palestinian street and to an extent a general Arab outcry against Mahmoud A’bbas’ leadership, creating significant rifts within A’bbas’ own organization. Among them are A’bbas’ decision to participate in the New York summit with the US President Barak Obama and the... more |
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Week
of September 20 - 26 2009
From an inter-Palestinian point of view, the summit held last week in New York between the PA Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas, the President of the united States Barak Obama and the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, is perceived as A’bbas’ worst defeat in his career as the PA Chairman. Senior Fatah officials, members of his office as well as opinion article writers perceive the summit at best as a reflection of... more |
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Week
of September 13 - 19 2009
In the core of this past week was the attempts of the US envoy to the middle east George Mitchell to renew the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Following several rounds of "shuttle diplomacy" between Jerusalem and Ramallah, it was clear that at the moment there is no basis for renewal of the direct talks between the parties, as each side had escalated its public statements regarding... more |
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Week
of September 6 - 12 2009
Following a month and a half of stalling the reconciliation deliberations between Fatah and Hamas mediated by Egypt, the Egyptians have renewed their contacts with both sides in an attempt to renew the deliberations immediately following the "I’d Alfitr" holiday concluding the month of Ramadan. The communications were renewed through an Egyptian document summarizing both sides’ positions in regards to the issues in which they are rather close, as well as... more |
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Week
of August 30 - September 5 2009
Since the 1990s, the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and Hamas have been immersed in a bitter political and military confrontation, which has been described in these reports many times and in varying contexts, as the conflict can be summarized as a struggle over the representation of the Palestinian cause in the short run as well as the long run. As the meetings between Israeli and Palestinian ministers were renewed this week (a meeting between the Israeli Regional Development Minister and the Palestinian Minister of Finance), as well as... more |
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Week
of August 23 - 29 2009
Following several months in which Fatah and Hamas have mainly dealt with their internal affairs as Fatah was immersed in its sixth Conference and electing its institutions and Hamas was occupied with reinforcing its control of the Gaza Strip and confronting the Salafi-Jihadist groups, during this past week the two have reentered the political confrontation between the organizations. The prisoners’ exchange negotiations’ renewal between Israel and Hamas as well as... more |
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Week
of August 16 - 22 2009
The PA Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas is expected to convene the Palestinian National Council next week in Ramallah so that it may expediently authorize the appointment of six new members to the PLO’s Executive Committee. The PNC will be convening for the first time since April 1996 (this Conference had taken place in the Gaza Strip in order to amend several of the Palestinian charter clauses calling to destroy the state of Israel), on account of Chairman A’bbas’ intention to take advantage of... more |
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Week
of August 9 - 15 2009
The main issue this week was the conclusion of the internal confrontation regarding Fatah’s new Central Committee [CC] composition during Fatah’s sixth Conference, which has been held in Bethlehem since August 4th. The Conference was intended to last for 3-5 days, though it was extended to 12 days, as it had concluded this weekend with the election of... more |
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Week
of August 2 - 8 2009
The sixth General Conference of Fatah, which began in the middle of last week, has continued longer than anticipated and is now only expected to close in the middle of next week. As of the time of writing the GC has approved the appointment of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas as chairman of the future Central Committee of Fatah in an open plenum vote. The conference has also completed the list of candidates for... more |
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