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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 July 26 - August 1 2009
The sixth General Conference of Fatah is due to begin Tuesday in Bethlehem. As was expected, the GC has created a storm within the movement that threatens to overshadow the meeting itself, with long-term ramifications for the future of Fatah. The preparations for the GC have ostensibly been completed. A location has been chosen for the event and most of the delegates who are due to come from outside the Territories are already on their way to the... more |
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Week
of July 19 - 25 2009
The preparations for Fatah’s General Conference, assembling in Bethlehem on August 4th are accelerating, and as expected they are overshadowing any other issue on the Palestinian agenda, mainly the Fatah-Hamas dialogues postponed to the end of August. Despite the fact that the PA Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas and his supporters refer to the Conference as a stated fact, and A’bbas had toured the venue- the Terra-Santa Faculty in Bethlehem, there are significant details that... more |
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Week
of July 12 - 18 2009
Statements made by Farouq AlQadoumi, Fatah’s Secretary General and head of Fatah’s Politburo, condemning the PA Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas and his ally Muhammad Dahlan, have led to an earthquake within Fatah this past week. Merely two and a half weeks prior to Fatah’s sixth Conference in Bethlehem, in which Fatah’s institutions are expected to be elected- the Central Committee as well as the... more |
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Week
of July 5 - 11 2009
The deliberations between Fatah and Hamas attempting to reach an agreement have continued over the past week, mediated by Egypt. An Egyptian security delegation led by General Muhammad Ibrahim, serving as the Minister of Intelligence Omar Suleiman’s assistant, , had visited Damascus last week, where it met with the Hamas leadership, and towards the end of the week it had arrived in... more |
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Week
of June 28 - July 4 2009
The main issue this past week was the failed sixth round of deliberations in Cairo between the Fatah and Hamas delegations, as well as setting July 25th as a new deadline for a seventh round of deliberations. Not surprisingly, the failed deliberations have led to a new round of mutual accusations as well as an increased public exasperation with the two organizations who have agreed among themselves to turn the... more |
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Week
of June 21 - 27 2009
The main issue this past week was the political speech made by Khaled Masha’l, head of Hamas’ Politburo, defining Hamas’ current political guidelines in light of US President Barak Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speeches earlier this month. Masha’l’s speech was significant in light of the fact that the PA Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas had abstained from making a similar speech as well as in light of the negotiations mediated by the... more |
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Week
of June 14 - 20 2009
Following the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech last week in which he had accepted the two-state solution, Khaled Masha’l, head of Hamas’ Politburo alongside other senior members of Hamas have been involved in diplomatic preparations for Masha’l’s programmatic speech (which was scheduled for the end of the week but was postponed, presumably on account of the events in Iran and an attempt to choose the ideal timing in regards to the international and... more |
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Week
of June 7 - 13 2009
This past week’s main issues of interest were the continued political negotiations following the US President Barak Obama’s speech on June 4th, mainly the negotiations regarding Israel (Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s expected speech), as well as the Palestinian side in regards to continuing the deliberations between Hamas and the PA, managed by Egypt. Over the past week, head of Hamas’ Politburo, Khaled Masha’l, had arrived in Egypt for the first time since the... more |
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Week
of May 31 - June 6 2009
Alongside the US President Barak Obama’s speech in Cairo this week, the center of attention was two armed incidents between the Palestinian Security Services and the Hamas "I’zza-din alQassam Brigades" military wing operatives in the Qalqilyyah area in which nine Palestinians were killed (4 Hamas operatives, among them the military wing commander in the Qalqilyyah area Muhammad Saman and several of his assistants, as well as... more |
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Week
of May 24 - 30 2009
PA Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas’visit to the USA last week (preceded bya visit by the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu) and the US President Barak Obama’s anticipated speech in Cairo on June 7th in which he is expected to outline his Middle East design, are able to somewhat clarify the political state of affairs as well as both sides’ current position. In regards to the political aspect of the relationsbetween Israel and the... more |
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