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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 May 17 - 23 2009
The new Salam Fayyad government sworn in the middle of last week in Ramallah reflects a significant political change in regards to the balance of power within the PA as well as within Fatah. The government currently includes 21 ministers including Salam Fayyad himself, who will continue to serve as Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, controlling the ministries’ budgets. Eight ministers are new, and the other twelve have served in the previous... more |
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Week
of May 10 - 16 2009
This past week was one of the most difficult political weeks for PA Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas since his election in 2005. Pope Benedict the XVI’s visit to the PA territories, the preparations for A’bbas’ meeting with the US President Barak Obama (scheduled to take place following Obama’s meetings with the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak) and an American political initiative for the Middle East expected to be published in the... more |
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Week
of May 3 - 9 2009
As the several week long election process in the Palestinian territories and outside them had concluded, Khaled Masha’l was elected head of Hamas’ Politburo for the third time since 1996. Unlike previous elections, as well as unlike Hamas’ political-organizational history, mainly characterized by conservatism and caution in regards to implementing extreme changes, the current elections indicate an organizational revolution which in the... more |
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Week
of April 26 - May 2 2009
Following the conclusion of the fourth round of deliberations between Fatah and Hamas representatives in Cairo last week, it was revealed that Mahmoud A’bbas, Chairman of the PA intends to establish a new government in the West Bank PA territories prior to his upcoming visit to Washington scheduled in several weeks. Over this past week, Chairman A’bbas had declared this intention, while clarifying that the future government will only include PLO "organizations and elements", as he had clearly stated that the "organizations and parties operating outside the PLO" will not be included in the... more |
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Week
of April 19 - 25 2009
This past week had reflected more than ever the state of lingering experienced by the PA in Ramallah, Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Egypt and Israel, as well as other regional elements, as they await the formation of the American administration’s policies. The abovementioned actors are attempting to interpret the features of this policy, mainly the other actors’ responses to it, as they form their... more |
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Week
of April 12 - 18 2009
The features of the "experiment balloon" launched by the Egyptians in an attempt to reach an agreed formula in regards to the internal dialogue between Fatah and Hamas, expected to resume on April 26th, have been clarified over this past week. The proposal, hastily conveyed by members of the Egyptian intelligence to Hamas and the PA Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas prior to the end of the previous deliberation round in Cairo which was defined as a failure, refers to the establishment of a... more |
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Week
of April 5 - 11 2009
The main issue shaping this past week was the PA and its Chairman Mahmoud A’bbas’ continued attempts to maneuver between the establishment of the new right-wing government in Israel and what seems to be the lack of possible political negotiations with it, and the failed attempts to reach an inter-Palestinian reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah. Notwithstanding the US President Barak Obama’s declared intention to rigorously promote the two-state solution, the PA and A’bbas, as well as most of the... more |
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Week
of March 29 - April 4 2009
Three significant events have taken place this past week, and they are expected to define the near future; The Arab Summit in Doha the capital of Qatar which had exposed the inter-Arab controversies, the inauguration of the new Israeli government which had conveyed a message according to which it intends to end the Annapolis process (according to the new Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who had only referred to acknowledging the Road Map), as well as the failed Palestinian dialogue between Fatah and Hamas, and its subsequent postponement to the end of... more |
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Week
of March 22 - 28 2009
Approaching the Arab Summit convention expected to convene in Doha,capital of Qatar on Monday, it seems that the attempts to reach a regional Arab shared belief have insofar been futile, including the Egyptian attempts to reach a breakthrough in the Palestinian dialogue between Fatah and Hamas. Over this past weekend it was discovered that the Egyptian President Husni Mubarak will not be attending the summit, neither will the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abu alGhit, who was expected to join the... more |
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Week
of March 15 - 21 2009
Three weeks into the dialogue between the Palestinian factions, mainly Fatah and Hamas, in Cairo in an attempt to attain national reconciliation, and a week prior to the Arab Summit convention in Doha, it seems that insofar the Egyptian mediation had failed to bridge the gaps between the sides, as it had failed to find a solution for the unified government’s political platform acceptable by the international community, primarily the US. As opposed to previous negotiations between Fatah and... more |
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