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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 October 19 - 25 2008
At the beginning of this past week, Egyptian officials has published the draft document serving as a basis for Palestinian internal dialogue scheduled for November the 9th. Formed after a series of meetings with the various Palestinian organizations and fractions, the document is to serve as a basis for the dialogue. Over the past week, several versions of this... more |
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Week
of October 12 - 18 2008
Hamas’ diplomatic attack last week, which took place with Egyptianbacking, regarding the renewal of the internal Palestinian dialoguebetween Hamas and Fatah, has began to have a notable effect on theinternal Palestinian arena. Asa result of this move, Fatah in general and specifically Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are currently perceived as those who resist the dialogue, and as an incoherent interlocutor for Hamas, an interlocutor that has not yetdefined its... more |
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Week
of October 5 - 11 2008
This past week’s main event was a Hamas diplomatic operation, under Egyptian patronage, in an attempt to officially renew the direct dialogue between the organizations in the end of October. Inasmuch, there was an official meeting between the Hamas delegation, comprised of 20 senior Hamas operatives, led by Musa Abu Marzouq, deputy head of the Hamas Politburo, as well as O’mar Sulleiman, the Egyptian Minister of Intelligence, and an additional... more |
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Week
of September 28 - October 4 2008
This coming week is expected to witness the first encounter in Cairo between Hamas’ mission to Egyptian elements, in the framework of the efforts to renew the dialogue between Hamas and Fatah under Egyptian sponsorship. The political and media clashes between Fatah and Hamas are raging on, and include threats by Fatah elements to take over the Gaza Strip by force and demands by various Hamas elements to refrain from renewing the dialogue. Meanwhile both camps estimate that the current... more |
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Week
of September 21 - 27 2008
This past week was a clear demonstration of the "waiting period" inwhich the Palestinian Authority and its head Mahmoud Abbas currentlyfind themselves, as do the other local and regional players, in light of thepolitical uncertainty. This waiting period stems from the fluid situationsin the Israeli and the American political systems, as well as from the factthat the Annapolis Process is not expected to lead to any substantialachievements by the end of this year. In the absence of a clear external... more |
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Week
of September 14 - 20 2008
Over the past week, the political, public and legal confrontation between Fatah and Hamas regarding Mahmoud A’bbas’ continued reign as Chairman of the Palestinian Authority following January 2009 had surfaced notably. As mentioned in these reports during the past few months, this issue had been the focus of the senior Hamas and PA members’ attention, as they had been preparing to face it for several months. It had surfaced following an interview with Mahmoud A’bbas in... more |
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Week
of September 7 - 13 2008
Over the past few months this newsletter has described the preparations and moves being made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as well as by Hamas towards January 2009. As has been described here, there is a difference of opinions between the two sides regarding the contradiction that exists between the Palestinian Legislation Laws, according to which (so Fatah claims) elections to Parliament and to the Presidency should take place simultaneously in January 2010, and Hamas’... more |
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Week
of August 31 - September 6 2008
Over the past few weeks Hamas has been preparing its supporters andthe general Palestinian public towards an all-out attack against the legitimacy of the PLO’s historical institutions and of The Palestinian Authority President MahmudAbbas to negotiate a future political solution with Israel. As can be recalled, this was Hamas’ historicalposition until the Cairo Agreement of 2005, following which Hamaschanged this position in return for its participation in the Palestinianelections... more |
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Week
of August 24 - 30 2008
The past few months have seen consistent declarations made by both thePalestinian Authority in Ramallah, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, and bythe heads of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, regarding the need to renewdialogue between the Fatah and Hamas. Such dialogue should purportedly aim to create a united Palestinian position, acceptable to both, regardingall the issues the two organizations are confronting: defining future controlover the Gaza Strip, defining the division of power in the Palestinian... more |
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Week
of August 17 - 23 2008
Throughout the past week the main issue at hand was the surprise and astonishment felt by the senior Palestinian Authority officials, mainly Mahmoud A’bbas, regarding what they see as a renewed honeymoon in the Jordanian-Hamas relations, which were severed in 1999. Following a series of political and public blows, including the establishment of the cease-fire between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip, the failed Annapolis process and the question marks regarding the future of the... more |
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