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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 June 1 - 7 2008
The important development of this past week has been a speech given by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which he called for the renewal of dialogue between the Fatah and Hamas organizations. As has been reported here over the past few weeks, following a series of events – including the internal situation in Israel in light of the position of Israel’s Prime Minister Olmert and the corruption allegations, as well as the absence of any real progress in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations – Abbas declared, as expected, his support for the renewal of dialogue. ... more |
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Week
of May 25 - 31 2008
The criminal scandal in which Israel’s Prime Minister Olmert is currently involved, has become a central issue affecting developments inside the Palestinian Territories over this past week. Up until this last week the preliminary reports regarding this scandal were, as far as the PA leadership was concerned, just another scandal in the series of scandals that Israeli prime ministers have been involved in. However, this past week, following the testimony of the... more |
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Week
of May 18 - 24 2008
"We asked for a clear yes or no answer, but so far we have not received one", these were the words with which Dr. Mahmoud A-Zahar, the senior Hamas leader from the Gaza Strip, summarized his perception of the recent round of talks that Hamas representatives held this past week in Egypt regarding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip - "tahdia’ah" - with Israel. After almost two months of discussions and talks regarding a possible ceasefire, A-Zahar, who headed the Hamas ... more |
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Week
of May 11 - 17 2008
This week, in parallel to the events celebrating Israel’s 60th Independence Day that had as their most important guest US President Bush, the events commemorating the Nakbah – the Palestinian disaster of 1948 – were held in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and abroad. The Nakbah events this year were certainly the biggest and most comprehensive in all recent years and were implemented in all towns and villages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. As was expected, the central issue in these events was the Palestinian refugees’ "right of return", and the events also accurately mirrored the internal Palestinian political map, attesting to the... more |
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Week
of May 4 - 10 2008
Two major events that occurred this week transferred the center of attention from inside the Palestinian Territories to the regional arena. As can be remembered, Palestinian public attention has centered over the past few weeks first on the failed visit of Palestinian Authority President Abbas in the US (and the consequent fear of the PA leadership that President Bush’s upcoming visit to Israel next week will not bring about any political breakthrough), and second on the attempts to reach a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The past few days, however, showed a... more |
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Week
of April 27 - May 3 2008
This past week, the various processes that have been taking place over the past few months in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip peaked, dramatically presenting to all how political negotiations taking place between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah are leading nowhere, while Hamas’ moves in the Gaza Strip are dictating the pace of daily events. On the one hand, Palestinian Authority President Abbas returned this week from the US empty handed, without being able to present a single significant achievement from his meeting with President Bush. On the other hand, meanwhile,... more |
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Week
of April 20 - 26 2008
This past weekend Hamas released a formal declaration from the Gaza Strip, calling on the Israeli government to utilize the existing opportunity and Egypt’s mediation efforts in order to reach a security calm – "Tahdia’ah" - and to "respond to the flexibility shown by Hamas before the opportunity would be missed". This declaration was issued by Hamas after the organization’s senior leader Mahmoud A-Zahar came back to the Gaza Strip from discussions in Damascus (where Hamas’ institutions met to discuss the possibility of reaching calm in the Gaza Strip) and in Cairo (where he discussed the conditions that... more |
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Week
of April 6 - 12 2008
This past week underlined the fragility of the limited ceasefire that is currently implemented by Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as well as Hamas’ inability to strictly maintain this type of ceasefire as long as the economic and commercial siege over the Gaza Strip is only partially lifted. As can be remembered, following the IDF operation in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip and the high number of casualties this operation caused, Egyptian mediation commenced that was expected, as far as Hamas is concerned, to lead to an Egyptian-... more |
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Week
of March 30 - April 5 2008
In light of the slow and halting process towards convening Fatah’s Sixth General Convention and also in light of the dysfunction of the Palestinian Authority’s institutions in the West Bank and the inability to essentially change them, a new rising group has been forming within Fatah over the past few weeks, which in the future could play a central role in leading this organization. The two leading figures in this group are Marwan AlBarghouti – the Tanzim leader who is imprisoned in... more |
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Week
of March 23 - 29 2008
The political and organizational disintegration of the Palestinian Authority and of Fatah in the West Bank, which were described at length here last week, have been gaining momentum and are becoming a snowball that is fueled by leaking documents and corruption scandals. If over the past few months the internal clashes were characterized by documents being leaked and by media confrontations between Fatah and Hamas, over the past ... more |
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