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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 March 16 - 22 2008
This past week exposed the significant extent of organizational, administrative, public and psychological disintegration of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, which is further exasperated by the absence of a guiding hand and leadership on the part of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. While the "symptoms" within the PA and Fatah are well known, an accumulation of events this past week created a public wave the ultimate consequences of which are as yet hard to predict. However, it is clear that if this wave is not addressed it could very well lead to a final collapse.... more |
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Week
of March 2 - 8 2008
Despite the media and verbal escalation that was notable among Hamas elements in the Gaza Strip, among the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and within Israel over the past week following the results of Israel’s military operation in the northern Gaza Strip and the terror attack in Jerusalem last Thursday (115 Palestinians and 8 Israelis dead, respectively), this past week signals a significant change in the attitude of all sides involved as far as future developments are concerned. The diplomatic outcome of the latest violent round in the Gaza Strip is that the "Tahdia’ah" (the security calm) – a term... more |
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Week
of February 24 - March 1 2008
The death of Majd Albarghuthi – an Imam and Mosque preacher from the village of Kubar near Ramallah while under interrogation by the General Intelligence apparatus headed by Taufiq Altirawi, has turned into Hamas’ most aggressive campaign to date against the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank. Hamas published the names of the officers who were involved in the interrogation process, in order to expose them to possible blood vengeance and, in parallel, there were a... more |
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Week
of February 17 - 23 2008
Over the past week attempts were made by senior members of Hamas to present a "business as usual" situation regarding the organization’s relations with Egypt as far as future arrangements in the Rafah Crossings are concerned. However, the important development of this past week has been the downgrading of relations and the level of discussions conducted, both as far as the emerging reality in the border area is concerned, and in relation to Egyptian formal and informal ... more |
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Week
of February 10 - 16 2008
The past week saw Hamas expressing a tactical flexibility in regards to the situation in the Gaza Strip in general and to the issue of the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt specifically. An analysis of declarations made by Hamas leaders this past week, as well as conversations with seniors in the organization, show that despite the forceful breach of the Rafah Crossing last month – and maybe as a direct continuation of that move – the main goal as far as Hamas is ... more |
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Week
of February 3 - 9 2008
The suicide bombing attack this week in the city of Dimona in southern Israel (by two suicide bombers from Hamas, killing one Israeli woman and wounding ten others), is the first suicide bombing implemented by Hamas since August 2004. Thus it is the first such attack implemented by Hamas since it entered the Palestinian political system by participating in the local elections in 2005 and in the parliamentary elections in January 2006. This terror attack raised three possibilities: ... more |
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Week
of January 27 - February 2 2008
The past week was characterized by the failure of attempts made by Egyptian elements to discuss with both Hamas (which initiated the breach of the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt) and with representatives of the Palestinian Authority the possibility of reaching understandings that would allow a new and organized border regimes to be established in the Rafah area. The Egyptians and the Arab world were shocked by the hundreds of thousands of Gazans who crossed the ... more |
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Week
of January 20 - 26 2008
In the center of last week’s events stands the Hamas movement’s planned move of destroying the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Egypt in the Rafah area. This move is without a doubt the most dramatic development since Israel evacuated its settlements from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005, and it has far-reaching ramifications for the future of the Gaza Strip (see below). However, In the short-term, the most dramatic ramification relates to the standing of the Palestinian ... more |
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Week
of January 13 - 19 2008
In view of the past weeks, and especially of the Annapolis Convention, the Paris Donor’s Conference and US President Bush’s visit to the region, during which Israeli-Palestinian political negotiations were re-launched, this past week crystallized the already known fact that Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, is able to put a military and political veto over any Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Prior attempts at negotiations, which were implemented in past years while the Palestinian Authority ... more |
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Week
of January 6 - 12 2008
US President Bush’s visit last week to Israel and to the Palestinian Authority areas in Ramallah and Bethlehem, supposedly aimed to be a follow up visit to the Annapolis Convention and to give renewed momentum to the political negotiations between Israel and the leadership of the Palestinian Authority. However, both in terms of content and in terms of public perception, the visit in fact caused heavy damage and undoubtedly sabotaged the attempts made earlier in ... more |
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