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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 December 30 - January 5 2008
Towards President Bush’s upcoming visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories next week, this week was characterized by the initiation of a well planned, militant and unprecedented campaign by Hamas together with the other resistance factions - Islamic Jihad, the Popular and Democratic Fronts and others -against Salam Fayyad’s government and against Fayyad personally. This campaign aims to overthrow Fayyad’s government, under the assumption that such a ... more |
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Week
of December 23 - 29 2007
All the moves implemented this past week by the various regional players – including the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas organization in the Gaza Strip and Israel – were aimed to create the optimal conditions for each of these players towards the visit of US President Bush to the region. The Annapolis Convention and the Donor Countries’ conference held last month aimed to jump-start a political process. However, after the turbulence created by these events ... more |
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Week
of December 16 - 22 2007
This past week was characterized by the indirect contacts between Israel and Hamas regarding a possible Tahdia’ah (ceasefire) in the Gaza Strip, contacts that are taking place via Egyptian and other elements. News of these contacts are the results of Hamas’ interests in their publication, through which Hamas intends to achieve a number of goals: the first is overtaking the internal-Palestinian and regional "discourse" following the international conventions in Annapolis and ... more |
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Week
of December 9 - 15 2007
Over past weeks there are increasing news and declarations (the source of most of which are the Hamas Movement) that discussions are taking place between Hamas and elements within the Fatah Movement regarding the renewal of dialogue between the two organizations, with the aim of reaching an agreement on the return of the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip and the unification of the Palestinian political system. This dialogue process has been ongoing, in fact, since 2005, ... more |
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Week
of December 2 - 8 2007
This past week was characterized by a process of disillusionment in the Palestinian territories – an awakening from the Annapolis Convention and a return to the daily realities in terms of the serious conflict between Fatah and Hamas, the relations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, and the relations between the Authority and the Arab states. Despite an attempt to strengthen Palestinian Authority President Abbas’ international standing via a public show of support for him by the ... more |
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Week
of November 25 - December 1 2007
The Annapolis Convention held this week in the US poses serious challenges to the Palestinian Authority headed by Abbas, challenges the like of which this Authority has not faced since Abbas was elected President on January 2005. The Palestinian Authority has worked hard to lower expectations before the summit was convened. Still, in addition to the crucial question as to whether or not Israel and the Palestinians would be able to make real progress on the way towards permanent ... more |
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Week
of November 18 - 24 2007
On the eve of the Annapolis Conference that is planned for the middle of this coming week, Hamas is significantly escalating its statements against the Conference and, for the first time in past months, is also openly threatening with security escalation. Over the past few months similar threats were made every few weeks by various elements within Hamas (mostly declarations of the military wing Izzedin Alqassam in the Gaza Strip), by they were usually in response to actions taken by Fatah ... more |
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Week
of November 11 - 17 2007
In view of the ongoing political-public conflict between the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas and its government in the Gaza Strip (see below regarding the Fatah’s rally in the Gaza Strip commemorating three years to Yasser Arafat’s death), it is important to address the exchange of public message taking place between Abbas and the Hamas leadership – most importantly the Head of Hamas’ Political Bureau, Khaled Mash’al. ... more |
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Week
of November 4 - 10 2007
The past week was characterized by hardened positions on the part of Hamas regarding the renewal of dialogue and regarding its relations with Fatah and with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Despite the harsh economic situation in the Gaza Strip and Hamas’ interest in renewing dialogue with Fatah so as to institutionalize the it own achievements in the Gaza Strip and to prevent the developing negotiations between Abbas and Israel, Hamas understands that Abbas ... more |
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Week
of October 28 - November 3 2007
Notwithstanding its contents or results, the upcoming Annapolis Conference is exasperating the internal Palestinian struggles between Fatah and Hamas in regards to questions of legitimacy and of the future rule over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip – in light of the existing reality since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip four and a half months ago. In this context both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas leadership inside and outside the Territories are putting major ... more |
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