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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 June 3 - 9 2007
This past week has been an additional stage in the internal-Palestinian dialogue between the Fatah and Hamas organizations, as well as between the Presidency headed by Mahmoud Abbas and the government headed by Prime Minister Ismail Haniya. Over the past few years, and especially since the signing of the Cairo Accord in March 2005, Fatah and Hamas have been conducting an ongoing political and military dialogue, part of which is taking place around the negotiations ... more |
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Week
of May 27 - June 2 2007
As far as the security situation in the Gaza Strip in concerned, the Hamas organization has adopted this past week the modus operandi that characterized it in the years 2004-2005. On the one hand this includes an attempt to negotiate with Israel regarding new security calm in the Gaza Strip (the prior security calm negotiated terminated officially at the end of 2006) and the cessation of rockets launching from it. On the other hand, this includes parallel negotiations with Fatah regarding ... more |
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Week
of May 20 - 26 2007
Following the situation in the Gaza Strip described here last week and against the background of ongoing Israeli bombings of targets in the Gaza Strip, it is important to note the internal split within Fatah and the lack of willingness, and absence of military and organizational leadership on the part of the central axis within the movement – that of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – regarding a direct confrontation with Hamas. As a result, Abbas on the one hand and ... more |
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Week
of May 13 - 19 2007
The renewed internal military confrontation in the Gaza Strip between Fatah and Hamas that erupted yet again last weekend is the harshest confrontation yet between these organizations since the establishment of the Palestinian unity government about three months ago. The renewed confrontation brought anew to the surface the same characteristics of prior confrontations including the inability of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to enforce his will on all the ... more |
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Week
of May 6 - 12 2007
For the first time, elements within the Palestinian security forces in the Gaza Strip admit to the presence of citizens from other Arab states within the Gaza Strip, and to their activities within the framework and as part of the ideology of the Al Qaeda organization, detached from the known Palestinian organizations active in the Gaza Strip. So far a number of groups have been active within the Gaza Strip, imitating the names and modus operandi of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Such were, for ... more |
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Week
of April 22 - 28 2007
The past week constitutes a low point in all matters relating to public security in the Gaza Strip since the Palestinian unity government was formed some two months ago. Ever since the beginning of the Intifada, and even more so since Hamas’ victory in the parliamentary elections and the inauguration of its government in 2006, different terms have been used to describe the indications that the Palestinian Authority is weakening, as well as to describe the transfer of power in the Gaza ... more |
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Week
of April 15 - 21 2007
Now that a month has passed since the formation of the Palestinian unity government, Hamas and Fatah, the two large Palestinian factions comprising the government, are beginning to discover that the acts of defining the government’s political platform and of allotting ministries are not enough to resolve the relationship between the organizations in a manner that would allow the government to function. The more time elapses, the clearer it becomes that the sides are not actually in ... more |
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Week
of April 8 - 14 2007
The events of the past week, especially news regarding the discovery of a unit of the Hamas’ Military Wing in the Qalqiliya area that planned to execute a suicide bombing in Tel-Aviv during the Passover holiday, sharpen the need to understand the atmosphere within the Hamas organization and its moves vis-à-vis Palestinian President Abbas, Israel and the international community. The initial announcement made by Israeli sources ... more |
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Week
of April 1 - 7 2007
About three weeks following the announcement of the establishment of the Palestinian unity government it becomes clear that, other than sporadic, personal initiatives of some of the ministers, (mostly Minister of Information Mustafa Albargouthi, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ziad Abu Amru and Minister of Finance Salam Fayyad), the government as a whole, and more generally the contacts between Fatah and Hamas, are in a state of paralysis. The mutual mistrust between the two ... more |
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Week
of March 25 - 31 2007
The Arab League Summit that took place in Riyadh last week, and confirmed again the familiar formula of the Arab Initiative, was a significant opportunity to examine the Hamas’ updated positions regarding this Initiative and the way in which the organization confronts the challenges this Initiative poses for its ideological dogmas. As a general rule, the Arab Initiative gave Hamas the opportunity to sharpen the differences between the positions of the government and those of ... more |
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