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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 18 - 24 2007
This past week has been the first week of work for the new Palestinian unity government, which seems to be following in the footsteps of previous Palestinian governments in terms of the continuation of the internal chaos and the prices it extracts. Nonetheless, both Fatah and Hamas are less worried about the internal confrontations than they are of the political horizon of this government, and especially of the intensive diplomatic activity forecasted for the coming couple of weeks. ... more |
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Week
of March 11 - 17 2007
The declaration of the Palestinian unity government that has been approved, including its agenda, this past weekend in the Palestinian parliament, represents three sets of understandings between Fatah and Hamas, which are the result of the events of past months and especially of both parties’ fear of a deterioration into civil war:1. The government’s guidelines and the general understandings reached between the two organizations create, first and ... more |
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Week
of March 4 - 10 2007
Over the past few days, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is leading a double move, agreed-upon with both Fatah and Hamas, of widening the security calm ("tahdia’a") from only the Gaza Strip also to the September 28th 2000 lines in the West Bank, as well as completing the prisoners’ exchange deal and the release of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Elements within Hamas have confirmed over the past week their support for this move, affirming both their support for ... more |
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Week
of February 25 - March 3 2007
Fatah and Hamas are expected to complete the process of establishing the Palestinian National Unity Government within the coming week and to declare it. Despite the long list of disagreements that have been listed here over the past weeks – including personnel issues related to the nomination of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Interior; the division of the security authorities between the Presidency controlled by Mahmoud Abbas and the Ministry of Interior; the division ... more |
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Week
of February 18 - 24 2007
The Mecca Agreement between Fatah and Hamas has been understood and presented over the weeks since it was signed as a framework agreement between the two organizations, aimed at resolving all their differences in regards to the division of political power, negotiations with Israel and relations with the Arab States and the international community. However, the Agreement is first and foremost an understanding regarding the cessation of violence in the Gaza Strip, ... more |
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Week
of February 11 - 17 2007
The period that has passed since the signing of the Mecca Agreement between Fatah and Hamas as well as the contacts initiated last Thursday by the acting Prime Minister Ismail Haniya towards the establishment of the Palestinian national unity government, form the framework that will characterize the Palestinian arena in the coming weeks. In spite of ongoing verbal confrontations regarding various issues on the way to the establishment of the government and in spite ... more |
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Week
of February 4 - 10 2007
The Mecca Agreement that was reached this week between Fatah and Hamas constitutes, for the first time since the parliamentary elections of January 2006 which Hamas won, a real agreement regarding the division of power in the Palestinian Authority as well as an agreement regarding the division of representation of the Palestinian issue between the two organizations. After countless clashes between the Hamas-controlled government and the Fatah-led Presidency, aiming to ... more |
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Week
of January 27 - February 2 2007
The clashes between Fatah and Hamas throughout the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are continuing, despite calls to stop them and despite the fact that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to meet with the Head of the Hamas’ Political Bureau Khaled Mash’al in Mecca this coming Tuesday. Both sides are careful to show much respect for the Saudi elements involved in the mediation attempts, but the Quartet’s statement from Friday that stresses anew the conditions that the future ... more |
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Week
of January 21 - 27 2007
This past week, marking a year to the Hamas’ victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, marked also the most severe escalation in the clash between Fatah and Hamas and the inability of the two organizations to divide the rule over the Palestinian Authority between them, and most importantly to agree on the division of the political representation of the Palestinian people in the more general sense. Despite mediation attempts between Palestinian President Mahmoud ... more |
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Week
of January 14 - 20 2007
This past week revolved around the ongoing maneuvers that Fatah and Hamas are implementing vis-à-vis each other in regards to the establishment of a national unity government. On the one hand Hamas tries to dictate the terms of such a government to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, while on the other hand Abbas tries to erode the positions of Hamas by ongoing statements threatening to turn to early elections if Hamas fails to comply with the terms dictated ... more |
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