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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 January 7 - 13 2007
In spite of the events of the last weeks including the clashes between Hamas and Fatah in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the ongoing confrontation and the defamatory propaganda in the media, at the end of the day the political leaderships of the two organizations aren’t interested in an all-out confrontation and are looking for a political way-out that would enable some understandings to be reached – even if those would refer to the short-term only. The clear conclusion of both ... more |
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Week
of December 31 - January 6 2007
The armed clashes in the Gaza Strip last week, including the incidents in Khan Younis in which a total of 13 people from the Preventative Security and from Fatah were killed and four members of the Hamas’ Operational Force, form the most significant escalation since the Palestinian elections of January 2006, in terms of the power struggles between the two organizations. If the gauge for the existence of a civil war is the use of the maximal amount of force by the various ... more |
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Week
of December 24 - 30 2006
This past week marks one of the meaningful low points in the presidency of Mahmoud Abbas since he was elected, and a dangerous deterioration in his standing in the internal Palestinian, in the regional and in the international, standing. Abbas still holds important ’cards’ within the Fatah organization, and is still perceived as the formal address as far as Israel, the US, and the moderate Arab states such as Egypt and Jordan are concerned. However, in practice he is facing a ... more |
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Week
of December 17 - 23 2006
For the first time since the Palestinian elections of January, it became clear this week that the Hamas movement has began to pay a political price for it inability to translate the elections’ results into a stable governing authority under its rule, as well as for its inability to enforce its will in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. A combination of circumstances including the escalation in the armed struggles in the Gaza Strip, the deteriorating feeling of security of the simple person, ... more |
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Week
of December 10 - 16 2006
The call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to hold early elections for the presidency and for the parliament of the Palestinian Authority signifies a new phase in the internal Palestinian struggle and in the consolidation of the Fatah and the Hamas camps towards an all-out clash. Even in his speech in Ramallah, Abbas did not totally close the door for the possibility of reaching agreements with Hamas not for the establishment of a unity government but, for the first time since the ... more |
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