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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 2 - 8 2011
The past week was dominated by the steps taken by the Palestinian leadership to define a timetable for its struggle with Israel over the coming months. In particular, September 2011 is being seen as a critical milestone marking either the resumption of the negotiation process or its final collapse. PA Chairman Mahmud A’bbas and... more |
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Week
of December 26 - January 1 2011
The past week ended with a speech by PA Chairman Mahmud A’bbas in which he urged the international Quartet [which consists of the US, Russia, the EU, and the UN] and the international community in general, including the UN Security Council “to save the peace process and to develop an alternative peace plan based on... more |
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Week
of December 19 - 25 2010
This week saw further steps by the Palestinian Authority and Chairman Mahmud A’bbas, following the meeting of the Monitoring Committee for the Arab Peace Initiative last week, which provided A’bbas both with a political umbrella in the (purely theoretical) event of the resumption of negotiations with... more |
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Week
of December 12 - 18 2010
The past week was dominated by the ongoing attempts by the Palestinians to cope with the ramifications of the American announcement issued two weeks ago of its failure to persuade the Israeli government to freeze construction in the settlements, and hence the failure of the efforts to renew the direct negotiations between the two sides. The American announcement was followed by a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in... more |
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Week
of December 5 - 11 2010
The American announcement at the beginning of the week that its talks with Israel regarding an extension of the settlement freeze had been unsuccessful. The announcement ended three months of uncertainty regarding the freeze and the possible resumption of direct negotiations between the two sides. Toward the end of the... more |
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Week
of November 28 - December 4 2010
The past week saw attempts by the Palestinian Authority to cope with the political vacuum created by a series of external events –in particular, the leaking of US State Department documents on the Wikileaks site, with their expected regional impact, and the massive forest fire in Israel. Even before this week, a stalemate has been apparent: on the one hand, the US Administration has been unable to... more |
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Week
of November 21 - 27 2010
No change was seen this week in the stalemate regarding the deal between the US Administration and Israel, under which Israel would impose a partial three-month freeze on construction in the Territories in return for a series of American military and political benefits. Although spokespeople for the US Administration have publicly agreed to the Israeli demand to forward a... more |
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Week
of November 14 - 20 2010
The past week has been dominated by the ongoing negotiations between the Israelis and Americans relating to the deal to resume direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in return for a series of political and military benefits to be provided by the US for Israel. The key benefits include the... more |
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Week
of November 7 - 13 2010
The past week saw a further escalation of the verbal sparring that has come to characterize the relations between the PA and Israel. An intensification was also seen in the threats by the PA to take unilateral action in view of the ongoing refusal of the... more |
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Week
of October 31 - November 6 2010
The verbal and diplomatic wrangling seen in recent weeks between the Israeli government and the PA continued over the past week, with further exchanges of overt and covert diplomatic threats between the two sides. The mid-term elections in the US, held during the week, did nothing to restore the confidence of... more |
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