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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 October 16 - 22 2011
The prisoners’ exchange between Israel and Hamas, whose first phasehad included 477 prisoners in return for the soldier Gilad Shalit, takingplace last week, had created significant waves and discourse reachingway beyond the scope of a normal prisoner swap. Despite the disadvantages of the deal from hamas perspective including the fact that several senior Hamas members were not... more |
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Week
of October 9 - 15 2011
The dominant event of the past and coming week is the signing and expectedimplementation of the exchange of prisoners between Israel and Hamas,including the return of 1047 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. For the moment both sides are focusing mainly on the identity of the Palestinian prisoners and on the... more |
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Week
of October 2 - 8 2011
Over the past week, PA Chairman Mahmud A’bbas attempted to maintain thedomestic and foreign momentum created by the submission of the Palestinianrequest to the UN Security Council to recognize Palestine as a full member of the UN. After devoting several days to exploiting the... more |
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Week
of September 25 - October 1 2011
The first week following the submission to the UN Security Council of therequest to recognize Palestine saw parallel efforts by the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships to reject the proposal by the International Quartet to resume direct negotiations between the two sides. As will be recalled, the proposal formulated during the period leading to the submission of the Palestinian request avoided specific mention of the main areas of disagreement between the two sides particularly the cessation of... more |
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Week
of September 18 - 24 2011
The past week was, of course, dominated by the submission by the PLO of aformal request to the Security Council to admit Palestinian as a member of theUnited Nations. In practical terms, however, the most important development inthis context was a major upgrading in the status of the PLO and PA ChairmanMahmud A’bbas. Discussion of the... more |
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Week
of September 11 - 17 2011
The main development of the past week was the declaration by PalestinianAuthority Chairman Mahmud A’bbas at the weekend regarding the intention ofthe PA to ask the UN Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders. A’bbas’s declaration ended months of speculation regarding theprecise format the PA would choose for its appeal to the UN, such as thedecision whether to address the... more |
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Week
of September 4 - 10 2011
The past week saw an intensification of the Palestinian preparations ahead ofthe submission of the application to the UN by the Palestinian Authority and thePLO for recognition of a Palestinian state. It became apparent over the week thatthe meetings between international Quartet envoy Tony Blair and two Americanenvoys, David Hale and... more |
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Week
of August 21 - 27 2011
The past week saw the collapse on Monday of the first ceasefireagreement secured between Israel and the Palestinian organizations in theGaza Strip, reached with Egyptian mediation. On Friday, a new ceasefireagreement came into force, based mainly on an end of extrajudicialkillings and bombardments by Israel in... more |
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Week
of August 14 - 20 2011
The past week was completely dominated by the attack within Israeliterritory, close to the Egyptian border, on Thursday, in which 8 Israeliswere killed and dozens wounded; four members of the Egyptian securityforces were also killed. The attack sidelined the planned Palestinianapproach to the United Nations, as well as... more |
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Week
of August 7 - 13 2011
The past week was dominated by the clear efforts on the part of thePalestinian Authority to convey calming messages regarding the expectedevents in the Palestinian Territories and elsewhere against the backgroundof its plan to turn to the UN on September 20 and request recognition for a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. In recent months, the publicapproach of the PA has... more |
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