MIDEAST: Rift Developing Between PA and Fatah
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By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Oct 12 (IPS) – An increasingly isolated and unpopular Palestinian Authority (PA) has again made a 180-degree turn in the Goldstone report fiasco as it tries to fend off mounting criticism from all and sundry, including its own organisation.
On Sunday Palestinian [...]
U.S. ‘Personality Assassination’ of a Palestinian Ally
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By Nicola Nasser*
The report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which the head of the mission, Judge Richard Goldstone, presented to the Human Rights Council (HRC) on September 29, prematurely plunged the Palestinian Authority (PA) in a short –lived euphoria over what it [...]
MIDEAST: Jerusalem Palestinians Defining Their Own Future
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By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
EAST JERUSALEM, Sep 25 (IPS) – Almost a year ago a barely noticed event took place in Sawarha, a Palestinian neighbourhood in the Israeli-occupied part of the city.
On that November day, Israeli Jerusalemites were voting in a new mayor [...]
MIDEAST: Big Challenges Ahead for Mahmoud Abbas
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Analysis by Helena Cobban*
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) – Mahmoud Abbas, the 74-year-old leader of the Palestinian Fatah movement, registered a significant achievement in holding the movement’s Sixth General Conference, which has been wrapping up its business in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank this week.
But veteran Palestinian [...]
MIDEAST: And Still They Run These Taxis
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By Eva Bartlett
GAZA CITY, Aug 3 (IPS) – Salleh wonders how he will pay for a replacement car part he bought from the tunnels black market.
"It cost over 1,000 dollars. Before the siege, it would have been 500 to 1000 shekels (roughly 125 to [...]
MIDEAST: Suddenly, It’s Advantage Fatah, and a Solution
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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Aug 13 (IPS) – Has the just-ended Fatah party convention, concluded in a cavalcade of personnel change, affected the prospects for a two-state solution that might finally resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Even more than the dramatic shift of power from the [...]
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