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The final weeks of 2015 were rife with rumors of the impending collapse of the Palestinian Authority (PA): so dire that the Israeli cabinet took the issue up for discussion on January 4. PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ political behavior had grown more erratic...

The Fragmented West Bank: The Whole Is Less than the Sum of Its Parts By Pinhas Inbari, JCPA Introduction The Palestinian Authority is failing to control extensive parts of the West Bank. As a result, some districts of the West Bank are developing...

Obama says to ‘re-assess’ options after Netanyahu win WASHINGTON (AFP)19 Mar by Jo Biddle and Andrew Beatty, with Hazel Ward in Jerusalem — President Barack Obama on Thursday warned Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington will “re-assess” its policies...

What conclusions should we draw from the plans for a new “nonviolent” intifada campaign to “free Palestine,” conceived for the post-Mahmoud Abbas era by Marwan Barghouti and his associates together with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and reported earlier this...

Efraim Karsh Middle East Quarterly Summer 2014 http://www.meforum.org/3831/palestinians-reject-statehood The Palestinian leadership's serial rejection of the numerous opportunities for statehood since the Peel Commission report of 1937 casts a serious...