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The schism between Fatah and Hamas, the dominant Palestinian factions, has long be exacerbated by foreign powers, including Israel. The roots of the rivalry are indigenous to the Palestinians, and stem partly from the ideological divergence and from...
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Israel had tried to coordinate Operation Cast Lead with Egypt and Fatah, offering to allow its neighbor and the Palestinian faction to take control of Gaza after an...
made popular Nov 29 2010
Before the rest of the world understands that they have no more interest in peace than Hamas?
When are negotiations not negotiations? When one side has an agenda of...
made popular Nov 29 2010
With the recently launched Palestinian-Israeli peace talks receding into a state of limbo and while Yemen is slowly disappearing from headlines a smaller stories from...
made popular Nov 15 2010
When one party makes declarations like this? Of course, this is typical of Hamas—their position has always been ‘all or nothing’, which is why they’ve achieved...
made popular Aug 30 2010
The women were bleary-eyed, their voices weak, their hands red and calloused. How could they be expected to cook and clean without water or electricity? What could they...
made popular Jul 14 2010
The majority of Palestinians support a peace agreement with Israel and believe that the Palestinian Authority should use non-violent means to achieve their political...
made popular Jun 21 2010
Hamas sent thousands of rockets into Israel, and aided Muslim Brotherhood attacks in Egypt: hence the blockade and closure of Egypt’s and Israel’s borders...
made popular Jun 15 2010
Here is further evidence that the United States only supports elections in the Middle East if it believes its clients will win: Nearly seven hours before the deadline...
made popular Jun 14 2010
It’s just like Hamas to demand to try the one Palestinian actually doing something about creating an economically viable Palestinian state. If nothing else, it...
made popular Apr 5 2010
Violent clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians have broken out in Jerusalem, after Hamas announced a “day of rage.”
Hamas was angered by the...
made popular Mar 17 2010
Fatah chief collaborator Mohammad Dahlan
Dubai police along with Hamas have accused Fatah, the Palestinian secular rival of Hamas, of involvement in the Israeli plot...
made popular Feb 26 2010
The Most Corrupt
Some corrupt Arabs regime have cheered the recent Israeli Mossad assassination of a mid-level Hamas official in Dubai. The assassination was so...
made popular Feb 26 2010
Dubai police along with Hamas have accused Fatah, the Palestinian secular rival of Hamas, of involvement in the Israeli plot that killed a Hamas mid-level, Iran-contact...
made popular Feb 23 2010
A clash between rival Palestinian groups in the Ain al-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon has left at least one person dead, officials said.
The victim of the...
made popular Feb 16 2010
The corruption of Fatah, the faction presiding over the West Bank Palestinian government under Israeli occupation, is notorious. The ‘president’ - his term...
made popular Feb 13 2010
The first year in a decade without a suicide bombing, as well as an expanded Palestinian security force, resulted in a decline in the number of Israeli and Palestinian...
made popular Jan 2 2010
Mahmoud Abbas - the illegitimate president of the Palestinian Authority (his term expired in January) - is on edge. Years of being an Israeli and American puppet has...
made popular Nov 26 2009
This was always predictable. The Palestinian Islamist party-cum-militia Hamas (an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement) was always going to come to the rescue...
made popular Nov 9 2009
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“It’s time for you to find another donkey.” With those words, according to Palestinian sources, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas...
made popular Nov 6 2009
My wife and I just returned home from a three-week visit to Israel. To be accurate, we also visited the Palestinian West Bank for a day; a profoundly memorable day at...
made popular Oct 31 2009
sami,
The Hamas-run interior ministry in the Gaza Strip said on Wednesday that it will ban the organisation of elections called for by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in...
made popular Oct 29 2009
Mahmoud Abbas, the “president” (his term expired and elections have been postponed) of the Palestinian Authority, is facing a great credibility and...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbads is reportedly pushing for a vote on Goldstone which supposedly proves the occurrence of war crimes in Gaza during the Israeli...
made popular Oct 15 2009
Fatah has agreed to an Egyptian proposal for the two main Palestinian factions to separately sign a long-delayed unity deal by October 15, a senior party official said...
made popular Oct 14 2009
Time for another Week In Review in Occupied Palestine.
First, the Palestinian Authority is battling accusations that it is a puppet of Israel after the PA decided not...
made popular Oct 10 2009
To the waste dump of history is where Palestinian collaborator Mahmoud Abbas belongs. This is a man who has sold out his people and their aspirations for nothing more...
made popular Oct 8 2009
Hamas and Fatah, bitter rivals who violently split more than two years ago, appear close to a reconciliation deal that could lead to a Palestinian unity government....
made popular Oct 1 2009
Israel has released nine Hamas members of the Palestinian parliament after the completion of their prison terms.
The politicians had served more than three years in...
made popular Sep 4 2009
Two years after its takeover of the Gaza strip, Hamas has faced down its greatest challenger: A militant, Al Qaeda-inspired organization that says Hamas is not Islamic...
made popular Aug 18 2009
The Buffoon.
For the United States neo-cons, there is good torture and bad torture. When American and Israel engage in torture it is noble and necessary and when...
made popular Aug 17 2009
The Fatah movement, the key Palestinian guerrilla movement within the Palestine Liberation Organization moved one step closer to becoming a political party.
With the...
made popular Aug 13 2009
Fatah, the Palestinian group led by Mahmoud Abbas, today elected a group of younger leaders, as the movement seeks to shake off its reputation for corruption and...
made popular Aug 12 2009
sami,
It was a delicate balancing act for Fatah, the mainstream Palestinian nationalist party, as it sought to rise above past failures, rejuvenate itself and head off the...
made popular Aug 11 2009
A Jerusalemite born to Jewish parents, Dr. Uri Davis was long discontent with left-wing parties in Israel “because all of them are Zionist parties.”
To...
made popular Aug 10 2009
Fatah has staged a conference for the first time in 20 years in the Israeli-occupied city of Bethlehem. The point of the gathering was to inject new blood into Fatah...
made popular Aug 7 2009
Fatah, the divided and demoralized movement of the late Yasser Arafat and the West’s best hope for delivering a Mideast peace deal, is trying to stage a...
made popular Aug 1 2009
Suha Arafat, the wife [his second wife after his infrequently publicized divorce to his first] of late Palestinian resistance leader Yasser Arafat, has come to the...
made popular Jul 21 2009
Bassam Eid is the founder and director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) based in east Jerusalem. It’s a thankless job and he’s between a...
made popular Jul 3 2009
Egypt is making unprecedented efforts to persuade Hamas and Fatah to sign a reconciliation agreement by July 7, 2009, Palestinian sources told Ynet Saturday. The...
made popular Jun 13 2009
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