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February 12, 2025 | |

Israel SitRep: February 12, 2025

Today’s Issue: | Reports: Lebanon and U.S. Administration Will Not Agree to Israel’s Request to Extend Lebanon Withdrawal Deadline | IDF’s Maglan Commando Unit Eliminates Gunman in Nur Shams Refugee...

June 3, 2024 | |

Palestinian President Denounces Iran’s Supreme Leader for Supporting Gaza War

Tehran’s support for Hamas is undermining the Palestinian goal of independence, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), said on June 3, in a rebuke of Iran’s...

November 5, 2023 | |

Blinken Probes Abbas on PA Role for Gaza

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid a brief visit to Ramallah on November 5 to discuss developments in Gaza and a possible role for the Palestinian Authority (PA) in post-war...

November 3, 2016 | Grant Rumley |

Fatah sets date for top leadership elections

Fatah's top leadership body decided on Wednesday that the long-awaited seventh Fatah General Congress will take place at the end of November. “The Fatah Central Committee unan...

October 20, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer

Words Have Consequences: Palestinian Authority Incitement to Violence

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May 8, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer

The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the Peace Process: What’s Next?

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May 8, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the Peace Process: What’s Next?

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January 15, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer CNN |

State of Confusion Over State of Palestine

Has the Palestinian-Israeli conflict finally entered the post-Oslo Accords era? In the Middle East, nothing is dead until it’s buried, but several troubling signs are pointing in that direc...

May 7, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The New Palestinian Strategy

One word went unspoken in an interview President Barack Obama gave to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in late February. In their 45-minute discussion, devoted exclusively to the subject of Israel, th...

November 9, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Should Treasury Sanction the Palestinian Investment Fund?

In a move that should startle members of Congress, a Palestinian sovereign wealth fund that has long received American taxpayer support will soon begin building houses for convicted members of te...

October 24, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer The Jerusalem Post |

Schalit Deal May Boost Fatah-Hamas Unity

Exchange deal provides a window for unity that could complicate US policy in a region where there are already complications.

October 7, 2008 |

Why Won’t Obama Talk About Columbia?

Barack Obama does not want to talk about Columbia. Not even to his good friends at the New York Times, who’ve so reliably helped him bleach away his past — a past neck-deep in the har...