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Why it matters so little what Mahmoud Abbas says

Analysis

Why it matters so little what Mahmoud Abbas says

Also featured at the Palestine Chronicle – by Tariq Shadid – It has not gone unnoticed that Palestinians are showing little interest in Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the United Nations, which he held on the 27th of September. Most Palestinians have no idea what he said, and do not care to know it. There is quite a contrast between the...

Police state in-the-making – Samah Jabr

Analysis

Police state in-the-making – Samah Jabr

Although United States-sponsored security coordination with the Palestinian Authority started in the nineties, the scale and nature of US intervention in Palestinian affairs intensified through the program headed by Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton that was launched by the Bush administration in 2005. When Hamas ousted Fateh from the Gaza Strip in June 2007, the atmosphere then became ripe to escalate...