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The Planned Palestinian Election Is Really a Battle within Fatah

The Planned Palestinian Election Is Really a Battle within Fatah

March 24, 2021 | Pinhas Inbari
Fatah is split between West Bank local leaders and the PLO returnees from exile
The Palestinian Authority and the Challenge of Palestinian Elections

The Palestinian Authority and the Challenge of Palestinian Elections

February 1, 2006 | Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland
The government of Israel could accept the roadmap because it differed from the Oslo process in one significant respect. In Oslo, the notion was that peace would bring security. The political process was to develop certain horizons for the Palestinian people, and hopes for a better future were to reduce the incentives and motivation for terrorism. But it didn't work.
America’s Hamas Dilemma: Spreading Democracy or Combating Terrorism?

America’s Hamas Dilemma: Spreading Democracy or Combating Terrorism?

November 1, 2005 | Amb. Dore Gold
The Bush administration had not agreed for some time with the Israeli position that Hamas be excluded from the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections. At Princeton University on September 30, 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was absolutely clear that Palestinian violence could not co-exist with Palestinian politics in the future. She also reiterated that Hamas was a terrorist organization.