Epstein Secrets

of us, knows how weak the Palestinians are. Abbas also knows that the Gaza-West Bank split is much more than a "brotherly" misunderstanding between Fatah and Hamas. The world has been preoccupied away from Palestinian concerns, and now, the Arabs themselves are preoccupied away from Palestine with th

k Obama remains president. The Democrats remain in control of the Senate with a non-filibuster-proof majority. The Republicans remain in control of the House of Representatives. The national political dynamic has resulted in an extended immobilization of the government. With the House -- a body where party discipline is th

in Gaza, but the "Hamas trumps Abbas" dynamic has been underway for some time now and is likely to continue. I'd offer four reasons why. Feckless Fatah Abbas's party is in disarray. The Islamists' victory in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections, its takeover of Gaza in 2007, Fatah's own sens

site of momentum: Republicans who had reluctantly approved New Start opposed CTBT, largely so as to deny Obama another victory. On climate change, the House of Representatives passed a bill to reduce carbon emissions in 2009; but the Senate, then controlled by Democrats, never voted on the House bill or a Senate version

yed, they may succeed by the end of June. The plan is for that new government to rule for six months and then hold elections, but neither Hamas nor Fatah wants to subject itself to the unpredictability of the polls. For Abbas, elections might end his years of happy globe-trotting. He claims that ret

stin Hoffinan's character in "Rain Man," sometimes wrote down the numbers as he spoke them: two hundred and forty-one, the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives last year when he was negotiating with them; 11/6, the date of the election. He had no illusions that 2012 would look like 2008, and pointed to th

ners' Affairs Issa Karake head of the Authority of Prisoners' Affairs, and revoked Minister Shawqi Issa's appointment to this position... (When the Fatah-Hamas unity government was formed in June 2014, Shawqi lssa became Minister of Prisoners' Affairs instead of Issa EFTA_R1_02208252 EFTA02722846

utch government and the EU must demand that the PA stop these salaries, which "result in a negative incentive as crime and terrorism are rewarded" [The Dutch House of Representatives, Motie 23432-376, July 3, 2014]. The US Congress is considering a number of legislative proposals to either completely cut funding to the PA or de