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fiant Asad Sticks to His Guns Patrick Seale Foreign Policy In Focus Egypt's Evolving Foreign Policy Richard Javad Heydarian Foreign Affairs How Fatah-Hamas Unity Threatens U.S. Funding Douglas N. Greenburg and Derek D. Smith TIME Why the Muslim Brotherhood Are Egypt's Best Democrats Bobby Ghos

assan bin Talal is chairman and founder of the Arab Thought Forum and the West Asia-North Africa Forum. EFTA_R1_02031582 EFTA02690691 Arbelt 3. Stratfor Turkey's Inevitable Problems With Neighbors June 21, 2011 -- Syrian President Bashar al Assad delivered a long and uneventful speech Monday, duri

Post Avoiding a summer of blood David Ignatius Project Syndicate The Middle East's Slow-Motion Revolution Prince El Hassan bin Talal Article 3. Stratfor Turkey's Inevitable Problems With Neighbors Agence Global A Defiant Asad Sticks to His Guns Patrick Seale Foreign Policy In Focus Egypt's Evolv

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

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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

eign Policy How Hamas Won the War Aaron David Miller Article 3 New York Daily News The Fuel for The Flames Dennis Ross Article 4. Article 5. Stratfor Israel and Gaza: Then and Now The Washington Post The callousness of Hamas Richard Cohen EFTA_R1_00464339 EFTA01977723 The Wall Street Journa

as was the place he first delivered it — a television studio in Tehran. Rajoub's Jan. 28 visit to Iran was extraordinary for a senior official of Fatah, the secular movement that dominates the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas. Iran has been the major sponsor of Hamas, the EFTA00684677 m

an Option if Peace Talks Fail Karl Vick Article 4. The National Interest Syria: The Wages of Inaction Julie Lenarz, Michael Miner Article 5. Stratfor New Dimensions of U.S. Foreign Policy toward Russia George Friedman Article 6. The National Interest Five Futuristic Weapons That Could Change W

boycott [Israel]. Barghouti recommended that his people choose nonviolent opposition." Barghouti, as Haaretz noted, "is the most authentic leader Fatah has produced, and he can lead his people to an agreement. ... If Israel had wanted an agreement with the Palestinians it would have released him fr

in Washington visit William Wan Article 3. The Christian Science Monitor Israel is not the threat, Mr. Obama. Iran is. John Bolton Article 4. Stratfor Israel's New Strategic Environment George Friedman Article 5. Agence Global The Irrational US-Iran-Israel Dynamic Rami G. Khouri Article 6. T

e Rawabi paradigm: It's also funding two-thirds of the project, to the tune of over $600 million. This is enough money to single-handedly finance the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority -- which is effectively broke, thanks to penalties imposed by the Israeli and U.S. governments after Mahmoud Abbas's

leadership. And it also has no problem investing in Rawabi. According to Kamran Bokhari, vice president of Middle Eastern and South Asian affairs for Stratfor, Qatari support for Hamas is part of the sheikhdom's larger, post-Arab Spring strategy of siding with HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025087 --- PAGE BREAK --- th

e Rawabi paradigm: It's also funding two-thirds of the project, to the tune of over $600 million. This 1s enough money to single-handedly finance the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority - which is effectively broke, thanks to penalties imposed by the Israeli and U.S. governments after Mahmoud Abbas's s

leadership. And it also has no problem investing in Rawabi. According to Kamran Bokhari, vice president of Middle Eastern and South Asian affairs for Stratfor, Qatari support for Hamas is part of the sheikhdom's larger, post-Arab Spring strategy of siding with HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028721 --- PAGE BREAK --- the

ion freed OFAC to allow all transactions with the Fatah- controlled PA in the West Bank. But should Hamas

complex pieces of real estate in the world, is now finding that a foreign policy built on avoiding problems with neighbors grinds against reality. In STRATFOR's view, this was inevitable, which is why we took interest in Monday's issue of Today's Zaman, an English-language outlet loyal to the movement of Fe

to have a state but of the nature of a Palestinian state under current circumstances. The Palestinians are split into two major factions. The first, Fatah, dominates the West Bank. Fatah derives its ideology from the older, secular Pan-Arab movement. Historically, Fatah saw the Palestinians as a state w

epends on what others decide - which is the fundamental strategic problem that Israel has. Dr. Friedman is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of STRATFOR. Dr. Friedman is the author of The New York Times bestseller "The Next Decade: Where We've Been... and Where We're Going, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031924 ---