In sensitive cases and moments, Arafat has taken the habit of making surprise moves, and this time was no exception when he issued his presidential decree on 5/10/2003 stipulating a state of emergency and the formation of an emergency government, following his meeting with Qureih. The emergency government consists of eight ministers, knowing that Arafat […]

Ever since Mahmoud Abbas became Prime Minister end of April 2003 and right until he resigned on September 6, he was being exposed to strong American and Israeli pressures, some of which he submitted to, and others he refused. He has also disagreed with Arafat on many levels, and waged individual but major battles with […]

They are doing everything they can to blackmail Abbas and his ministers. They deliberately embarrass and weaken them at all levels. The many political and security meetings that were held between the Palestinians and the Israelis revealed that Ariel Sharon and his ministers refuse to commit themselves to end the assassinations, arrests and storming the […]

Both the Aqaba and Sharm Al-Sheikh summits were incentives to boost the political movement toward the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict according to the vision suggested by Bush one year ago and drafted by the international Quartet, to become what is called the Roadmap. Palestinian-Israeli meetings, which had been frozen by the Sharon government for […]