Martin Indyk, twice the US ambassador to Israel, writes in this month’s Foreign Affairs that an international trusteeship for the West Bank and Gaza is the only way out of the current quagmire. He made the same argument in 2003 and sums up that argument at the top of his latest essay:
Despairing that Palestinians […]
Entries Tagged as 'West Bank'
Another call for an international force in West Bank/Gaza
June 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: West Bank · US Policy · Gaza
Fatah weak in West Bank: DISKIN
June 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Israel’s Maariv newspaper recounts yesterday’s cabinet meeting:
Director of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin and GSS Director Yuval Diskin said Fatah could also lose control of the West Bank to Hamas. “Contrary to what you may think, Fatah is not soundly based in Judea and Samaria at all. The Fatah agencies […]
Tags: Intelligence · West Bank · Fatah
Reigning in Fatah’s gunmen
June 23rd, 2007 · 3 Comments
Khaled Amayreh, a Hebron-based writer who tends to sympathize with Hamas and reflect their point of view and always provides sage analysis, has a nice overview of the problems facing the Fayad government going forward, including the daunting task of reigning in the many rogue Fatah militias in the West Bank. You can read the […]
Tags: West Bank · Fatah · Hamas
Hamas goes to ground in West Bank
June 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
I spent the last two days running around doing interviews in the West Bank, in Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus. Hamas has definitely gone to ground and seems to be on the run, more so in the north than in the south. In the village of Shiyoukh, south of Hebron, the Hamas dominated town council is […]