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The following are selections from the MEMRI Daily Brief series and the MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis series from 2021, by various MEMRI researchers and focused on a variety of topics.  

In light of Abbas’s consolidation of power and the lack of an heir apparent, U.S. engagement should be used as a lever to encourage Abbas to empower a successor. 

The six Palestinian NGOs were classified by Israel as terrorist organizations because of their affiliation with the PLOs Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by both the

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad prisoners, who have been convicted of terrorism against Israel, received wide coverage because they are being held in Israeli prisons. They are being held in prison because many of them were involved in major terror attacks

May 11, 2021 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Ministry of Interior and National Security in the Gaza Strip issued April 30 a statement about a complaint filed by reporter Riwa Murshid who was attacked by two members of a Hamas military unit — known as Hama al-Thaghour (Breach Defenders) — for not wearing the hijab in the Juhr al-Deek border area in central Gaza. The ministry said Murshid failed to notify competent authorities before entering the border area, and did not show any card prov...

Unreasonable laws blocking path to US-Palestinian rapprochement Daoud Kuttab Flags fly over the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington, September 12, 2018. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/gq6kb Throughout his campaign for the US presidency, Joe Biden made specific promises to the electorate, among them a number of foreign policy pledges. On the conflict in the Middle East, Biden promised to reverse some of the far-reaching decisions of his predecessor, such as closin...

New decrees by Abbas restrict Palestinian civil society New decrees by Abbas restrict Palestinian civil society Mahmoud Abbas is apparently promoting the elections in order to burnish the P.A.’s democratic image and gain the approval of the Biden administration, while at the same time using the decrees to cement his one-man rule. By S. Schneidmann Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas casts his vote at P.A. headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Dec. 3, 2016. Photo by Flash90....

Introduction Two presidential decrees recently issued by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas aroused intense criticism in the PA. The first, issued on March 2, 2021, imposes severe restrictions on the activity and finances of Palestinian civil society organizations.[1] The second, issued three days later, on March 5, suspends internal elections in all Palestinian professional unions for six months.[2] The civil society organizations fumed over the decrees, which they said were ai...

Thursday, 11 March 2021, 11:56 am Many Palestinian intellectuals and political analysts find themselves in the unenviable position of having to declare a stance on whether they support or reject upcoming Palestinian elections which are scheduled for May 22 and July 30. But there are no easy answers. The long-awaited decree by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last January to hold legislative and presidential elections in the coming months was widely welcomed, not as a triumph for de...

Many Palestinian intellectuals and political analysts find themselves in the unenviable position of having to declare a stance on whether they support or reject upcoming Palestinian elections which are scheduled for May 22 and July 30. But there are no easy answers. The long-awaited decree by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last January to hold legislative and presidential elections in the coming months was widely welcomed,  not as a triumph for democracy but as the first tangibl...