American and Hamas officials secretly met numerous times over the last six months, according to a report in the online news website BuzzFeed. The meetings were held between U.S. intermediaries and Hamas’ leadership, which lives outside the Gaza Strip in third-party countries ranging from Egypt to Qatar and Jordan. Topics...

The Wall Street Journal late Wednesday criticized the Obama administration for agreeing to fund the recently announced Palestinian unity government – agreed to by the rival Fatah and Hamas factions, and unveiled earlier this week – with the outlet pointing out that the new cabinet’s refusal to dismantle Hamas’s military...

An article published Wednesday by one of Israel’s top veteran journalists assesses that the Palestinian Hamas faction has opted to follow the “Hezbollah model” – “bullets plus ballots” – in establishing a unity government with the rival Fatah faction: For Hamas, this means integrating into the general political system while retaining...

Lawmakers from both major parties and both chambers of Congress moved on Monday to condemn the formation of a new Palestinian unity government – agreed to in recent days by the rival Hamas and Fatah factions, and announced Monday morning by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – with Al...

Yesterday the Palestinian Authority announced the formation of a unity government together with the terrorist organization Hamas. Though State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki announced that the U.S. would “work with” the new regime, Israeli officials as well as an array of U.S. lawmakers are deeply skeptical that doing so would be...

Deepening concerns that Monday’s newly announced Palestinian unity government locks in a “Hezbollah model” for any future Palestinian state – a dynamic that has among other things proven terminal to Lebanese efforts to create robust political institutions – made their way into the day’s State Department briefing: QUESTION: The –...