Egypt has taken the first step towards revoking the citizenship of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar, according to a report appearing on Monday. The Times of Israel reported: Major General Hussein al-Ridi, an assistant to the interior minister for immigration and citizenship issues, told Dubai-based news channel Al-Arabiya that a request...

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Israel’s left-leaning Haaretz on Monday quoted a Hamas source describing the terrorist organization’s vision going forward under a possible unity government: A Hamas source has said the model being planned for the new Palestinian unity government is that of Hezbollah in Lebanon, in which the organization is a government party that has...

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Palestinian media outlets on Friday conveyed remarks by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh announcing that his group and the rival Palestinian Fatah faction had resolved issues surrounding the integration of security forces, as the two Palestinians organizations moved closer toward the implementation of a unity agreement aimed at establishing a single...

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Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s Prime Minister in Gaza, boasted late last week that Hamas and Fatah have reached an agreement on combining the two organizations’ security forces. The news site Ma’an reported: “We agreed on all the details of the security file, we are committed to what we signed. We will not allow...

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Hamas on Wednesday made a point of clearing out of the Gaza residence of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – a move that Reuters described as “the most concrete sign yet that [the group and Abbas’s Fatah faction] are moving toward reconciliation” – amid deepening concerns among analysts that...

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The Daily Beast on Wednesday published details of a new poll by The Israel Project – which the organization formally published later that morning – finding that “over twice as many Americans agree with Israel’s claim that they are not primarily to blame for the failure of the Middle East...

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Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth this weekend assessed that the Palestinian Authority (PA) faces what the outlet described as an “economic meltdown,” days before the two dominant Palestinian factions – Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Fatah, which controls Palestinian portions of the West Bank – announced that they were...

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A poll released this morning by The Israel Project (TIP) shows that voters overwhelmingly hold the Palestinian Authority (PA) responsible for the recent breakdown in peace talks and overwhelmingly agree with the stance – emphasized by both the Israeli government and the State Department – that Jerusalem can’t be expected...

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At the end of March, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hastened the end of the American-sponsored peace talks with Israel by pursuing membership in fifteen of international treaties (of which the PA was already in violation of at least 11). This week, the PA was accepted into the  United Nation’s anti-corruption treaty....

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Analysis published this week by the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) conveyed a variety of indicators – ranging from public data about Israeli-Egyptian energy agreements to recent statements by Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi – converging on the conclusion that Cairo is making a concentrated effort to boost and insulate bilateral...

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