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74.“Palestinian’s UN Recognition Quest on Hold,” Associated Press, August 28, 2012, www.foxnews.com/world/2012/08/28/palestinian-un-recognition-quest-on-hold/.
75.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA’s Abbas to Delay Pursuit of UN Statehood,” Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2012, www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx
?ID=283327.
76.“Abbas Says Has Backing for New UN Upgrade Push,” Reuters, September 5, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=517620.
77.“FM: Arab States to Back UN Bid at General Assembly,” Ma’an News Agency, September 6, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=517937.
78.“Fatah Leadership Affirms UN Bid,” Ma’an News Agency, September 17, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=520797.
79.Jodi Rudoren, “Year After Effort at U.N., New Aim for Palestinians,” New York Times, September 20, 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/world/middleeast/pale
stinians-aim-for-nonmember-state-status-at-united-nations-general-assembly.html.
80.Joel Greenberg, “Abbas Set for Scaled-Down Bid at U.N.,” Washington Post, September 24, 2012, www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/abbas-set-for-scaled-down-bid-at-un/2012/09/24/b660cbca-0677-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_story.html.
81.“Statement by H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Abbas,” United Nations, September 27, 2012, http://gadebate.un.org/sites/default/files/gastatements/67/PS_en.pdf.
82.“Erekat: Consultations Underway Over UN Resolution,” Ma’an News Agency, October 1, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=525011.
83.“Newspapers Review: Israeli Foreign Minister’s Attack on Abbas Dominates Dailies,” WAFA, October 1, 2012, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id
=20774.
84.“U.S. Says Palestinian Status Bid Jeopardizes Peace Process,” Reuters, October 15, 2012, www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/15/us-palestinians-status-usa-idUSB
RE89E15P20121015.
85.“Abbas to Obama: Talks With Israel After U.N. Statehood Vote,” Agence France-Presse, October 16, 2012, www.naharnet.com/stories/en/57309.
86.Noah Browning, “Abbas Says Ready for Peace Talks If U.N. Recognition Bid Succeeds,” Reuters, October 24, 2012, www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24
/us-palestinians-israel-negotiations-idUSBRE89N12C20121024.
87.Noah Browning and Ali Sawafta, “Palestinians Lobby for Convincing Win in U.N. Vote,” Reuters, October 30, 2012, www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/30
/us-palestinians-un-statehood-idUSBRE89T11H20121030.
88.“Mohammad Shtayyeh Goes on an Official Visit to Scandinavia,” Ma’an News Agency, October 31, 2012, www.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=5327
92.
89.Mohammed Daraghmeh, “Palestinians Campaign for UN Recognition,” Associated Press, October 31, 2012, www.boston.com/news/world/middle-east/2012/10/31
/palestinian-threatens-quit-over-cash-crunch/6os134YxJ0o4MUhlXpf2dJ/story
.html.
90.Nabil Sha’ath, “Britain Must Atone for Its Sins in Palestine,” Telegraph, October 31, 2012, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority
/9645925/Britain-must-atone-for-its-sins-in-Palestine.html.
91.Barak Ravid, “Senior Israeli Ministers to Discuss ‘Retaliatory Actions’ against Palestinians Over UN Bid,” Haaretz, November 6, 2012, www.haaretz.com/news
/diplomacy-defense/senior-israeli-ministers-to-discuss-retaliatory-actions-against
-palestinians-over-un-bid.premium-1.475606.
92.“Abbas Congratulates Obama for Winning Presidential Election,” WAFA, November 7, 2012, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=21001.
93.“Erakat Hopes for Palestinian Statehood in 4 Years,” Agence France-Presse, November 8, 2012, http://dailynewsegypt.com/2012/11/08/erakat-hopes-for-palestinian
-statehood-in-4-years/.
94.“Palestinians Circulate Resolution That Would Raise Status at UN to Non-Member Observer State,” Associated Press, November 8, 2012, www.foxnews
.com/world/2012/11/08/palestinians-circulate-resolution-that-would-raise-status
-at-un-to-non-member/.
95.“Official: 51 States ‘Undecided’ Over Palestinian UN Bid,” Ma’an News Agency, November 9, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=535506.
96.Chris McGreal, “Palestinians Warn: Back UN Statehood Bid or Risk Boosting Hamas,” Guardian, November 27, 2012, www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012
/nov/27/palestinians-un-statehood-bid-hamas.
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1.“Arab League Chief to Brief PA on Financial ‘Safety Net,’” Ma’an News Agency, December 25, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=550983.
2.“Fayyad: Arab States Evading Commitments to PA,” Ma’an News Agency, December 23, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=550522.
3.“PLO Official: US Pressuring Arab Countries to Withhold PA Aid,” Ma’an News Agency, December 21, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=549998.
4.“Palestinian Govt May Take Loans From National Investment Fund,” Xinhua, December 31, 2012, www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.asp?id=116606.
5.Correspondence with PIF representative, May 10, 2013.
6.“Group: PA Losing Millions of Dollars Due to Border Inefficiency,” Ma’an News Agency, February 8, 2013, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=5627
70.
7.“Palestinian Watchdog: Corruption Continues,” Associated Press, April 24, 2013, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/palestinian-watchdog-corruption-continues.
8.Jillian C. York, “Make Fun of Mahmoud Abbas at Your Peril,” Al-Jazeera, February 13, 2013, www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/02/201321261532152376
.html.
9.George Hale, “Occupied Palestinian Territory: Linking Censorship and Corruption,” Global Information Society Watch 2021, pp. 186–189, www.giswatch.org
/sites/default/files/gisw_12_cr_o_palestinian_territory.pdf.
10.David Keyes, “Palestine’s Democratic Deficit,” New York Times, February 12, 2013, www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/opinion/palestines-democratic-deficit.html?_r=0.
11.“Financial Crisis in the West Bank,” New York Times, January 10, 2013, www
.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/opinion/financial-crisis-in-the-west-bank.html?_r=0.
12.Faine Greenwood, “Palestinian Authority’s Name Changed to State of Palestine,” Global Post, January 4, 2013, www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/reg
ions/middle-east/israel-and-palestine/130104/palestinian-authoritys-name-chang
ed-st.
13.Hugh Naylor, “State of Palestine Title Is Symbolic but a Political Risk,” The National, January 8, 2013, www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/state-of
-palestine-title-is-symbolic-but-a-political-risk#ixzz2HKIb7w6H.
14.Raphael Ahren, “Abbas Changes Name of Palestinian Authority to State of Palestine,” Times of Israel, January 4, 2013, www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-changes
-name-of-palestinian-authority-to-state-of-palestine/.
15.“Palestine Regained? The PA Gets Renamed Following UN Status Upgrade,” Al-Bawaba, January 7, 2013, www.albawaba.com/news/state-of-palestine-461933.
16.“PECDAR Begins Using State of Palestine on Official Documents,” Ma’an News Agency, January 7, 2013, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID
=554279&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter.
17.“Information Ministry to Use ‘State of Palestine’ on Press Cards,” WAFA, January 8, 2013, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=21470.
18.“PLO’s Central Council to Discuss Changes, Says Official,” WAFA, January 5, 2013, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=21457.
19.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Mahmoud Abbas’ Empty Threats
,” Gatestone Institute, November 1, 2011, www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2553/mahmoud-abbas-empty-thre
ats.
20.“Financial Crisis in the West Bank,” New York Times, Jan 10, 2013, www.nytimes
.com/2013/01/11/opinion/financial-crisis-in-the-west-bank.html?_r=0.
21.Roger Cohen, “Fayyad Steps Down, Not Out,” New York Times, May 3, 2013, www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/opinion/global/Roger-Cohen-Fayyad-Steps-Down
-Not-Out.html?pagewanted=all.
22.“Fayyad Denies Statement in New York Times Article,” WAFA, May 4, 2013, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=22289.
23.Roger Cohen, Twitter, https://twitter.com/NYTimesCohen/status/331354357801
054208.
24.Nathan J. Brown, “Are Palestinians Building a State?,” Carnegie Endowment, July 1, 2010, www.carnegieendowment.org/2010/07/01/are-palestinians-building
-state/1du.
25.Interview with Dennis Ross, Washington, DC, April 19, 2013.
26.Interview with Aaron David Miller, Washington, DC, March 11, 2013.
27.Interview with Dennis Ross, Washington, DC, April 19, 2013.
28.David Rose, “Hooded, Hanged and Left in Agony for Hours on End,” Daily Mail, March 30, 2013, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301682/Hooded-hanged-left
-agony-hours-end-Palestinian-security-chief-tells-tormented-suspects-MI6s-knowl
edge—reveals-Britain-helps-pay-33m-foreign-aid.html.
29.Interview with Michael Singh, Washington, DC, March 29, 2013.
30.Osamah Khalil, “Who Are You? The PLO and the Limits of Representation,” Al-Shabaka, March 18, 2013, http://al-shabaka.org/node/585.
31.Interview with US Treasury official, Washington, DC, February 14, 2013.
Index
Abbas, Mahmoud, 89–109
Abed Rabbo, Yasser and, 151–52
Al-Aqsa Intifada, 71
Arafat, Yasser and, 102–6
ascension of, 87
Bush, George W. and, 32–36, 97–98, 105–8
Cuba and, 96
Dahlan, Mohammed and, 143–47, 156
early life, 90–92
election and, 112
Fatah and, 92–94, 96, 99, 106, 108, 138, 153
Fayyadism and, 83, 153–56, 158–59
free speech, violations of, 163–65
Gaza police officers and, 127–28
governance by, 6
Hamas and, 120, 140
Hamas/Fatah conflict, 131
Jewish outreach portfolio, 98–99
Nazis, thesis on connection with Zionism, 96–97
non-member state status (UN) for Palestine, acquisition of, 173–76, 178, 180–81, 183–88
Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) and, 81
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and, 99–101, 106–7, 199
Palestinian Authority (PA) and, 107, 136, 154, 192–94, 199
political challengers to, 143–59
public opinion, 11
quashing of media and protesters, 162–63, 166–67, 169
Rachid, Mohammed and, 147–51
“right of return” and, 103
rise to power, 7–8
scholarship of, 96–97
Soviet Union and, 95–96
statehood recognition and, 1–3
support for, 38
Through Secret Channels, 89, 102
Abdullah, King, 129
Abed Rabbo, Yasser, 151–52, 179
Abington, Edward, 59–60
Abrams, Elliot, 79, 87, 107, 112, 126
Abu Ala. See Qurei, Ahmed
Abu Amr, Ziad, 118
Abu Mazen. See Abbas, Mahmoud
Abu Nidal, 27
Aburish, Said, 42–43
Abu Toameh, Khaled, 121, 151, 193
Abu Zuhri, Sami, 132
Achille Lauro cruise ship, attack on, 44
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 97
al-Ahmed, Azzam, 137
al-Aqsa Intifada, 31, 63, 65–71, 78, 116–18
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (AAMB), 67, 104, 128, 137
al-Aqsa Television Programming, 121
Al-Gombhuria, 99
Al-Haq, 162, 192
Al-Hayat, 185
al-Husseini, Amin, 15–16
Al-Jazeera, 163–64, 180
al-Natsheh, Rafiq, 147, 150
al-Omari, Ghaith, 105
Al Qaeda, 32
al-Qassam Brigades, 128, 130
Al-Quds, 46, 136, 157, 164, 170
al-Rantisi, Abdel Aziz, 118–19
Al-Safir, 158
al-Wazir, Jihad, 175
al-Zahar, Mahmoud, 118
American Task Force on Palestine, 9
Amir, Yigal, 30
Annapolis Peace Conference, 37
Arab Higher Committee, 15
Arab-Israeli peace process, 29
Arab-Israeli wars
1948, 17, 44
1967, 19–20, 43, 44, 93
1973, 22
Arab League, 19, 28, 93, 188, 191
Arab Spring, 11
Arab Studies Quarterly, 45–46
Arafat, Yasser
Abbas, Mahmoud and, 102–6
Al-Aqsa Intifada, 31, 65–68, 70–71
bank accounts, 58
death of, 7, 33, 106, 108, 120, 164
“Declaration of Principles on Palestinian Self-Rule,” 29
“divide and rule,” 144
Fatah, founding of, 19
Fayyadism and, 73–76, 79–80, 86–87
financial transparency, lack of, 55
governance by, 42–45, 49–51, 56–57
Hamas and, 115
Hussein, Saddam and, 28
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), control of, 20, 93–94
Palestinian reform plan and, 77–78
PA under, 6, 107
peace with Israel, rejection of, 117–18
personality of, 108–8
plane, missing, 100
Rachid, Mohammed and, 147–50
return of, 53–54
secret cells, 92
sovereign wealth fund, call for, 62–63
state of Israel, recognition, 99, 114
terrorism and, 21–22, 27, 44
UN speech (1974), 22–23
wealth of, 85
weapons, smuggling, 79
Areikat, Maen Rashid, 184–85
Ashrawi, Hanan, 111, 169, 178, 183, 185
Associated Press, 100, 150, 185–86
Atwan, Abdel Bari, 136
Auschwitz, 16
Baghdad Summit (1978), 46
Baker, Howard, 23
Baker, James, 28–29
Balfour Declaration (1917), 14
Barak, Ehud, 31, 63
Barghouti, Marwan, 56, 86
Becker, Jillian, 46
Begin, Menachem, 24–25
Ben-Gurion, David, 16, 17, 197
Berger, David, 21
Bergman, Ronen, 58
Biden, Joseph, 39
Black September, 20–21, 44, 94
Bloomberg, 60, 86–87
Britain, 15, 16
non-member state status (UN) for Palestine, acquisition of, 175–76, 189
British Mandate of Palestine, 14, 176
Brown, Nathan
on Arafat, Yasser, 70–71
on Oslo Accords, 53–54, 57–58, 60, 63
on Palestinian Authority, 66
on Palestinian independence, 196
B’Ts
elem, 48
bus bombings, Hamas, 30, 118
Bush administration, West Bank and, 145
Bush Doctrine, 111, 125
Bush, George H. W., 28–29, 78, 87, 97–98
Bush, George W.
Abbas, Mahmoud and, 7–8, 105–8
Al-Aqsa Intifada and, 70–71
Hamas and, 112
on peace process, 194, 195
policies of, 31–37
“Cairo Speech” (Obama), 38
Camp David Accords, 25, 148
Camp David II peace summit, 31
Camp David, Middle East Peace Summit, 102–4
Canawati, George, 164
Carter, Jimmy, 3, 23–25
Chehab, Zaki, 121
China, statehood and, 4
Chomsky, Noam, 26
Christison, Kathleen, 14, 17, 19
Citigroup Inc., 86–87
Clinton administration on funds to PLO, 182
Clinton, Bill, 29–31, 60, 77, 148
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 38
Cohen, Roger, 195
Committee to Protect Journalists, 168–69
Congressional Research Service, 123
corruption, 61, 63, 69–71, 84
Council of Palestinian Human Rights Organizations, 169
Crane, Charles, 14
Cuba-Palestine Friendship Association, 96
Dahlan, Mohammed
Abbas, Mahmoud and, 103, 143–47
emergence as leader, 156–58
Fatah and, 137, 152
free speech, violations of, 163–64, 166
Hamas and, 128
Davutoglü, Ahmet, 4
Dayton, Keith, 108
“Dayton’s Army,” 108
“Declaration of Principles on Palestinian Self-Rule,” 29, 51
Disengagement Plan, 119
Donia al-Watan News Agency, 139, 166
Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, 4
Eichmann, Adolph, 15–16
Eid, Guy, 21
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 18–19
Erdo, Recep Tayyip, 176
Erekat, Saeb, 176, 183–84, 186–88
Europe, non-member state status (UN) for Palestine and, 177, 182, 189
“Executive Force” (EF), 127–129
expectations, 195
Fatah
Abbas, Mahmoud and, 92–94, 99, 106, 108, 112, 138, 153
Al-Aqsa Intifada, 68
Central Committee, 96, 106, 137, 153, 186
Dahlan, Mohammed and, 144–46