Alaa Tartir, program director at Al-Shabaka says "Western and Gulf aid helped in entrenching, sustaining and subsidising the divide between Hamas and Fatah, which is harmful for the Palestinian people and their struggle for self-determination. It also created a cheap Palestinian internal divide,

Nadia Hijab, executive director of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, told IPS that Ban Ki-moon clearly succumbed to U.S. and Israeli pressure by not naming Israel or Hamas in the so-called “List of Shame” despite urging by rights groups such as Human Rights Watch.

Palestinian decision-makers have been talking about the introduction of a national Palestinian currency. Keeping in mind the national, economic, and financial repercussions of such a move, this article reviews the current monetary and financial system established by the 1994 Paris Protocol, and delves into the future prospects of issuing a national currency.

The role of the Palestinian security forces is rooted in the Oslo Accords of 1993, and a strengthened security apparatus has continually emerged in peace negotiations as a key component for future Palestinian self-determination, Alaa Tartir, an analyst with al-Shabaka - The Palestinian Policy Network, told Al Jazeera.

Three decades ago the Israeli military government canceled my sister-in-law’s Palestinian residency because she studied abroad for ‘too long.’ Now, Israel is denying her one last visit with her dying father. But my family will not allow her case, like thousands before it, to be buried in silence.

From the U.S. to Israel, legal systems are being exposed for harsh, rights-violating police actions. American politicians should be more alert to the discrimination and dispossession Palestinians face in Jerusalem and throughout Israel’s illegally occupied Palestinian territory, particularly at a time when racial injustices are receiving heightened attention from Ferguson to Baltimore to Tel Aviv.

According to Alaa Tartir, program director for Palestinian policy network Al-Shabaka, the question of dissolving the PA is irrelevant. The focus should be more about reconstructing the framework and obligations of the authority to its constituents, a step beyond reformation.

Nadia Hijab wrote about starting the US Campaign to End the Occupation in 2001 with Aruri as an adviser. Her obit at Palestine Chronicle of a teacher and a friend began: There are those whose life and work touch the lives of tens of thousands, for decades. Naseer Aruri was one such man.

Six ways Palestinians can change the rules of the game after Netayanhu's comments during the election made a just and equal peace even more elusive.  

Alaa Tartir, Program director at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, reported last week that 80 percent of Palestinians opposed continued security coordination with Israel, according to a recent poll.