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by Jonathan Schanzer

  23.“Black Pages in the Absence of Justice,” pp. 20–22.

  24.Ibid.

  25.“Occupied Palestinian Territories Torn Apart by Factional Strife,” Amnesty International, October 24, 2007, www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE21/020/2007

  /en/6609e419-d363-11dd-a329-2f46302a8cc6/mde210202007en.html.

  26.“Black Pages in the Absence of Justice.”

  27.Shlomo Shamir, “Arabs Thwart PA UN Bid to Condemn Hamas,” Haaretz, November 18, 2007, www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/arabs-thwart-pa-un-bid-to

  -condemn-hamas-1.233428.

  28.Steven Erlanger, “Hamas Seizes Broad Control in Gaza Strip,” New York Times, June 14, 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/world/middleeast/14mideast.html.

  29.Cam Simpson and Neil King Jr., “Hamas to Show an Improved Hand,” Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2007, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118575064310581669

  .html.

  Chapter 10 Backslide

  1.Interview with Aaron David Miller, Washington, DC, March 11, 2013.

  2.“Former Palestinian Oil Board Chief Arrested for Graft,” Agence France-Presse, January 4, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  3.“Palestinian Attorney General Vows to Fight Corruption,” Xinhua, February 5, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  4.Greg Myre, “Israel Makes Payment to Palestinians, but Says It Could Be the Last,” New York Times, February 6, 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/02/06/international

  /middleeast/06mideast.html.

  5.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Boycotts Bring Paralysis to PA Embassies Worldwide,” Jerusalem Post, April 11, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  6.“Palestinian Ambassador in Romania to Be Investigated After Accusing Fatah of Corruption,” Ma’an News Agency, July 11, 2006, www.maannews.net/eng/View

  Details.aspx?ID=187928.

  7.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas Sues Prominent Palestinian Editor for Libel,” Jerusalem Post, May 22, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  8.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Fatah’s Change of Focus,” Jerusalem Post, June 16, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  9.Khaled Abu Toameh, “If You Can’t Beat ’em Join ’em,” Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  10.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Fatah Central Committee Authorizes Unity Gov’t,” Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  11.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Fatah Activists Threaten Abbas With ‘Intifada,’” Jerusalem Post, August 29, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  12.“Dismissed Leaders Urge Fatah to Investigate All Cases of Corruption in the Movement,” Ma’an News Agency, April 29, 2007, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails

  .aspx?ID=195480.

  13.“Fatah Fighters Demand Reformation of Movement and an End to Corruption,” Ma’an News Agency, April 14, 2007, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx

  ?ID=195082.

  14.Ibid.

  15.Interview with Michael Singh, Washington, DC, March 29, 2013.

  16.“Corruption in Gaza Power Company Revealed by Deputy Chair of Palestinian Power Authority,” Ma’an News Agency, August 21, 2007, www.maannews.net

  /eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=198425.

  17.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Arrests TV Station Owner for Showing Haniyeh Press Conference,” Jerusalem Post, November 11, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  18.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas’s Latest Headaches,” Jerusalem Post, March 28, 2008 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  19.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Released Fatah Member Aims to Reform Faction,” Jerusalem Post, September 1, 2008 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  20.“PA Says Ministry Employees Took Bribes, Admitted Corruption,” Ma’an News Agency, October 21, 2008, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=205

  775.

  21.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Ramattan News Agency Shuts Down in Response to Raids,” Jerusalem Post, December 1, 2008 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  22.“Journalists: PA Censoring Dissent in Media Crackdown,” Ma’an News Agency, December 16, 2008, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=207033.

  23.“Palestine Investment Fund Moved Under President,” Wikileaks, February 8, 2006, http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/02/06JERUSALEM585.html.

  24.Email correspondence with PIF representative, May 10, 2013.

  25.Interview with Jim Prince, Washington, DC, May 10, 2013.

  26.Correspondence with PIF representative, May 10, 2013.

  27.Interview with Jim Prince, Washington, DC, May 10, 2013.

  28.“FACTBOX: Proposed Changes at Palestinian Investment Fund,” Reuters, April 28, 2009, www.reuters.com/article/2009/04/28/us-palestinians-aid-rules-factbox

  -sb-idUSTRE53R2HL20090428.

  29.Correspondence with PIF representative, May 10, 2013.

  30.Interview with Jim Prince, Washington, DC, May 10, 2013.

  31.“FACTBOX: Proposed Changes at Palestinian Investment Fund.”

  32.Adam Entous, “Exclusive-Debate over Control of Palestinian Investment Fund,” Reuters, April 28, 2009, www.reuters.com/article/2009/04/28/idUSLQ581028.

  33.Interview with Palestinian businessman, Ramallah, September 8, 2011.

  34.Mark Perry, “Dayton’s Mission: A Reader’s Guide,” Al-Jazeera, January 25, 2011, www.aljazeera.com/palestinepapers/2011/01/2011125145732219555.html.

  35.“Palestinian Group Accuses Hamas, Fatah of Abusing Human Rights,” Reuters, May 27, 2008, www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3548506,00.html.

  Chapter 11 Crushing Political Challengers

  1.Lawahez Jabari, Ranna Khalil, and Dave Copeland, “Resistance Through Reality TV? Young Palestinians Battle to Become ‘President,’” NBC News, May 6, 2013, http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/06/18017544-resistance-through

  -reality-tv-young-palestinians-battle-to-become-president?lite.

  2.“Profile: Mohammed Dahlan,” Al-Jazeera, August 11, 2009, www.aljazeera.com

  /news/middleeast/2009/08/200981184622781846.html.

  3.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Fatah Hamas Trade Threats to Assassinate Each Other’s Leaders. Hundreds of Thousands Rally in Support of Abbas,” Jerusalem Post, January 8, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  4.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Security Forces Remain Idle During ‘Pogrom’ in Ramallah,” Jerusalem Post, January 9, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  5.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Hamas, Fatah Leaders in Mecca for ‘Do or Die’ Talks on Unity,” Jerusalem Post, February 7, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  6.Avi Issacharoff, “Barghouti, Fatah Execs Urge Dahlan Removal,” Haaretz, June 19, 2007, www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/barghouti-fatah-execs-urge-dahlan

  -removal-1.223542.

  7.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Dahlan: I Predicted Hamas Takeover of Strip. Former Gaza Strongman Slams Qatar Iran for Funding Movement,” Jerusalem Post, June 28, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  8.Avi Issacharoff, “Mohammed Dahlan Resigns Following Fatah’s Gaza Defeat,” Haaretz, July 26, 2007, www.haaretz.com/news/mohammed-dahlan-resigns-fol

  lowing-fatah-s-gaza-defeat-1.226286.

  9.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas Resists US Pressure to Name Dahlan His Deputy,” Jerusalem Post, October 22, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  10.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Where There’s Smoke . . . ,” Jerusalem Post, August 1, 2008 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  11.Jack Khoury and Avi Issacharoff, “Abbas Tells Sixth Fatah Convention in Bethlehem: Peace Is Our Choice, Resistance Our Right,” Haaretz, August 5, 2009, www

  .haaretz.com/print-edition/news/abbas-tells-sixth-fatah-convention-in-bethlehem

  -peace-is-our-choice-resistance-our-right-1.281405; “Fatah Congress: Preliminary Central Committee Results Arrive,” Wikileaks, August 11, 2009, http://wikileaks

  .org/
cable/2009/08/09JERUSALEM1394.html#.

  12.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Lights Out for Fatah Station That Aimed to Counter Hamas,” Jerusalem Post, December 18, 2009 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  13.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas Fears Dahlan Trying to Take His Place,” Jerusalem Post, December 5, 2010, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=198141.

  14.Avi Issacharoff, “PA Suspects Former Fatah Strongman in Gaza Recruiting for New Armed Militia,” Haaretz, December 17, 2010, www.haaretz.com/print-edition

  /news/pa-suspects-former-fatah-strongman-in-gaza-recruiting-for-new-armed

  -militia-1.331029.

  15.Abu Toameh, “Abbas Fears Dahlan Trying to Take His Place.”

  16.Maher Abukhater, “Onetime Fatah Strongman Dahlan Struggling to Get Out of a Quagmire,” Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2010, http://latimesblogs.latimes

  .com/babylonbeyond/2010/12/west-bank-fatah-strongman-dahlan-struggling-to

  -get-out-of-a-quagmire.html.

  17.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Dahlan Denies Coup to Overthrow Abbas,” Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=202255.

  18.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Fatah to Probe Reports Dahlan Aiding Gaddafi,” Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=215324.

  19.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas Shuts Down Web Sites Run by Dahlan Supporters,” Jerusalem Post, June 11, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=224539.

  20.“Fatah Central Committee Expels Dahlan,” WAFA, June 12, 2011, http://english

  .wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=16419.

  21.“Former Top PA Security Chief Muhammad Dahlan Attacks PA President Mahmoud Abbas: He Can Take the Decision to Fire Me and Shove It,” Middle East Media Research Institute, June 13, 2011, www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2993.htm.

  22.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Palestinian Security Forces Nab Mohammed Dahlan Supporters,” Jerusalem Post, July 26, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx

  ?id=230978.

  23.“Palestinian Police Raid Home of President’s Rival, Arrest 23 Guards,” Associated Press, July 28, 2011, www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinian

  -police-raid-home-of-president-s-rival-arrest-23-guards-1.375754.

  24.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas ‘Feels He’s Above the Law,’ Charges Dahlan,” Jerusalem Post, July 31, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=231686.

  25.“Fatah: Ex-Gaza Strongman Mohammed Dahlan Poisoned Arafat,” Associated Press, August 8, 2011, www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/fatah-ex-gaza-strong

  man-mohammed-dahlan-poisoned-arafat-1.377635.

  26.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Commission of Inquiry: Dahlan Helped Poison Arafat,” Jerusalem Post, August 7, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID

  =232834.

  27.“Fatah Ratifies Dahlan’s Final Sacking Decision,” WAFA, August 14, 2011, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=16988.

  28.“Dahlan Lacks Parliamentary Legitimacy,” Palestine Today, January 10, 2012, http://paltoday.ps/ar/index.php?act=post&id=127502.

  29.“Mohammad Dahlan,” Facebook, January 30, 2012, www.facebook.com/moham

  mad.dahlan2/posts/287628904624572.

  30.“Anti-Corruption Chief Going After Foreign Accounts,” Ma’an News Agency, January 2, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=449451.

  31.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Jordan Seizes Assets of Mohammed Dahlan,” Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2012, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=253088.

  32.Yazid Sayigh, Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949–1993 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), p. 604.

  33.William A. Orme Jr., “Palestinian Investment Fund, No Longer Secret, Will Close,” New York Times, July 7, 2000, www.nytimes.com/2000/07/07/world/palestinian

  -investment-fund-no-longer-secret-will-close.html.

  34.Ronen Bergman and David Ratner, “The Man Who Swallowed Gaza,” Haaretz, April 4, 1997, www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/archive/articles/1997/the%20man%20who

  %20swallowed%20gaza%20-%2004-apr-97.

  35.Orme, “Palestinian Investment Fund, No Longer Secret, Will Close.”

  36.Phone interview with former PA advisor, June 4, 2012.

  37.Deborah Sontag and Jane Perlez, “Arab-Israeli Negotiations Turn on the Chemistry of the Central Players,” New York Times, July 16, 2000, www.nytimes

  .com/2000/07/16/world/arab-israeli-negotiations-turn-on-the-chemistry-of-the

  -central-players.html.

  38.“Abu Mazen: Had Camp David Convened Again, We Would Take the Same Positions, Part II,” Middle East Media Research Institute, August 6, 2001, www.memri

  .org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/490.htm.

  39.Phone interview with former PA negotiator, April 22, 2013.

  40.Daoud Kuttab, “Mohammad Rashid: The Ugly Rich Man of Palestine,” website of Daoud Kuttab, January 12, 2003, www.daoudkuttab.com/?p=172.

  41.Ibid.

  42.Arnon Regular, “Mysteries Multiply Over Yasser Arafat’s Missing Monies,”

  Haaretz, November 8, 2004, www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mysteries-mult

  iply-over-yasser-arafat-s-missing-monies-1.139575.

  43.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas Orders Probe of ‘Corrupt’ Judges Tied to Arafat,” Jerusalem Post, February 15, 2012 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  44.Karin Laub, “Officials: Abbas Envoys, Hamas Head Meet,” Associated Press, January 13, 2007, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/13

  /AR2007011300333_pf.html.

  45.Avi Issachroff, “Mohammed Rashid to Advise Abbas on Palestinian Unity,” Haaretz, January 14, 2007, www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mohammed-ras

  hid-to-advise-abbas-on-palestinian-unity-1.209949.

  46.“Former Arafat Aide Under Investigation for Embezzling Funds From PA,” Ma’an News Agency, March 26, 2008, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails

  .aspx?ID=201831.

  47.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Arafat Adviser Demands Extradition of PA Official,” Jerusalem Post, February 15, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=208369.

  48.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Fatah to Probe Reports Dahlan Aiding Gaddafi,” Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=215324.

  49.Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh, “Arafat’s Moneyman Targeted in Corruption Probe,” Associated Press, May 16, 2012, http://news.yahoo.com/arafats

  -moneyman-targeted-corruption-probe-173916721.html.

  50.Ibid.

  51.“Interpol ‘Refuses to Help’ in Arafat Adviser Case,” Ma’an News Agency, May 18, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=487029.

  52.“Habash Launches Scathing Attack on Mohammad Rachid,” Palestine Press, May 25, 2012, www.palpress.co.uk/arabic/?action=detail&id=49399.

  53.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Former Arafat Advisor Sentenced to 15 Years in Jail,” Jerusalem Post, June 7, 2012, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=273086.

  54.Mohammed Daraghmeh, “Arafat Moneyman Gets 15 Years for Corruption,” Associated Press, June 7, 2012, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/arafat-moneyman-gets

  -15-years-corruption.

  55.“Abbas Plans to Sequester Abed Rabbo,” Palestine Today, December 14, 2011, http://paltoday.ps/ar/index.php?ajax=preview&id=125290.

  56.“Abed Rabbo Dismisses Reports of Feud With Abbas,” Ma’an News Agency, December 28, 2011, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=448187.

  57.“Palestinian National Authority—The PA Ministerial Cabinet List April 2003—October 2003,” Jerusalem Media & Communication Centre, September 27, 2007, http://web.archive.org/web/20070927220148/http://www.jmcc.org/politics/pna

  /newpagov03.htm.

  58.“Abed-Rabbo Appointed as PLO Secretary General,” IMEMC, D
ecember 10, 2006, www.imemc.org/article/23137.

  59.“Fayyad Refused to Carry Abbas’ Message to Netanyahu,” Al-Quds Al-Arabi, April 19, 2012, www.alquds.co.uk/index.asp?fname=data20120404-1919qpt962

  .htm.

  60.Avi Issacharoff, “Top Palestinian Leaders Abbas, Fayyad Reportedly Cut All Contact With Each Other,” Haaretz, April 23, 2012, www.haaretz.com/news

  /diplomacy-defense/top-palestinian-leaders-abbas-fayyad-reportedly-cut-all

  -contact-with-each-other-1.425999.

  61.“Abbas Sacks Supervisor of Official Palestinian Media,” Xinhua, April 24, 2012, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-04/24/c_131548780.htm.

  62.“Palestinian President Sacks Abed Rabbo from Media Position,” Al-Quds Al-Arabi, April 25, 2012, www.alquds.co.uk/index.asp?fname=today25z500.htm

  &arc=data20120404-2525z500.htm.

  63.Avi Issacharoff, “Revealed: Netanyahu’s Secret Talks with the Palestinians,” Times of Israel, May 13, 2013, www.timesofisrael.com/revealed-netanyahus-secret

  -talks-with-the-palestinians/

  64.“Jailed Intifada Leader Registers Rival Fatah List,” Agence France-Presse, December 14, 2005 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  65.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Fatah Activists Blame Their Leaders,” Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2006 (accessed via ProQuest).

  66.“Palestinian Legislative Elections: Day After Election Day SITREP #1,” Wikileaks, January 26, 2006, http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/01/06JERUSALEM366

  .html.

  67.“Leading Fatah Member Demands Resignation of Fatah Central Committee,” Ramattan News Agency—BBC World Monitoring, January 27, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis).

  68.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Commission of Inquiry: Dahlan Helped Poison Arafat,” Jerusalem Post, August 7, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID

  =232834.

  69.“Fatah Central Committee Expels Member of Revolutionary Council Mashharawi,” WAFA, January 30, 2012, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail

  &id=18863.

  70.“Exclusive: Fatah Decides to Expel Samir Mashharawi,” Palestine Press, February 15, 2012, www.palpress.co.uk/arabic/?action=detail&id=37520.

  71.“Fatah Officials Criticize Abbas’ Said Intention to Rescind Official’s Immunity,” Palestinian Information Centre—BBC Worldwide Monitoring, January 12, 2012 (accessed via LexisNexis).