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72.“Mohammad Dahlan,” Facebook, January 30, 2012, www.facebook.com/moham
mad.dahlan2/posts/287425087978287.
73.Thomas L. Friedman, “Green Shoots in Palestine,” New York Times, August 4, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/opinion/05friedman.html.
74.“PA Minister of Finance Dr. Salam Fayyad Resigns,” Ma’an News Agency, November 19, 2005, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=179478.
75.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas to Receive Monthly Salary of $10,000,” Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2005 (accessed via LexisNexis).
76.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Economy Minister Charged with Corruption,” Jerusalem Post, November 29, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=247466.
77.“Anti-Corruption Committee: Minister to Face Court,” Ma’an News Agency, August 24, 2011, http://maannews.net/ENG/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=415389.
78.Lena Dirbashi, “Farmers Defend Embattled Agriculture Minister,” Ma’an News Agency, September 19, 2011, http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=4216
80.
79.Dan Ephron, “Palestine’s Split Over Statehood,” Daily Beast, July 14, 2011, www.the
dailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/14/mahmoud-abbas-and-salam-fayyad-disagree
-on-palestinian-u-n-representation.html.
80.“Palestine: Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State,” Palestinian National Authority, August 2009, www.americantaskforce.org/palestinian_national
_authority_ending_occupation_establishing_state.
81.Taylor Luck, “Politics Not Ripe for Palestinian Statehood Bid—Fayyad,” Jordan Times, December 5, 2011, www.americantaskforce.org/daily_news_article/2011
/12/05/1323061200_8.
82.“Salam Fayyad Signals He May Resign ‘For Sake of Palestinian Unity,’” Reuters, November 14, 2011, www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/salam-fayyad
-signals-he-may-resign-for-sake-of-palestinian-unity-1.395549.
83.Avi Issacharoff, “Fayyad to Haaretz: I Will Not Lead a Palestinian Unity Government,” Haaretz, December 2, 2011, www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news
/fayyad-to-haaretz-i-will-not-lead-a-palestinian-unity-government-1.399065.
84.Adel Zaanoun, “Hundreds of Thousands Join Fatah Rally in Gaza,” Agence France-Presse, January 4, 2013, www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hchLm
DQQYEPh84Hctkttwx9ytUZg?docId=CNG.d8019c30b155d3174b08eae5cb97
5567.171.
85.“Thousands Chanted ‘Dahlan Is the President,’” Palestine Now, January 5, 2013, http://paltimes.net/new/ar/prints/news/30833.
86.“Fatah Rally in Gaza Looks Toward Unity With Hamas,” Associated Press, January 4, 2013, www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/01/04/gaza-palestinian/18
08493/.
87.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Fatah Reinstates Plans for Gaza Anniversary Event,” Jerusalem Post, December 28, 2012, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=297
666.
88.“Dahlan Is Back to Fatah by Forming and Supporting the Electoral Lists for Municipal and Village Councils in the West Bank,” Al-Quds Al-Arabi, October 9, 2012, www.alquds.co.uk/index.asp?fname=data%5C2012%5C10%5C10-09%5C09
x85.htm.
89.See https://www.facebook.com/mohammad.dahlan2; www.youtube.com/user/Moh
madDahlan; https://twitter.com/mohammad_dahlan; www.dahlan.ps/. Others believed to be associated with him include: Amad, Fatah Voice, Firas Press, InLight Press, Karama Press, Kofia Press, Milad News and Palestine Beituna.
90.“Dahlan Launches Scathing Attack on Abbas,” Palestine Today, November 3, 2012, http://paltoday.ps/ar/index.php?ajax=preview&id=150501.
91.“The Calm May Not Last Forever,” The Economist, June 30, 2012, www.econo
mist.com/node/21557812.
92.Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh, “Palestinian Government Debt Hurts Private Sector,” Associated Press, August 18, 2012, http://bigstory.ap.org/article
/palestinian-government-debt-hurts-private-sector.
93.Dia al-Kahlout, “Possibility of Reconciliation Between Abbas and Dahlan Closer,” Al-Safir, March 4, 2013, www.assafir.com/MulhakArticle.aspx?EditionId=2401
&MulhakArticleId=1177262&MulhakId=5456.
94.“High Court Sets a Date for Appeal Against the Decision to Lift Dahlan’s Immunity,” Ma’an News Agency, March 5, 2013, www.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails
.aspx?ID=571648.
95.“Palestine Court Rejects Ex-Fatah Member Appeal Against Lifting Immunity,” Xinhua, March 28, 2013, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-03/28/c_13
2269390.htm.
96.Ali Sawafta, “Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad Offers Resignation: Sources,” Reuters, April 10, 2013, www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/10/us-palestinians-fayyad
-abbas-idUSBRE93917I20130410?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews.
97.“US Believes Palestinian PM Not Resigning,” Agence France-Presse, April 11, 2013, www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130411/us-believes-palestinian-pm-not
-resigning.
98.“Obama: Israel Has ‘True Partners’ in Peace in Abbas, Fayyad,” Real Clear Politics, March 21, 2013, www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/03/21/obama_israel_has
_true_partners_in_peace_in_abbas_fayyad.html.
99.Nasouh Nazzal, “Mohammed Mustafa Expected as Next Palestinian PM,” Gulf News, April 7, 2013, http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/mo
hammad-mustafa-expected-as-next-palestinian-pm-1.1167818.
100.“Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Resigns,” BBC, April 13, 2013, www
.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22139517.
Chapter 12 Quashing Critical Media and Protesters
1.“Amended Basic Law,” website of the US Agency for International Development, March 26, 2012, www.usaid.gov/wbg/misc/Amended_Basic_Law.pdf.
2.Email correspondence with George Hale, April 27, 2013.
3.“PA Arrests Palestinian Cartoonist,” Al-Haq, April 19, 2012, www.alhaq.org
/documentation/weekly-focuses/562-pa-arrests-palestinian-cartoonist-.
4.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Palestinian Journalists Decry Threats Assaults by Hamas Fatah,” Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis).
5.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Fatah Forces Beat Students Reporters at Hebron University Hamas Event,” Jerusalem Post, September 10, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis).
6.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Arrests TV Station Owner for Showing Haniyeh Press Conference,” Jerusalem Post, November 11, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis).
7.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Hamas Bans Fatah-Affiliated Newspapers. Death Threats, Arrests Are Being Used to Intimidate Palestinian Journalists,” Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2008 (accessed via LexisNexis).
8.“Journalists: PA Censoring Dissent in Media Crackdown,” Ma’an News Agency, December 16, 2008, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=207033.
9.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Ramattan News Agency Shuts Down in Response to Raids,” Jerusalem Post, December 1, 2008 (accessed via LexisNexis).
10.“Monthly Report on Violations of Human Rights and Freedoms in the PNA-Controlled Territory,” Independent Commission for Human Rights, January 2009, www.ichr.ps/pdfs/eMRV-1-09.pdf.
11.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Holding Six Palestinian Journalists Without Trial,” Jerusalem Post, February 16, 2009 (accessed via LexisNexis).
12.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Security Forces Summon Palestinian Journalist Who Criticized Leadership,” Jerusalem Post, January 10, 2012, www.jpost.com/Middle
East/Article.aspx?id=252914.
13.“Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Frank La Rue,” United Nations, June 12, 2012, http://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/47d4e277b48d9d3685256ddc00612265/6
8a8430f7c1ae732852
57a1c00512d46?OpenDocument&reason=0.
14.Email correspondence with George Hale, April 27, 2013.
15.“Palestinians Ban Al-Jazeera for Airing Arafat Conspiracy Allegations,” Reuters, July 15, 2009, www.haaretz.com/news/palestinians-ban-al-jazeera-for-airing-arafat
-conspiracy-allegations-1.280060.
16.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PLO Calls Estranged Leader Qaddoumi ‘Deranged,’” Jerusalem Post, July 15, 2009, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=148684.
17.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Issues Arrest Warrant for Shabaneh,” Jerusalem Post, February 11, 2010, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=168375.
18.“The Palestine Papers,” Al-Jazeera, www.aljazeera.com/palestinepapers/ (accessed July 5, 2012).
19.Robert Mackey, “Palestinian Police Are Said to Have Participated in Protest Against Al Jazeera,” New York Times, January 25, 2011, http://thelede.blogs.ny
times.com/2011/01/25/palestinian-police-are-said-to-have-participated-in-protest
-at-al-jazeera/.
20.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Facebook Slight of Mahmoud Abbas Lands Palestinian Journalist in Jail. 2 Bethlehem Men Arrested Under 1960 Jordanian Law, Then Freed,” Jerusalem Post, January 21, 2011 (accessed via LexisNexis).
21.Ibid.
22.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Bans Journalists From Reporting on Damning Human Rights Violation Report,” Jerusalem Post, June 9, 2011, www.jpost.com/Middle
East/Article.aspx?id=224143.
23.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Award-Winning Palestinian Journalist Forced Into Hiding,” Jerusalem Post, August 7, 2011, www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx
?id=232720.
24.“AG Sees ‘No Problem’ With Journalist’s Arrest,” Ma’an News Agency, April 1, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=473160.
25.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA to Try Local Journalist for Criticizing Medical Services,” Jerusalem Post, September 14, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx
?id=237862.
26.“Palestinian Security Forces Question 2 Journalists,” Associated Press, February 1, 2012, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/palestinian-security-forces-question-2-journ
alists.
27.Yousef al-Shayeb, “Palestinian Mission in France Accused of Spying,” Al-Ghad, January 30, 2012, www.alghad.com/index.php/article/527034.html.
28.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Detains Journalist Critical of Mission to France,” Jerusalem Post, March 26, 2012, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=2634
90.
29.“Ramallah Court Extends Arrest of Palestinian Reporter,” Ma’an News Agency, March 28, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=471992.
30.“AG Sees ‘No Problem’ With Journalist’s Arrest,” Ma’an News Agency.
31.“MADA Calls for an End to the Policy of Arrest of Journalists,” Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms, March 29, 2012, www.madacenter.org
/report.php?lang=1&id=1149&category_id=6&year=2012.
32.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Arrests Man for Facebook Anti-Corruption Drive,” Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2012, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=265181.
33.“AG Sees ‘No Problem’ With Journalist’s Arrest.”
34.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Steps up Crackdown on Journalists,” Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2012, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=264261.
35.“Security Official Says There Is No Control Over Media,” WAFA, April 9, 2012, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=19507.
36.“AG Sees ‘No Problem’ with Journalist’s Arrest.”
37.George Hale, “Palestinian Media Clampdown Spreads to the Web,” Ma’an News Agency, April 23, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=478726.
38.“Journalists: PA Censoring Dissent in Media Crackdown,” Ma’an News Agency, December 16, 2008, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=207033.
39.“Mahmoud Abbas Launches Attack Against InLightPress,” Israellycool, January 30, 2012, www.israellycool.com/2012/01/30/mahmoud-abbas-launches-attack
-against-inlightpress/.
40.“Report: Mahmoud Abbas Monitoring Phones of Top Palestinian Figures,” Israellycool, January 20, 2012, www.israellycool.com/2012/01/20/report-mahmoud-abbas
-monitoring-phones-of-top-palestinian-figures/.
41.“InLightPress Slams Mahmoud Abbas Over Hacking Attack,” Israellycool, February 1, 2012, www.israellycool.com/2012/02/01/inlightpress-slams-mahmoud-abbas
-over-hacking-attack/.
42.“Mahmoud Abbas Orders Another Attack on InLightPress,” Israellycool, February 3, 2012, www.israellycool.com/2012/02/03/mahmoud-abbas-orders-another
-attack-on-inlightpress/.
43.“Palestinian Authority Blocks Access to InLightPress,” Israellycool, February 9, 2012, www.israellycool.com/2012/02/09/palestinian-authority-blocks-access-to-in
lightpress/.
44.“Palestinian Intelligence Ordered the Telecommunications Company to Block Amad,” Amad, February 12, 2012, www.amad.ps/arabic/?action=detail&id=76964.
45.Hale, “Palestinian Media Clampdown Spreads to the Web.”
46.“Palestinian Communications Ministers Admits to Targeting InLight Press,” InLight Press, February 14, 2012, http://inlightpress.com/index.php?option=com_content
&view=article&id=9094:2012-02-14-10-02-03&catid=3:2011-07-04-18-39-20&
Itemid=304.
47.Hale, “Palestinian Media Clampdown Spreads to the Web.”
48.George Hale, “PalTel: No Choice in Web Censorship Orders,” Ma’an News Agency, April 25, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=479638.
49.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Minister Resigns Amid Censorship Row,” Jerusalem Post, April 26, 2012, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=267666.
50.George Hale and Wajde al-Jafari, “Abbas Lifts Ban on Critical Websites,” Ma’an News Agency, May 5, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=482
586.
51.“Palestinian President to Meet Israeli Vice PM: Official,” Reuters, June 28, 2012,
www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/28/us-palestinians-israel-idUSBRE85R078201
20628.
52.“PA Security Clash With Protesters in Ramallah,” Ma’an News Agency, June 30, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=500066.
53.“Injuries, Arrests Reported at New Ramallah Demo,” Ma’an News Agency, July 1, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=500424.
54.“PA Police Crush New Ramallah Demo,” Ma’an News Agency, July 1, 2012, www
.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=500441.
55.“PCHR Strongly Condemns the Use of Force Against Peaceful Demonstrations in Ramallah,” Palestine Center for Human Rights, July 2, 2012, www.pchrgaza
.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8591:pchr
-strongly-condemns-the-use-of-force-against-peaceful-demonstrations-in-ramallah
-&catid=36:pchrpressreleases&Itemid=194.
56.“PA Police Crush New Ramallah Demo.”
57.“PCHR Strongly Condemns the Use of Force Against Peaceful Demonstrations in Ramallah.”
58.“Activists Call for Ramallah Police Director Dismissal,” Ma’an News Agency, July 2, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=500566.
59.“PCHR Strongly Condemns the Use of Force Against Peaceful Demonstrations in Ramallah.”
60.“MADA: Attacks against Journalists in Ramallah a Flagrant Violation of Palestinian Law,” Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms, July 2, 2012, www.madacenter.org/report.php?lang=1&id=1184&category_id=6&year=2012.
61.“Union Condemns Police Attack on Palestinian Journalist,” Ma’an News Agency, July 1, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=500449.
62.“Pale
stinian Security Forces Assault Journalists at Protests,” Committee to Protect Journalists, July 2, 2012, www.cpj.org/2012/07/palestinian-security-forces-assault
-journalists-co.php.
63.“Ashrawi Condemns Violence Against Ramallah Protesters,” Ma’an News Agency, July 2, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=500745.
64.“Interior Minister Orders Investigation Into Ramallah Clashes,” Ma’an News Agency, July 2, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=500488.
65.“Live Report: Ramallah Protests,” Maan News Agency, July 3, 2012, www.maan
news.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=501059.
66.“High Ranking Officials Ordered Suppression of Ramallah Protests,” Ma’an News Agency, August 27, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=514925
&reason=0.
67.“Palestinian Authority: Hold Police Accountable for Ramallah Beatings,” Human Rights Watch, August 27, 2012, www.hrw.org/news/2012/08/27/palestinian
-authority-hold-police-accountable-ramallah-beatings.
68.“PA Slams Rights Report,” Ma’an News Agency, August 28, 2012, www.maan
news.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=515236.
69.“Abbas: Media Should Be Free,” Ma’an News Agency, July 2, 2012, www.maan
news.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=500597.
70.“Violations of Media Freedoms in the OPT During July 2012,” Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms, November 2, 2012, www.madacenter.org
/report.php?lang=1&id=1199&category_id=13&year=.
71.Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, “‘Palestinian Spring’ Unfolds: PA TV Mutes Broadcast When Citizens Criticize PA Leaders,” Palestinian Media Watch, September 12, 2012, www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=7428.
72.“Violations of Media Freedoms in OPT During September 2012,” Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms, November 2, 2012, www.mada
center.org/report.php?lang=1&id=1223&category_id=13&year=2012.
73.“PA Summons Palestinian Columnist for Interrogation,” Ma’an News Agency, October 31, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=532780.
74.Jihad Harb, “Presidential Decisions Are Made in a Coffee Shop,” Shasha, August 25, 2012, www.shasha.ps/more.php?id=36156#.UJPZOG9_CIO.