Fatah’s political divisions are fueling an explosive mix of unemployment and lack of opportunity in the camps of the West Bank.

“Behind all the succession talk is another staple of Abbas’s rule: the purging of members of his own party. In recent years, Abbas has launched an all-out inquisition into dissenters among his own ranks,” writes Grant Rumley.

As Fatah starts its convention Nov. 29, Israeli intelligence sources warn that the Palestinian youth might turn their anger over the corrupt Palestinian political system to Israel.

Jordan is perhaps Fatah’s most strategic geographic partner, and thus it was a no-brainer that Fatah accepted the request by Jordan not to have any Jordanian Palestinian delegates attend the seventh Fatah congress.

As Fatah convened its leadership conference yesterday, excluded leader Mohammed Dahlan and his current promised to hold a parallel conference.

Young Hamas members are raising their voices against the deteriorating political and economic situation in the Gaza Strip and rejecting ideas by some of their leaders that are inconsistent with their line of thought, as if the era of full compliance with commands is over.

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon’s opposition to the controversial Regulation Bill [which will legalize West Bank settlement outposts built on private Palestinian land] stopped the measure in its tracks on Wednesday, according to multiple coalition sources familiar with the negotiations over the bill.

FMEP’s Matt Duss talks to Daveed Gartenstein-Ross about how Trump might change U.S. foreign policy.