One reason is that by taking part, he hoped to refute Israel's claim that when it talked to the PA, it was not dealing with Mr Arafat.
Shabaneh was booked for among other things, illegally working for the PA. It is indeed illegal for Israeli residents to work for the PA. But oddly, although Israeli authorities have known whom Shabaneh worked for since 1994, until his disclosures were made public, they never saw any pressing need to arrest or prosecute him.
PA. It includes establishing new chains of command, replacing equipment, rebuilding bases, creating bodies to monitor performance, and so on.
The PA says it has arrested some 60 people since the assassination.
In 2009, as Secretary of State, she pledged to Congress that the U.S. would only work with the PA after it ends this kind of incitement.
At home the government must stop all tax transfers to the PA. It must prohibit the deployment of the US-trained Palestinian army in Judea and Samaria.
Last week the PA announced it will ask the UN Security Council to pass an anti- Semitic resolution defining Jewish building in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem as illegal.
They increasingly question the point of the PA. It has failed to usher in a Palestinian state, and appears powerless to prevent Israeli military incursions or the relentless expansion of Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
Since the fighting in Qalqilya, Hamas has told its people to fight the PA as if it were the Israeli army.
So confident is Hamas that it can survive without the PA's banking system that it has just, for the first time, sent its police to raid a bank that had obeyed a PA order preventing a Hamas-run charity from having access to deposits.
PA's authority it would have to recognise the Oslo accords.
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Intel is doing everything to persuade Apple to stay with Core processors, but Apple is always interested in getting more mileage out of the crack team of processor developers it got when it bought PA Semi.
To get Rabin to set up the Palestinian Authority, arm the PLO, raise billions of dollars in international aid for the PA, and allow it to expand to the outskirts of Israel's major cities, Arafat lied and said that the PLO recognized Israel and would live at peace with the Jewish state.
Most important, Sharon barred the IDF from toppling the PA or even acknowledging that it was an enemy government.
We would have it onstage with us when we played, and I would mic it through the PA for between-song tape action.
Were Israel to follow Ros-Lehtinen's lead and cut off its transfer of tax revenues to the PA, and indeed, stop collecting taxes on the PA's behalf, it would be advancing Israel's interests in several ways.
Were the government to go after international aid to the PA, not only would it begin a debate in the US and perhaps Europe about the nature of Fatah specifically and Palestinian society generally, it would force the Palestinians' myriad supporters to justify their support for a society that is defined by its goal of annihilating Israel.
The plan has not been buried yet and further PA-Israel meetings to revive it continue.
PA, nor the positions within it, to be prepared to sacrifice all for its survival.
And Israeli and Western governments might withhold even more cash from the PA if Hamas were to join it while still failing unequivocally to recognise Israel or to disavow violence.
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What has been little noted is the strategic significance of the nature of Hamas's relations with the PLO-Fatah from the establishment of the PA in 1994 until Hamas ousted it from Gaza in 2007.
Since Obama has never called for any fundamental reordering of Palestinian society or for a reform of the PA's budgetary priorities, it is obvious that he doesn't have a problem with a militarized Palestinian state.
It may equally have to subject its armed militias to the PA's collective decisions and may start to lose popularity as it grapples with the mundane difficulties of government.
"They (Southern Kings) wanted to make a game of it, " McGeechan told PA Sport.
Israel will not stop raiding the bases of suspected Palestinian bomb-makers until it is convinced that the PA's security forces are disarming them.
Several relatives of those who died on United Flight 93, whose passengers tried to wrest control of the plane before it crashed in Shanksville, Pa.
The PA made the choice in 2000 when it rejected Israel's offer of peace and Palestinian statehood and joined forces with Hamas to wage a terror war against Israel.
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