The ceasefire, they say, was the Tanzim's contribution to a new PA program of "reform" based on Israel's gradual withdrawal from the Palestinian areas in return for the PA's gradual resumption of policing duties within them.
Ignoring the fact that the pact paves the way for Hamas's integration into the PA's US-trained security forces, and its membership in the PLO, Raviv vapidly claimed that the villain in all of the recent developments is none other than Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is destroying all chance of peace by pointing out that the Palestinians have opted for war.
Fayyad's first move was to consolidate the PA's funds into a single treasury account under his control.
After Mediaset's footage was published, Ricardo Cristiani, a reporter for RAI television, Mediaset's state-owned competitor, published an apology in the PA's official trumpet Al-Hayat al-Jadida.
Meanwhile, Isaac Caton, government-affairs chairman of the state's PA group, said the state's restrictions prompt about half of its graduating PAs to seek jobs elsewhere.
PA's most effective weapon would be incontrovertible signs that it is bringing violence under control.
PA's young guard has at least three competing leaders, each with his loyalists.
However, it is doubtful whether the sudden change of policy will be enough to salvage the PA's tarnished image.
The PA's decision to delay endorsement of the report was quickly and vehemently denounced by all the Palestinian political factions.
He is using standard accounting to take control of the PA's mysterious finances and open them up for all to see.
"We've shrunk a 30-foot base station into a three-inch Raspberry Pi and created our own mobile phone network, " said PA's Frazer Bennett.
PA's birth in 1994, Mr Arafat has used force and persuasion to try to get Hamas to accede to two basic demands.
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PA's authority, something Israel sees as a precondition for any peace talks.
Then there is the US direct assistance to the PA's operating budget.
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PA's presidency is restricted to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
As the PA's fortunes in the West Bank have waned, those of Hamas, the Islamist movement that runs the Gaza Strip, have waxed.
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And contenders are already baying to replace the PA's increasingly frail president, Mr Abbas, now 75, who often says he wants to step down.
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However good the "He-Man breakfast" is, this will be the last time they can rely solely on the votes from Ma and Pa's diner.
PA's consultants were paid through a traditional partnership arrangement: every year the profits were carved up among the senior consultants in proportion to their salaries.
This came in the wake of a public outcry over the PA's unilateral decision in August 2011 to raise bridge and tunnel tolls by 50%.
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PA's police forces gingerly tried to arrange a ceasefire in Gaza along the lines of the truce that has more or less held in Bethlehem.
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But an optimistic view is that Hamas, on joining it, will be forced to toe the PA's official line of holding more negotiations with Israel.
To try to save the truce, Mr Abbas has sent the PA's police to intercept the Palestinian militants in Gaza and stop them firing rockets at the Israelis.
Its prime minister, Salam Fayyad, once the darling of Western donors, is threatening hefty tax increases on businesses, hitherto his biggest backer, and may slash the PA's payroll.
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PA's authority it would have to recognise the Oslo accords.
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It has also been agreed that the Israeli army will shortly pull out of five towns in the West Bank, handing over responsibility for security to the PA's forces.
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.
As a Palestinian analyst observed, the Islamists' new unity, however limited, should strengthen their bargaining position with the PA's new prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, over any possible new ceasefire.
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