07-20-2024, 05:06 AM
Two additional Israeli laws scheduled to come into effect on June 1 will also affect the PA’s financial situation: the Law for Compensation of Victims of Terrorism and the Law to Compensate Victims of Hostilities. Both will entitle victims of terrorist acts to claim compensation from the PA, to be taken from all PA funds over which Israel has control, including tax revenues. Naturally, this legislation could lead to lawsuits against the PA amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, potentially causing its economic collapse.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/poli...orcing-its
The PA has been steadily losing ground ever since. Today, a staggering 87 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza believe that the PA is corrupt, 78 percent want Abbas to resign, and 62 percent believe that the PA is a liability. This loss of popular legitimacy has had real-life implications. Even before the current war in Gaza, areas of the West Bank were practically ungoverned. The international community, appalled by the PA’s corruption and dealing with competing crises elsewhere, reduced aid. Diplomatically, outside powers continued to treat the PA as the legitimate representative of the Palestinians. But in reality, world leaders have largely given up on it.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/poli...its-people
Moneys are spent on non-existent entities, and here’s the best example: “salaries and raises were paid to employees of an airline company that no longer exists on the ground.”
https://www.cfr.org/blog/corruption-pale...-authority
Despite a general ban imposed on the entry of Palestinian laborers into Israel following the October 7 Hamas attacks, tens of thousands of permit-carrying workers from the West Bank have been entering Israel on a daily basis, according to a new report.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-osten...el-report/
The mainstream media is raking up another glaring failure by ignoring the situation in the West Bank. If Israel's policies tip over the Palestinian Authority and the fragile security situation, the West Bank will fall into the hands of terrorist organisations.
Nor does economically punishing the West Bank make sense policy-wise. Apart from giving Palestinians a financial incentive to support terrorism, Israel faced a sudden worker shortage.
Israel is strategically digging itself into a deeper hole with fewer escape avenues. Does Israel wish to end the two-state solution by unleashing anarchy in the West Bank? Valid arguments can be made concerning how the two-state solution hasn't been a viable policy option for decades. But there are sounder ways to make that point, furthering the existing security issues in that part of the world.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/poli...orcing-its
The PA has been steadily losing ground ever since. Today, a staggering 87 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza believe that the PA is corrupt, 78 percent want Abbas to resign, and 62 percent believe that the PA is a liability. This loss of popular legitimacy has had real-life implications. Even before the current war in Gaza, areas of the West Bank were practically ungoverned. The international community, appalled by the PA’s corruption and dealing with competing crises elsewhere, reduced aid. Diplomatically, outside powers continued to treat the PA as the legitimate representative of the Palestinians. But in reality, world leaders have largely given up on it.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/poli...its-people
Moneys are spent on non-existent entities, and here’s the best example: “salaries and raises were paid to employees of an airline company that no longer exists on the ground.”
https://www.cfr.org/blog/corruption-pale...-authority
Despite a general ban imposed on the entry of Palestinian laborers into Israel following the October 7 Hamas attacks, tens of thousands of permit-carrying workers from the West Bank have been entering Israel on a daily basis, according to a new report.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-osten...el-report/
The mainstream media is raking up another glaring failure by ignoring the situation in the West Bank. If Israel's policies tip over the Palestinian Authority and the fragile security situation, the West Bank will fall into the hands of terrorist organisations.
Nor does economically punishing the West Bank make sense policy-wise. Apart from giving Palestinians a financial incentive to support terrorism, Israel faced a sudden worker shortage.
Israel is strategically digging itself into a deeper hole with fewer escape avenues. Does Israel wish to end the two-state solution by unleashing anarchy in the West Bank? Valid arguments can be made concerning how the two-state solution hasn't been a viable policy option for decades. But there are sounder ways to make that point, furthering the existing security issues in that part of the world.
