Israel/Palestine

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts) Fri Oct 9, 2015, 08:30 AM Oct 2015

PA at odds with Palestinians as West Bank protests escalate

For many Palestinians, the PA is not only ineffective, but a body actively seeking to prevent change.

One local civil servant told Ma’an: “To achieve our national goals, we should raise an intifada against the Palestinian Authority, because they are the hand of Israel.”

“Achieving that would be a big victory -- an earthquake for Israel.”

He said that many Palestinians were slowly recognizing the PA is an “obstacle to freedom, that they are traitors,” although he added that most with such views were “living underground.”

The PA has accomplished nothing for the Palestinian people over the past twenty years, but has provided an enormous benefit to the Israelis.

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PA at odds with Palestinians as West Bank protests escalate (Original Post) geek tragedy Oct 2015 OP

Abbas is in his eighties so who R. Daneel Olivaw Oct 2015 #1

After Abbas transitions from irrelevant to dead, the PA will almost certainly geek tragedy Oct 2015 #2

Lots of pain ahead no matter how you slice it. R. Daneel Olivaw Oct 2015 #3

the PA is a cash cow Mosby Oct 2015 #4

Only if people fund it. geek tragedy Oct 2015 #5

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)

1. Abbas is in his eighties so who

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 08:59 AM

Oct 2015

will be his replacement, or will the PA cease and Hamas take over?

I don't believe that a two state solution will ever be possible with the way that the right wingers are digging in.

We live in interesting times.

geek tragedy

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2. After Abbas transitions from irrelevant to dead, the PA will almost certainly

Reply to R. Daneel Olivaw (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 09:03 AM

Oct 2015

collapse due to internal power struggles and a lack of legitimacy within the Palestinian community.

The one guy semi-pragmatic enough who would have enough legitimacy (i.e. not corrupt or seen as a poodle of Israel) is in an Israeli prison right now.

Once the PA goes away, Israel's ultimate fate will be sealed as well.