....the Jewish state can be blamed.

And if this is the way a future Palestine is run by the PA (like any other failed state in the region) then so be it according to the anti-Israel bigots.

This is what they support. This and Hamastan over in Gaza under Jihadist control.

Just lovely.

But why give it back when you can keep on stealing it?

Combat joblessness? Well, most governments, faced with the sort of unemployment found in Palestine - to say nothing of specifically refugee camps - would come up with a public works scheme. Rebuild infrastructure, expand communities, maybe even create some new ones, with roads and waystops to connect the two and encourage commerce.

Most governments aren't under a military occupation, however. To do that sort of thing, the PA needs to get permission from israel. and as we know by now, unless you have a kippa on your head and a gun in your hands, you're not getting Israel's permision to build anything.

Combat drugs and crimes? Well, most governments would respond to that by enlarging its policeforces, hiring and training new police to meet the problem.

Most governments aren';t under a military occupation, however. israel gets very skittish about the idea of Palestinian Police - to the point where it will bomb a police academy graduation ceremony cand call the hundreds killed 'terrorists."

And any government - occupied or no - would struggle to fund these projects anyway. Too bad in the PA's case a lot of its funding relies on the United States' demands that it further subjugate itself to israel's colonialism - a problem that isn't just faced by the PA, but also by UNWRA, as the US works its ass off to make sure its client state con conduct its conquest of Palestine unmolested and uncriticized.

The Palestinian Authority is failing Palestine, including these refugees. But it's not actually able to do anything but fail them.

Same style same accuracy.

Wait , did you forget a link?

That the Palestinian Authority was supposed to be a five-year transitional government?

To do that sort of thing, the PA needs to get permission from israel. and as we know by now, unless you have a kippa on your head and a gun in your hands, you're not getting Israel's permision to build anything.

Actually, this camp is right outside Nablus, aka: in Area A, where the PA governs over both security and civil concerns. IOW, no, the PA doesn't need Israel's permission to build infrastructure. What do you think scoot, that not a single building or road has been constructed or repaired for decades in the entire west bank?

Most governments aren';t under a military occupation, however. israel gets very skittish about the idea of Palestinian Police

So, you're saying that Israel has forbidden the PA from hiring or training any new police officers on the basis of their "skittishness?" Because I'm pretty sure the PA is allowed to do that. It's sort of implied by the word "security" in the description of the PA's responsibilities for Area A.

You know there used to be better access to jobs back when Palestinians were able to get israeli work visas easily. If it hadn't been for the intifada and subsequent suicide attacks the PA might not be so reliant on foreign aid to run its economy.

I also know that Nablus is surrounded by 12 settlements and 37 "Outposts," that those settlers regularly conduct violence against the people of Nablus, and that the Israeli Army stands in total support of these settlers doing so. What this means is that there is nowhere for Nablus to expand to... unless Israel permits it.

Again. Unless you have a kippa on your head and a rifle in your hands, Israel is not going to let you build or expand a community in the west bank.

It's interesting you bring up the Intifada, because during it, uniformed members of the Palestinian civil Police force were targeted by the Israeli military. Israel considers Palestinian police a military threat. Which is, again, why blowing up a few hundred unarmed graduating officers was celebrated as a victory over terrorism by Israel. Israel doesn't forbid hiring police. But it has coercive measures to punish the PA for doing so, whether as underhanded as denial of tax monies collected from Palestinians, or as brute as simply killing the police.

The infrastructure in Batala is crumbling. A public works project to repair and rebuild wouldn't involve the Israelis in any way.

Regarding the police, there are currently very few if any in batala. Your example of Israelis targeting Palestinian security forces references a single incident; a reprisal attack for the killing of several Israelis at a checkpoint by PA police. As fucked up as this was, it was 15 years ago and has nothing to do with the lack of police in batala today. Nor does the retainment of gaza's tax monies Israel occasionally institutes.

Your argument is that the PA is totally unable to aid this camp in any way due to oppressive israeli policies, like shooting police and retaining import taxes. In reality though, Israel isn't restricting the hiring of PA police or attacking them, nor is it refusing to give the PA its collected taxes.

According to the OP, resentment in the camp is aimed at the PA because they've been refusing to take any responsibility for the town, which the unrwa usually handles. But since the unrwa scaled back operations some 80%, the PA has refused to make up the difference in lost services. The issue is one of internal palestinian politics, classism and wealth distribution; which is why anger has been directed at the PA instead of Israel.

Israel considers Palestinian police a military threat. Which is, again, why blowing up a few hundred unarmed graduating officers was celebrated as a victory over terrorism by Israel. I

Actually the bombing you keep bringing up didn't kill hundreds of cadets. It was 40 people total, not all of whom were cadets. And I don't recall it being "celebrated as a victory over terrorism" either. But I realize you aren't a real stickler for accuracy with this stuff.

More importantly they weren't PA police, they were Hamas. And the bombing was part of a military conflict resulting from Hamas' refusal to end rocket attacks against Israel.

IOW, it's not really an example that supports your absurd conclusions.