- Dec 6, 2009
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Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is repeating earlier threats to dissolve the Ramallah regime. In a recent interview with the Haaretz newspaper, Abbas warned that he would "throw the keys" of the authority to the Israelis if Israel didn't stop building settlements and if no progress in the already moribund peace process was reached by the time a new Israeli government is formed.
Consequently, the PA has been hit with the severest financial crisis ever since its establishment in 1993-94. Some of the harsh manifestations of the current crisis include the inability of the Ramallah regime to pay salaries to its estimated 160,000 employees and civil servants, amongst them a 70,000- member security force whose main function is the suppression of any active resistance to the Israeli occupation and Jewish settlers.
PA is liability, not asset
There is no doubt that the dissolution of the PA would be good news for most Palestinians. Yes, some people would lose their jobs and some corrupt robber barons in Ramallah would suffer mostly temporarily. However, the overall Palestinian cause would gain.
First of all, the problem of Palestine would revert to square one, whereby Palestine is viewed as an occupied country and the Palestinian people is languishing under a foreign military occupation. Zionist propagandists and liars wouldn't be able to claim that 99% of Palestinians are under the jurisdiction of the PA, an obscene mendacity long regurgitated by the likes of Shimon Peres.
Second, the dissolution of the PA would represent a good riddance for many patriotic Palestinians. It would revive the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank and Palestinian soldiers tasked with protecting Israeli settlers against resistance attacks would train their rifles not against the resistance fighters but the occupation soldiers and settlers.
Dissolve the PA today, not tomorrow
Consequently, the PA has been hit with the severest financial crisis ever since its establishment in 1993-94. Some of the harsh manifestations of the current crisis include the inability of the Ramallah regime to pay salaries to its estimated 160,000 employees and civil servants, amongst them a 70,000- member security force whose main function is the suppression of any active resistance to the Israeli occupation and Jewish settlers.
PA is liability, not asset
There is no doubt that the dissolution of the PA would be good news for most Palestinians. Yes, some people would lose their jobs and some corrupt robber barons in Ramallah would suffer mostly temporarily. However, the overall Palestinian cause would gain.
First of all, the problem of Palestine would revert to square one, whereby Palestine is viewed as an occupied country and the Palestinian people is languishing under a foreign military occupation. Zionist propagandists and liars wouldn't be able to claim that 99% of Palestinians are under the jurisdiction of the PA, an obscene mendacity long regurgitated by the likes of Shimon Peres.
Second, the dissolution of the PA would represent a good riddance for many patriotic Palestinians. It would revive the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank and Palestinian soldiers tasked with protecting Israeli settlers against resistance attacks would train their rifles not against the resistance fighters but the occupation soldiers and settlers.
Dissolve the PA today, not tomorrow
