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You skipped over the most important part.Phoenall, Hollie, P F Tinmore, et al,
For all practical purposes there ARE two separate entities of Palestine --- per se - de jure sovereign states; Gaza and the West Bank.
The Ramallah Government can pretend all it wants, that they have effective, sovereign or administrative control over the Gaza Strip; but it would not be true. In fact, the Gaza Government politically operates completely independent of the Ramallah Government,; except as a finance conduit. And the Ramallah Government takes no responsibility for the hostile actions HAMAS takes in the furtherance of their agenda.
We all pretend that the Declaration of Independence by the Palestinians in November 1988 had somehow established a cohesive voice and platform for the Palestinian people. But the Palestinian People have made a complete shambles of it.
(COMMENT)So we have two factions and two lands which is why I see a 3 state solution as the only way forward.
For the Palestinians to have a Contemporary Leadership, they must be able to do four key things:
1. Appreciate and nurture talent – Leaders must not be afraid to hire people who are smarter or more talented than they are. Often, leaders are not the most talented people in their organizations. The head of Disney animation could not draw. The head of the research center where the PC was invented was not a computer engineer.
2. Focus on what is important – When an organization loses sight of its main goals, it becomes a slogging bureaucracy. Physicist Richard Feynman worked on the WWII Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. To maintain security, the U.S. Army initially refused to tell the scientists what their calculations would be used to do; Feynman objected. He persuaded the generals to tell the physicists what they were working on and what role it would serve in ending WWII. Once the physicists knew the importance of the work, they improved the process and worked faster.
3. Build trust – Trust unites a group with motivation and integrity.
4. Develop a close tie between leaders and followers – on either the international level --- or --- the domestic level where a bond with followers to create an emotional link that pulls everyone in the organization to a higher level.
SOURCE: Contemporary Issues in Leadership by Robert L. Taylor and William E. Rosenbach (Editors) Westview Press © 2006
I see no evidence that the Palestinians show an appreciation for talent, or in any way nurture. Most ascensions in the ranks of Palestinian Political organization is due to death or political backstabbing. Nor can the Palestinians agree among themselves what is important of the Palestinian People, let alone what the major nations of the world recommend the Palestinians focus on. Whatever the Palestinian Leadership thinks is important enough to focus on, it is not regions peace and security. The Palestinian Leadership seldom agrees among themselves on what is important, on the future intentions, or in the manner of the relationships they have established internationally; but are more notoriously known for saying one thing to Arab/Muslim audiences --- and --- the near exact opposite to Israeli, the Quartet, and the greater International Community.
To date, all the Palestinians have done is demonstrate that with all the time that they have had and with all the donor financing they have received --- they haven't been able to pull the nation together either in peace, commerce or other critical developments. It is a failed state thus far.
Most Respectfully,
R
Who are these so called leaders and how did they come to power?