Israel has consistently demonstrated that it will stop at nothing to maintain its 50-year military colonisation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Its partner in crime: the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) was established under the 1994 Oslo Accords as an interim body responsible for governing 18% of land in the West Bank. Contrary to the unfulfilled promise of a “temporary” five-year period before the establishment of a Palestinian state, 24 years later the PA is desperately clinging to retain the minimal power they hold. This is now coming at the expense of the Palestinian people.
In the wake of rising unpopularity, it has been said that PA President Mahmoud Abbas is becoming ever more authoritarian as he clings to power in his late years, desperately attempting to steady the decline of the Palestinian National Movement and quell internal differences in his political party, Fataḥ. However, we may have recently been witness to the most explicit example of the PA’s repressive clampdown on dissent.
Read the article by Luna Alqamar in Crikey (registration required).
[Editor: Easy to blame Israel for what is a total failure of the Palestinian Arabs, who continue pushing their concocted narrative of victimhood down our throats.]