'This is the worst point that I've seen the PA since its creation,' Ghaith al-Omari, former Palestinian National Authority negotiations adviser, tells Newsweek.
Just 30 years after the Oslo Accords set the stage for the formation of the first autonomous Palestinian leadership body to be recognized by Israel, the Palestinian National Authority stands on the brink of collapse, with dwindling territorial control, deteriorating popular support and no clear successor for its aging longtime leader.
Should the PA collapse altogether, Omari predicts that,"at least for a couple generations, this will be the end of the Palestinian national movement."A Palestinian protester yells at an Israeli soldier as he confronts him atop an Israeli army vehicle during a protest against Israeli forces conducting an exercise in a residential area near the Palestinian village of An-Naqura, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on September 4, 2019.
"Imagine the mindset that goes into a 19-year-old who picks up a knife and tries to stab a soldier. We're talking about an act that operationally has zero value in military terms, and that will almost certainly result in his own death," Elgindy says."And yet it is something that we see increasing, to car ramming, knifing attacks, shooting attacks, someone shoots an Israeli settler, the Israeli response is to level a section of a Palestinian refugee camp.
to power late last year was only accomplished by forming a coalition with the far-right, who seek to end Palestinian statehood once and for all while supporting expanded Jewish settlements in the West Bank, leaving unanswered questions about how to maintain a Jewish majority while exerting control over a sizable Palestinian population.
"I think at the end of the day Israel just has to use this opportunity to advance its interests," Or Yissachar, a former IDF intelligence analyst who serves as research director of the Israel Security and Defense Forum , tells."I don't see anyone seriously preparing for that. And when it happens, it's important that we prepare according to our national interests, so that we won't have five minutes to decide.
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