The impetus for Orit Strook’s letter was an Israel Security Agency statement at a recent Cabinet meeting that the PA would succeed in proving it had reformed its curriculum.

Much of the international community has clung to the fiction that Hamas and Fatah are different—that Hamas is irredeemably extremist, while Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority, is flawed but pragmatic.

Despite international assurances, PA textbooks continue to glorify violence, deny Israel’s existence and mirror Hamas ideology.

Riyadh has presented Washington with a plan to oversee comprehensive change within the Palestinian Authority.

However unreasonable and unfathomable it might seem, by Western democratic standards, Hamas is the legitimate leader of the Palestinian Authority.

European Union representatives confronted PA officials with evidence they continue to transfer funds to terrorists.

The PA should be replaced by a civilian administrative body that “does not seek to annihilate the State of Israel,” said the Israeli Finance Minister.

If the international community is genuine in its desire to provide aid to Palestinians and not to further line the corrupt Palestinian Authority officials’ pockets, it should reconsider the manner in which the aid is provided.

The Authority’s “weakness” means not only that it can’t disarm Hamas but that “Israel is left to dismantle the terror networks they refuse to confront” in Judea and Samaria, the Israeli envoy said.