Mahmoud Abbas’s latest electoral reforms amount to political theater designed to appease international donors while leaving the P.A.’s anti-democratic and pro-terror culture intact.
Palestinian Authority
By shouldering the onus of paying the PLO-PA’s ostensibly legitimate employees, the EU removes that burden from it and allows it to use its remaining funds to pay terror rewards.
The authority “continues to provide a system of compensation in support of terrorism through new mechanisms and under a different name,” the US State Department informed Congress.
The Palestinian Authority’s draft constitution enshrines pay-for-slay, Sharia law and the “right of return.”
Former terrorist prisoners were added to PA pension rolls or found jobs with P.A. security forces or civil service, according to Palestinian Media Watch.
An Israeli watchdog group discovered that terrorist families living outside PA territories received their full payments from the “Martyr’s Fund.”
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.
