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USA to Israel: The Palestinian Authority has never been in such a bad situation, you must help
Israeli officials said that the Israeli-Palestinian case holder in the US State Department, Hadi Amar, who visited the area this week, warned the PA about the situation of a number of senior officials in Jerusalem.
According to him, the economic and political crisis in the PA, along with the lack of public legitimacy, could lead to a collapse.
"Like a forest waiting for someone to light a fire"
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Thursday, 15 July 2021, 23:00 Updated: 23:07
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Israeli-Palestinian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hadi Amar, who visited Jerusalem and Ramallah this week, warned in talks with a number of senior Israeli officials that the Palestinian Authority was in a difficult and dangerous economic and political situation and asked Israel to take steps to strengthen the government in Ramallah. Amar.
Amar arrived in the area on Sunday and began his meetings with senior Palestinian Authority officials in Gaza.
He then moved to the Israeli side and met the Minister of Finance, Hemed Amer, and senior officials of the ministry, as well as the Minister of Regional Cooperation, Issawi Farage.
In addition, Amar twice met with the coordinator of operations in the territories, Rassan Aliyan, as well as several senior Foreign Ministry officials.
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"The worst situation."
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Senior Israeli officials who took part in the talks noted that Amar emphasized to them that he had returned very worried from his talks in Ramallah. "I have never seen the Palestinian Authority in such a bad situation," he said. The senior US official emphasized in his talks in Israel that the combination of the economic crisis in the PA and the internal political crisis and the lack of public legitimacy of the PA create a dangerous and unstable situation.
"It's like a dry forest waiting for something to ignite," Amar told senior Israeli officials. "If the authority does not have the money to pay salaries, it could lead to a further deterioration and eventually to a collapse."
Amar presented a series of economic measures that Israel can take to relatively quickly improve the economic situation of the Palestinian Authority. The coordinator of operations in the territories, Ministry of Finance officials and Foreign Ministry officials replied to Amar that they believe that the economic situation in the PA is actually improving due to the end of the corona closure, but expressed a willingness to take steps to help strengthen the Palestinian Authority.
In his talks in Ramallah and Israel, Amar conveyed the same message to both sides.
He stated that he did not intend to pressure them or beg them to take steps to improve the situation, but stressed that in the end the continued deterioration would harm Palestinians and Israelis.
"You have to resolve the situation yourself and if you want our help we will listen to help," he told his interlocutors in Ramallah and Israel.
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