Opinion | PA Security Network? No More | Israel Today

The recent knife and ambush shootings in the Occupied Territories and Jerusalem can give the impression of a popular uprising against the "occupation," such as the one in 1987, 20 years after the Six-Day War.

Hamas propaganda is indeed trying to describe them as an uprising against Israel and its alleged partner, the Palestinian Authority.

But this is not the case now in Samaria, Judea and East Jerusalem.

In terms of the level of active resistance to Israel, the situation is perhaps more similar to the defeat of the defeated that prevailed after the Six Day War.

Demonstrations in places like Jenin or Hebron, for example, are more directed toward the corrupt and failing Palestinian Authority, with the exception of friction points like the Nablus Gate or the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood in Jerusalem.

However, there is no picture of a burning "territory" in national hope.

Indeed, the Palestinians in the territories have good reasons for frustration and laxity in the face of the failures of the national movement, which is supposed to liberate them within the framework of a "Palestinian people." She is in a severe crisis. Anyone who thought that the anti-Palestinian Trump administration was nothing more than a temporary accident now sees that the Biden administration is also in no hurry to embrace the authority led by Abbas, a dictator under Israeli auspices who is calculating his days. No one really imagines an attempt to force Israel to "solve" two states detached from reality. The Taylor Force Act (supported by Democrats and Republicans in the United States) prohibits Democrats in power from financially feeding Ramallah's dictatorial regime because it distributes pensions to terrorists.

Europeans' pro-Palestinian passions have also cooled greatly in the face of deep corruption, the abolition of elections and the revelation of the brutal repression that the Ramallah Authority is forced to exercise in order to enforce its undermining authority in the various provinces of the territories.

When killed in the beatings of an opposition man like Nizar Banat, for example, it does not add financial health to the PA, which is begging for alms from Europe.

And the human rights of Muslims in the territories may not be important to the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia, but both they and Egypt, which has developed a dependence on Israel, have other reasons to abandon Ramallah.

The alliance with Israel and the fear of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood are the two most important of them.

Thus, there is no basis for the hopes of the pro-Palestinian Israeli left to impose an Arab-Muslim state on Israel in the territories.

Many on the left are deeply impressed by attempts to boycott Israel and Israelis, such as the recent one in the American Academic Association of Middle East Scholars, for example. It seems to them that these are clouds that herald a political winter for Israel.

The failed attempts to boycott Israel, which have historically had a "long beard" since the Arab uprising in the 1930s, are nothing but a result of political despair.

Fatah, when he headed the PLO, signed the Oslo Accords in the hope of undermining Israel.

This move was essentially blocked or suffocated, due to the lack of interest of the people of Ramallah in building a Palestinian nation and their murderous violence.

So why is Israel's security establishment in a hurry to save the PA?

Why is it being used as a lobby for their funding in the US and Europe?

All this stems from an understandable desire to prevent Hamas from taking over the heart of the country.

But it is approaching today that these considerations will be completely emptied of their validity.

As the PA's failure continues to worsen, it will lose internal legitimacy to the point where it will no longer be of any use to curb Hamas.

It would be better then to let the authority fall, properly for her.

And when it falls, it would not be right, of course, to expect zero action across the border in the Hamas takeover, as we did when Fatah members were thrown from the rooftops of Gaza in June 2007. Since then, Operation Defensive Shield has been operating throughout the West Bank.

He will be able to protect those very many there, who do not want Hamas rule.

They are responsible for preventing themselves from the terror of civil war.

We can help.

There is no need to save the Ramallah Authority, and there is no moral justification for this.

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