Nadene Goldfoot
The Palestinian Prime Minister, Salaam Fayyad, a moderate according to the West, has resigned. Most likely he wasn't being listened to by the more powerful henchmen of Hamas, who maintain their actions of terrorism and strong -arming Gaza. Jonathan Tobin, writing in commentary, feels this is a "pivotal moment in the history of the conflict". That's because Fayyad has been the Western hope for a technocratic Palestinian state. We're left with a weaker Abbas now, who has also threatened to resign and Hamas. The idea of a 2 state solution isn't looking so good for many reasons.
The Oslo Accords of September 13, 1993 never promised a Palestinian state. Agreements have never been reached. Everyone saw the Judea-Samaria and Gaza as one unit or one state-to-be. However, the heads of these two places never could come to any agreements that lasted more than a few weeks. One issue for Netanyahu and Rabin has been not to be set back to the 67 borders. A month before Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, he had said, " "Israel will not return to the lines of 4 June 1967″ and then stated that "the security border for defending the State of Israel will be in the Jordan Valley, in the widest sense of that concept."
Dr. Fayyad was born in Deir al-Ghusun in the northern part of Judea-Samaria. He has a PhD in economics from the U. of Texas in Austin. He taught economics at Yarmouk U. in Jordan before joining the International Monetary Fund in 1987 where he was a rep for the PA from 1996 to 2001. Then he was the regional manager of the Arab Bank in Judea-Samaria and Gaza until he became Yasser Arafat's finance minister. I wonder if he knows how much money Arafat kept for himself?
He resigned as finance minister to run as founder and leader of the new Third War party in 2006. Again on March 17, 2007, he became finance minister with the Fatah-Hamas coalition government. By June 14, 2007, Hamas took over the Gaza Strip and he was appointed Prime Minister of the new "Independent" government which was supported by Fatah, Israel and the West. He won his seat along with Hanan Ashrawi. When he was offered the position of Prime Minister, he had a few conditions that he wanted. One was that Hamas would recognize Israel, which they wouldn't do. One of his comments which must been seen as an antidote to Hamas terrorism was, "its the responsibility of men of religion to...present religion as a way of tolerance,...not as a cover for bloodshed. " Yet it has to be religion that is the cause of the Arabs not accepting Israel, causing much bloodshed on both sides.
Fayyad was credited for the US Congress' deposit of $200 million to the PA in 2009. Even with all that money, Fatah hasn't been able to pay their utility bills to Israel. They have been suffering economically. In October 2011 the USA withdrew funding to UNESCO after the Palestinian Authority (PA) was accepted into the United Nations as a full member. The USA's contribution to this organization is 22% of their needs. The PAof Judea-Samaria ran up a debt of $165 million dollars to Israel's electric corporation. Israel collects money for the Palestinians, so finally froze their money and used it to pay off their bill.
"For 30 years, Israel permitted thousands of Palestinians to enter the country each day to work in construction, agriculture and other blue-collar jobs. Until the mid-1990s, up to 150,000 people—about a fifth of the Palestinian labor force—entered Israel each day. After Palestinians unleashed a wave of suicide bombings, the idea of separation from the Palestinians took root in Israel. Israel found itself starved for labor, and gradually replaced most of the Palestinians with migrants from Thailand, Romania and elsewhere." What they did was to bite the hand that employed them.
Gaza has bombed southern Israel with missiles, mortars and rockets since 2001. This is not the way to induce friendships. In Judea-Samaria and Gaza, not many are working at anything except how to destroy Israel. Their unemployment is above 50%. No wonder Fayyad quit. They are depending on handouts which they are getting from Iran, Qatar and others as well as the UN. However, a country cannot be run this way. Fayyad knows this and is disembarking from a sinking ship.
Resource: http://www.blog.standforisrael.org/articles/fayyads-exit-signals-oslos-bankruptcy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Fayyad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/31/unesco-backs-palestinian-membership
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-08/16/c_131787926.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Palestinian_territories
The Palestinian Prime Minister, Salaam Fayyad, a moderate according to the West, has resigned. Most likely he wasn't being listened to by the more powerful henchmen of Hamas, who maintain their actions of terrorism and strong -arming Gaza. Jonathan Tobin, writing in commentary, feels this is a "pivotal moment in the history of the conflict". That's because Fayyad has been the Western hope for a technocratic Palestinian state. We're left with a weaker Abbas now, who has also threatened to resign and Hamas. The idea of a 2 state solution isn't looking so good for many reasons.
The Oslo Accords of September 13, 1993 never promised a Palestinian state. Agreements have never been reached. Everyone saw the Judea-Samaria and Gaza as one unit or one state-to-be. However, the heads of these two places never could come to any agreements that lasted more than a few weeks. One issue for Netanyahu and Rabin has been not to be set back to the 67 borders. A month before Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, he had said, " "Israel will not return to the lines of 4 June 1967″ and then stated that "the security border for defending the State of Israel will be in the Jordan Valley, in the widest sense of that concept."
Dr. Fayyad was born in Deir al-Ghusun in the northern part of Judea-Samaria. He has a PhD in economics from the U. of Texas in Austin. He taught economics at Yarmouk U. in Jordan before joining the International Monetary Fund in 1987 where he was a rep for the PA from 1996 to 2001. Then he was the regional manager of the Arab Bank in Judea-Samaria and Gaza until he became Yasser Arafat's finance minister. I wonder if he knows how much money Arafat kept for himself?
He resigned as finance minister to run as founder and leader of the new Third War party in 2006. Again on March 17, 2007, he became finance minister with the Fatah-Hamas coalition government. By June 14, 2007, Hamas took over the Gaza Strip and he was appointed Prime Minister of the new "Independent" government which was supported by Fatah, Israel and the West. He won his seat along with Hanan Ashrawi. When he was offered the position of Prime Minister, he had a few conditions that he wanted. One was that Hamas would recognize Israel, which they wouldn't do. One of his comments which must been seen as an antidote to Hamas terrorism was, "its the responsibility of men of religion to...present religion as a way of tolerance,...not as a cover for bloodshed. " Yet it has to be religion that is the cause of the Arabs not accepting Israel, causing much bloodshed on both sides.
Fayyad was credited for the US Congress' deposit of $200 million to the PA in 2009. Even with all that money, Fatah hasn't been able to pay their utility bills to Israel. They have been suffering economically. In October 2011 the USA withdrew funding to UNESCO after the Palestinian Authority (PA) was accepted into the United Nations as a full member. The USA's contribution to this organization is 22% of their needs. The PAof Judea-Samaria ran up a debt of $165 million dollars to Israel's electric corporation. Israel collects money for the Palestinians, so finally froze their money and used it to pay off their bill.
"For 30 years, Israel permitted thousands of Palestinians to enter the country each day to work in construction, agriculture and other blue-collar jobs. Until the mid-1990s, up to 150,000 people—about a fifth of the Palestinian labor force—entered Israel each day. After Palestinians unleashed a wave of suicide bombings, the idea of separation from the Palestinians took root in Israel. Israel found itself starved for labor, and gradually replaced most of the Palestinians with migrants from Thailand, Romania and elsewhere." What they did was to bite the hand that employed them.
Gaza has bombed southern Israel with missiles, mortars and rockets since 2001. This is not the way to induce friendships. In Judea-Samaria and Gaza, not many are working at anything except how to destroy Israel. Their unemployment is above 50%. No wonder Fayyad quit. They are depending on handouts which they are getting from Iran, Qatar and others as well as the UN. However, a country cannot be run this way. Fayyad knows this and is disembarking from a sinking ship.
Resource: http://www.blog.standforisrael.org/articles/fayyads-exit-signals-oslos-bankruptcy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Fayyad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/31/unesco-backs-palestinian-membership
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-08/16/c_131787926.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Palestinian_territories
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