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Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/04/13/palestinians-get-donor-birth-certificate%E2%80%9D/
Palestinians Get Donor "Birth Certificate"
(Commentary) Jonathan S. Tobin - The assertion that the PA could actually run a "functioning state" ignores a fundamental truth about Fayyad's regime. It is not merely dependent on massive foreign aid. It also could not function or survive without the protection afforded by Israel's military presence in the West Bank, the very thing that Fayyad claims he wishes to eliminate. Although the area's economy is starting to recover from the terror war started by Yasir Arafat in 2000, an Israeli withdrawal would mean that the terror groups who constitute the real power in Palestinian society might obtain the ability to transform this territory into another terrorist launching pad like Gaza.