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Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=284734
Are West Bank Riots the Start of "Palestinian Spring"?
(Jerusalem Post) Ilene Prusher - Jamil Rabah, the co-director of Near East Consulting in Ramallah, believes the recent protests will not lead to the ouster of the president. Rabah says it is more like Israel's economic protest during the summer of 2011. "I keep going around to check how serious this is, and I don't think it is as big as it's been hyped to be," Rabah says. What the crisis drives home, he says, is that the PA has failed to reduce its dependency on foreign aid and still is not effective in collecting taxes. "People want services, but who's to pay for them? The PA is afraid to go and collect taxes because they don't want to burden people."