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Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/11/30/does-the-world-need-a-weak-or-failing-palestinian-state/
Does the World Need a Weak or Failing Palestinian State?
(Wall Street Journal) Aaron David Miller - Henry Kissinger recently asked an intriguing and politically incorrect question: With the state structure weakened in several Arab states and having collapsed in others, with Iran and Islamic State rising, and amid general instability in the Arab world, why create another potentially weak, dysfunctional Arab state in Palestine? The region will be unstable for years to come, thanks to widespread dysfunction and/or plain bad governance, lack of respect for human rights, systemic corruption, and the absence representative institutions. And there is little in the history of the Palestinian national movement or the Palestinian Authority's governance style to suggest anything but disruptive politics, much less a smooth transition to functional statehood. The writer is a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.