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Source: https://jcpa.org/article/can-israel-maintain-the-sham-of-an-existing-palestinian-authority/
Can Israel and the Palestinian Authority Continue to Cooperate?
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - The Palestinian Authority as one unified body has ceased to exist. In its place, two entities - Fatahland and Hamastan - have developed, both governed by despotic leaders. Veteran Palestinian leader Abbas is 87 and could disappear from the political scene without prior warning. Israel's prime minister has declared that maintaining the pretense of an existing Palestinian Authority is in Israel's interest. No Palestinian democracy or democratic institution exists. The Palestinian Authority is entirely financially dependent on Israel. The writer, Director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center, served for 19 years in the IDF Military Advocate General Corps and was director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria.