[Toronto Star] Oakland Ross - Self-rule among Palestinians has led to a form of governance based largely on corruption, cronyism and brute force, that tends to produce regimes that are neither representative nor stable. "We, the Palestinians, have failed," says Bassem Eid, general director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. "I don't see a leader who can impose order upon the Palestinians." "In order to have a political party in Palestine, you need a militia," says Shlomo Avineri, former director-general of the Israeli foreign ministry. "The rules are coming out of the barrel of a gun."
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