(Ha'aretz) Amira Hass - If there are reforms underway in the Palestinian Authority, they still haven't been felt enough to change the prevailing negative opinion of the PA and its senior officials. It's enough to compare the modest homes of Hamas leaders to the fancy villas of PA officials; the gossip about how the children of senior officials are "in schools overseas," far from any danger; the complaints about the job vacancies in the public sector, which go to cronies and not to the skilled.
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