Averting West Bank collapse: How to revive Palestinian politics

Averting West Bank collapse: How to revive Palestinian politics

Summary The Palestinian Authority, the West Bank’s governing body, is decaying under dual pressure: the weight of Israeli occupation and President Mahmoud Abbas’s tightening grip on power. Israeli settlement expansion, settler violence, financial sanctions and military control have hollowed out the PA’s capacity to govern, while Abbas’s dismantling of institutional checks and election-blocking has left a brittle system of personal rule. As the P…