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This Ongoing War..
06 May '13..
It would be nice to think of the newly-evolved neighboring state of Palestine - the one recognized by Google in the past few days and by the United Nations a little earlier - as being normal, serious and operating like governments ought to.
The problems with today's reality are clear, starting with the fact that the president was elected in January 2005 to a four year term but holds tenaciously to power eight years later. Elections to the Palestine parliament were held once only in January 2006, and its 132 members remain in power too. (Note that they don't have that much to do since it no longer meets.) But there's no power vacuum; quite the contrary. Things get done. It's just that many of those things are disturbing.
The 2013 annual report (helpfully called "Corruption and Ways to Combat It”) of the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (known as AMAN in Arabic) and issued last month is summarized in a article released today under the heading "Report Highlights Corruption In Palestinian Institutions". It's a report that has gotten close to zero media attention.
The article is authored by Hazem Balousha, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza, and published on the Al Monitor site. As the name suggests, it deals with corruption inside the PA. This certainly does not mean the PA is more corrupt than that other Palestinian Arab government sitting in Gaza. It's just that the Hamas regime provides a far more problematic environment for digging around and revealing what the jihadists of Hamas are doing with their power and their money.
Some of the report's disclosures:
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