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| Israel-Palestine |
| Palestinian press blames PA, Arafat |
| 2004-07-18 |
| The Palestinian press has interpreted the latest outburst of anarchy in the Gaza Strip as an expression of pent-up, popular dissatisfaction with a corrupt and dysfunctional Palestinian Authority. The headline of Sunday's editorial in the Jerusalem-based Al-Quds read "It's not a transient crisis." "What occurred over the last three days in the Gaza Strip, from kidnapping security officials and French aid workers, may not be considered a transient crisis. It is a dangerous manifestation of a volatile internal Palestinian situation, which is the accumulation of unsolved quandaries that were never dealt with but left to deteriorate and intensify," the editor wrote. In an unusual proclamation for the newspaper, the PA, not "the [Israeli] occupation," was blamed for the latest quagmire: "An epidemic unemployment spreads through Gaza and the West Bank, leading to unbearable economic difficulties amongst various strata of our citizens, who feel that no sufficient efforts have been undertaken to improve their conditions and salvage them from the vicious cycle of poverty and despair," continued the editorial. "No measures are taken to put an end to mismanagement, selfishness, and favoring of individual interests over the sacred national interest." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 What? No joooos? It truly must be anarchy over there. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-07-18 11:33:33 PM |
| #1 Palestenians finally getting a clue about Yasser basically milking them dry? And now all the other mob bosses are trying to position themselves for a cut of the action. No need to fire that AGM-65 at Yasser, seems the people he is trying to govern are already sharpening their knives. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-07-18 9:41:47 PM |