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    How the Palestinian Authority Failed Its People

    Make Palestinian governance better instead of leaving a vacuum for Hamas to fill.
    by Ghaith al-Omari Oct 19, 2023 5 minutes
    Palestinian demonstrators in Ramallah, on the West Bank, on October 18, 2023
    Source: Thomas COEX / AFP / Getty

    As the war in Gaza continues to intensify, the Palestinian Authority has been conspicuously quiet. Since its establishment in 1993, and particularly since the Second Intifada, in the early 2000s, the PA has been losing credibility not only diplomatically but also among the Palestinian people. Hamas rushed to fill the subsequent vacuum in ideas, politics, and security. Today the Palestinian people are paying the price. Any political arrangement made after this war in Gaza needs to focus not just on the future of the coastal strip but also on rehabilitating the PA.

    Since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Palestinian people have been presented with two competing, irreconcilable visions of their future. One, posited by the Palestine Liberation Organization—a secular, though by no means democratic, group and the parent

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