The Israeli operation in Jenin — the largest in the West Bank in two decades — has exposed the weakness of the Palestinian Authority, which many Palestinians view as increasingly irrelevant and out of touch.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — As hundreds of Israeli soldiers stormed into the Jenin refugee camp last week, Akram Rajoub, Jenin’s governor, was on vacation.
“Israel wants to collapse the PA,” said Rajoub, speaking in Ramallah, where he lives, 60 miles from the city he is in charge of running. It is just one measure of the distance that has opened up between Palestinians and their leaders.in Jenin — the largest in the West Bank in two decades — left 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier dead, and, Israeli politicians boasted, depleted the weapons stockpiles of new militant groups.
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