The PA says it is preparing for an “emerging reality” in Gaza
again raging in Israel and the Palestinian territories. America had an ambitious plan to end it, with the support of Arab countries who offered to normalise ties with Israel. But America felt it could no longer work with the ageing, isolated Palestinian president. Peace would require new blood, and so America pushed the Palestinian leader to name a technocratic prime minister who would reform the corrupt Palestinian Authority .
The clear favourite to succeed him as prime minister is Mohammad Mustafa, an economist who heads Palestine’s sovereign-wealth fund, who has cultivated a close relationship with the president as his economic adviser. He would be acceptable to America and Israel—although less so with his own people . The hope is that he would clean up the’s endemic graft and dysfunction, a key demand of its supporters in the West and the Gulf in exchange for renewed financial support.
Both men ended their terms deeply unpopular with the Palestinian public. Yet they were also scapegoats. Real power was concentrated in the president’s office and among a handful of close advisers to Mr Abbas, including Majid Farah, his intelligence chief, and Hussein al-Sheikh, who seems to be his preferred successor as president. There are no indications any of that will change with a new government.
The final challenge is Israel. The next Palestinian prime minister does not only need money and power: he also needs a credible prospect of ending Israel’s occupation of the territories it captured in 1967. Otherwise most Palestinians will continue to see theAmerica has urged Binyamin Netanyahu to commit to restoring the’s role in Gaza, which it ruled until Hamas expelled it in 2007, and to serious post-war diplomacy that would seek a two-state solution.
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