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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11935
Israeli Official: PA Lacks Political Infrastructure for Peace Deal
(Israel Hayom) Shlomo Cesana - The Palestinian Authority has yet to form the political infrastructure that would allow it to reach a permanent peace agreement with Israel, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, director-general of the Strategic Affairs Ministry, said Wednesday at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. Writing for the Jewish Policy Center recently, Kuperwasser said Israel's relations with the Palestinians would continue to be complicated "because of Palestinian insistence on operating unilaterally, and their ongoing incitement to hatred and violence." "Chief among the difficulties is the Palestinian organizations' denial of the legitimacy of Israel's existence in any form, and specifically existence as the nation-state of the Jewish people," he wrote. "There are also the problems of the aging of the current leadership and radicalization of political discourse in the region as well as inside the Palestinian community. The current misperceptions of many European governments about the conflict offer no incentive for the Palestinians to drop their intransigence toward real, positive peace based on accepting Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. Palestinian policies bolstered by Western governments may well lead to increased violence and terror, though the Palestinians are reluctant to experience another intifada."