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The Palestinian Authority Will Find No Friend in ISIS
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Pinhas Inbari - PA officials have been challenging ISIS to turn its gaze toward Israel. They are playing with fire, because if ISIS does decide to act against Israel, it will undoubtedly act against the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah as well. The PLO wants to establish a Palestinian state. That goal totally contravenes ISIS' ambition to destroy the existing states and create a sharia-based caliphate in their stead. The writer, a veteran Arab affairs correspondent, is an analyst for the Jerusalem Center.