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Former Palestinian Minister: Palestinian Authority Has Failed to Build a Properly Governed Lawful State
(MEMRI) Writing in the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam on Dec. 8, 2021, Ashraf Al-'Ajrami, former PA minister of prisoners' affairs, warned that the West Bank is in complete chaos, manifested in violent clan and tribal conflicts that are threatening public security. This situation results from the failure of all the Palestinian institutions which have not managed to build a national civil infrastructure divorced from clan and tribal loyalties. He added that the PA is losing its ability to govern because the public relies more and more on local and tribal frameworks to protect it and handle its affairs. He stated that the discourse of resistance, which glorifies weapons, only intensifies the phenomenon of citizens taking the law into their own hands and using their weapons to settle personal and local scores.