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(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - On June 23, 2025, the EU announced that it was allocating 202 million euros to UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority. The EU's "multiannual Comprehensive Support Program" for 2025 to 2027 is predicated on a July 2024 "Letter of Intent" signed between the PA and the EU Commission. The letter says: "The Palestinian Authority commits to undertake the necessary substantial and credible reforms, with support from the international community. These reforms aim at establishing a democratic, transparent, efficient, and sustainable governance system by the Palestinian Authority." The commitments made by the PA expose the harsh reality of the failed EU support for the PA until now. From 2011 through 2023, the EU donated hundreds of millions of euros to the PA to establish functioning democratic institutions. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is now in his 21st year of his first four-year term. The last elections for the PA parliament were in 2006. In December 2018, Abbas decided to dissolve the parliament - which had not functioned for over a decade. The PA has been devoid of any semblance of democracy for almost two decades and, realistically, there is little to no prospect of the PA ever truly adopting democratic principles. Yet, the EU is still willing to swallow the PA's empty commitments and provide the PA with more and more funds. Perhaps the EU should ask the PA what happened to all the aid it has already received to promote this goal. It would seem that the EU has a foundational principle: No matter how broken the product is, the solution is just to throw more and more money at the PA, even in the knowledge that nothing will change. The PA apparently interprets EU willful blindness as accepting and even condoning the PA's actions, policies, and outright deception. The writer, former director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria, is director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center.2025-07-08 00:00:00Full Article
Can the EU Reform the Palestinian Authority?
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - On June 23, 2025, the EU announced that it was allocating 202 million euros to UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority. The EU's "multiannual Comprehensive Support Program" for 2025 to 2027 is predicated on a July 2024 "Letter of Intent" signed between the PA and the EU Commission. The letter says: "The Palestinian Authority commits to undertake the necessary substantial and credible reforms, with support from the international community. These reforms aim at establishing a democratic, transparent, efficient, and sustainable governance system by the Palestinian Authority." The commitments made by the PA expose the harsh reality of the failed EU support for the PA until now. From 2011 through 2023, the EU donated hundreds of millions of euros to the PA to establish functioning democratic institutions. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is now in his 21st year of his first four-year term. The last elections for the PA parliament were in 2006. In December 2018, Abbas decided to dissolve the parliament - which had not functioned for over a decade. The PA has been devoid of any semblance of democracy for almost two decades and, realistically, there is little to no prospect of the PA ever truly adopting democratic principles. Yet, the EU is still willing to swallow the PA's empty commitments and provide the PA with more and more funds. Perhaps the EU should ask the PA what happened to all the aid it has already received to promote this goal. It would seem that the EU has a foundational principle: No matter how broken the product is, the solution is just to throw more and more money at the PA, even in the knowledge that nothing will change. The PA apparently interprets EU willful blindness as accepting and even condoning the PA's actions, policies, and outright deception. The writer, former director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria, is director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center.2025-07-08 00:00:00Full Article
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