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March 27, 2012

What if the Palestinian Authority Collapses?

Yossi Alpher, Bitter Lemons

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The Palestinian Authority could conceivably disappear in a variety of ways. It could collapse due to financial insolvency, as PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has recently warned. It could be unilaterally dissolved by writ of PA President Mahmoud Abbas--as he too has warned--if Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rejects his conditions for renewing negotiations. Or it could somehow simply dissipate in tandem with the removal or withdrawal from the scene of the current West Bank leadership.

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