The Palestinian Authority and the Netanyahu government and the rapid collapse

In a visit, the first of its kind in ten years, the Palestinian President left his station in the Muqataa in Ramallah and arrived on board a Jordanian helicopter, to the Jenin camp to check on its conditions after the brutal Israeli aggression against it at the beginning of this month.

President Abu Mazen's visit to the Jenin camp and the city came after a ten-year hiatus, when he went there to support the camp's residents who committed suicide for the many times after they arrived in this camp in 1953 immediately after a short period of the Nakba, and ambiguity prevails in political circles as to what the continuation of Security coordination, or lack of it, after Israel almost completely destroyed the Jenin camp and evacuated thousands of its residents to nearby areas.

Some Arab countries had decided to send financial support to rebuild the camp and its residents, as this will be done only through the Palestinian Authority and not with direct support for the camp or the city, as money will be sent to the Authority and the Authority will carry out the reconstruction operations.

It is not certain how much of these sums of money can be sent to the Palestinian Authority, but the fierce Israeli policy that is being waged against the Palestinian people, especially against the Palestinian Authority, which is not in the best condition these days, therefore aims to accelerate the collapse of the Palestinian Authority and cause complete chaos in The Occupied Palestinian Territories that remained not under direct Palestinian control, such as Area A and B. Area C, Israel is working hard to change its features, as it confiscates lands and demolishes homes, allows Jews to buy lands and build settlements, and at the same time prevents Palestinians from any new construction operations in this area and supervises them in Lots of cases doing intense demolitions.

Israel has imposed security coordination on the Palestinian Authority, the extent of its efficacy or effectiveness we do not know exactly, but in the end it benefits the Israeli side greatly on the media and propaganda level. When Israel carries out offensive or aggressive operations against the Jenin-Nablus camp or Tulkarem, it gives the impression It informs the Palestinian side of its intentions.

But this Palestinian side is powerless and cannot prevent or mitigate any attack.

In one of the interviews with the journalist or former minister, Ziyad Abu Ziyad, who was responsible for the Jerusalem file, he said in Hebrew, and in an interview with a local media, that Israel completely abandoned its commitments to the Oslo Accords at the end of 1999 and twenty years ago, and it continues its policy of not Coordination with the Palestinian Authority, but rather in defeating the Palestinian presence in Area C and establishing many settlements, so that their number has increased today to five hundred thousand settlers in these occupied areas after reaching 200,000 settlers in 2000, an increase of 300,000 settlers in the last twenty years.

The policy of the new far-right government of the Netanyahu government, in the next five years, aims to increase the estimated number of 200,000 new settlers, bringing the total number to 750,000 settlers under this new government.

The Israeli government is conducting a violent policy of apartheid settlements and ghettos.

It is based on the Paris Agreements that were signed in 1994. The agreement was signed as part of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and it is the name used for the economic protocol attached to the Gaza-Jericho Agreement, signed between Israel and representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The agreement was signed on April 29, 1994, and then the protocol became part of the Oslo 2 Agreement (the agreement for the transitional phase for the West Bank and Gaza Strip), which was signed on September 24 and 28, 1995.

Where the protocol specifies that the Israeli currency (the new Israeli shekel) is the currency used in the Palestinian territories as the trading currency that is used there as the currency of exchange and payments for all purposes and its acceptance by the Palestinian Authority and all institutions, local authorities and banks. The Palestinians are not allowed to create a separate Palestinian currency.

As for exports and imports to a third country, including the determination of quantities, it is subject to Israeli control, and the protocol gave Israel control over the external borders and the collection of import and value-added taxes. According to the agreement, Palestinian trade with other countries will continue to pass through Israeli sea and air ports, or Through the border crossings between the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Egypt, which are also controlled by Israel. Although Egypt controls the Rafah border crossing, the Israeli blockade of Gaza continues.

It can be said that the signing of the Paris Agreement, which was an appendix to the Oslo Agreement, kept the occupation in its harsh form against the Palestinians, so that Israel did not fulfill its promises since 1999, but kept the Paris Agreement in which it controls the movements of the Palestinian economy and deducts taxes and value-added tax from it.

According to expert estimates, Israel earns about $9 billion annually from the movements of the Palestinian economy in the West Bank and Gaza, and returns to the Authority an amount of $2.7 billion, which is called the added value in which the Palestinian Authority manages its affairs, which is called clearing funds.

Israel is not satisfied with that, but it has begun to deduct, on an annual basis, large sums of money from the funds of the Authority returned to it, under the pretext of its demand to “stop the Palestinian side in legal cases and political moves in international forums, stop paying allowances for prisoners and families of martyrs, change teaching curricula that Israel considers incitement, stop incitement to Israel in the media and stop illegal construction in Area C.

As for the Palestinian Authority, which sees what is happening in the huge areas in the West Bank and allocating them for settlements and settlements and hastening to confiscate hundreds of thousands of dunams and deduct large amounts of their allocations, it has become difficult to cooperate with this extremist government whose financial leadership is headed by settler Smotrich and Ben Gvir. What is certain is that the situation is accelerating more and more towards collapse.

This year, the Israeli government confiscated approximately 287 million shekels from the Palestinian Authority's funds due to its support for the families of prisoners and martyrs and for the reconstruction, as it will do in the Jenin camp.

Therefore, it has become certain that the crisis is real and will lead to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, which is not desirable internationally, especially by Europe and the United States. Hence, Netanyahu sought to propose a plan full of subterfuge and lack of credibility, which claims that he will try to save the Palestinian basket from collapse.

If we examine this plan, we see that it is conditional, as it will establish industrial zones near Tarqumiya and Hebron, with the aim of absolute control over the Palestinian economy, but its allies also stipulate an increase in settlements in the areas of Jerusalem and deepening it in Area C.

We will see how the Palestinian response to this will be and what are the repercussions of that on the Netanyahu government itself with regional and international influences, as these matters are accelerating very quickly, and we will see how this will affect the deteriorating relationship between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.