Senior Commentator, Middle East expert Yoni ben Menahem talks of the current mood of the Arab street in Judea and Samaria: They are sick of the corrupt Palestinian Authority. They are begging for Israeli rule. Even the Arab states are sick of it.
In an interview for Arutz 7, Middle East expert and senior commentator on the Palestinian Authority Yoni Ben Menahem relates to the current mood of the Arab street in Judea and Samaria in light of the conduct of the Palestinian Authority and its leadership.
According to him, the Arabs long for the collapse of the Palestinian Authority and the return of Israeli rule in the area. “Abu Mazen is surrounded by an entire group that leads the line vis-à-vis Israel; it is a corrupt group that does not care about the welfare of the Palestinian people. They have opened a business here and the only thing that interests them is making money for themselves and their families at the expense of the Palestinian people”, says Ben Menahem.
As one who has been familiar with the Arab street in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip for decades, he states that “We are in a situation where the residents of the West Bank are begging for the return of Israeli rule, the rule of the Civil Administration, which will take care of things because as it is now, everything depends on paying bribes and collaboration with senior PA officials. They are sick of it”.
“The level of corruption in the PA has reached the point where even the Gulf states are ignoring the leadership, who want to present situation to continue and do not want to reach any kind of solution. They make personal income from the conflict and even the Arab states understand this, so they have decided to move on and leave the Palestinians aside, to look to their own interests and not deal with the corrupt Palestinian leadership, which is only interested in making money on the backs of the Palestinian people”.