Unrest in West Bank Refugee Camps Is a Sign of What Palestinian Statehood Might Bring
After 22 years, the PA hasn’t dismantled the camps.
November 7, 2016
Unrest in West Bank Refugee Camps Is a Sign of What Palestinian Statehood Might Bring
After 22 years, the PA hasn’t dismantled the camps.
For some time, the Palestinian Authority has been failing to keep the peace in the refugee camps under its control; there have even been gunfights between PA security forces and militants, some of whom belong to a wing of Mahmoud Abbas’s own Fatah faction. This breakdown of order, writes Evelyn Gordon, says much about the prospects of Palestinian statehood:
November 7, 2016
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