A Decree from the President of Palestine that makes sense

Moving from a state of internal chaos to structural reform.

The Palestinian political system is in a self-inflicted free fall. The results may be catastrophic for the just Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence. Most of the Palestinian people are looking on with utter despair, not only those living under Israeli military occupation in Palestine (West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip), but also those living in Israel, refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and amongst the diaspora worldwide. If corrective action is not immediately taken, Chairman Abbas and all the members of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian’s political agency, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), will be to blame.

The dire situation is not the immediate result of the Palestinian President and Chairman of the PLO’s flurry of recent controversial Presidential Decrees and Laws by Decree, rather it is an accumulation of decades of mistakes, mishaps, decisive and destructive partisan politics, forced geographic separation, and direct external intervention by foreign governments in Palestinian domestic affairs. Now, more than ever, is the time for President Abbas to admit failure and attempt to pick up the pieces of the Palestinian political system.