Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog

Avi Issacharoff in Ha’aretz: 4/4/08 reports an interview with Zakariya Zubedia in which he warns against Abu Mazen’s All or Nothing Approach’ and states that without a Permanet Status Agreement the Palestinian Authority will collapse. This reinforces the need for Israel to upgrade the PA.

“Abu Mazen’s mistake…is that he is gambling everything on the negotiations. And what happens if the talks fail? What is his plan then? I’m telling you that if by the end of 2008 a Palestinian state isn’t established, there is going to be a war here. Not against Israel, or between Hamas and Fatah, but against the PA…at the end of the year, when Israel doesn’t give the Palestinians a state, the PA is going to be thrown out.”

This connects to some of the thinga Reut has been recommending;

The need to change the ‘All or Nothing Dynamic’ and create a safety net for negotiations, such as a PSPB (Palestinian State in Provisional Borders)/ 3rd Israeli redeployment etc and upgrade the PA to help it survive the potential failure of negotiations

See: Failure of the Political Process: The Danger of Dissolution of the PA,

The Day after the Annapolis Summit

Gestures to the PA: Upgrading out of the Box