Minister Elkin: PA will collapse - not 'if' but 'when'

Minister for Immigration and Jerusalem Affairs Ze'ev Elkin (Likud) gave a talk at Bar Ilan University this morning (Monday), in which he presented his approach to the challenges that will face Israel once Mahmoud Abbas no longer runs the Palestinian Authority.

"The current wave of terror is a preview for the collapse of the PA. Most of the likely scenarios for the day after Abu Mazen [another name for Mahmoud Abbas] will lead to a lack of organized inheritance, to an internal fight for succession, to anarchy and the dismantling of the PA," he said. "The ones who will have to pay the price for anarchy in the PA are Israeli citizens, particularly the communities in Judea and Samaria. We must prepare for even worse attacks."

Elkin added that "the question is not if the PA collapses but when it is going to collapse. This is the reason we must prepare our security and stop the futile discussions over whether or not it is good for the State of Israel. The PA will collapse whether we like it or not and the State of Israel had better accept that the train has left the station. At the moment, sadly, it seems that we have not yet internalized the new situation and we are not properly preparing ourselves.

He further noted, "The international community must also stop trying to strengthen the Palestinian Authority, because it is just an attempt at resuscitation that will blow up in our faces. It's true that there are a number of scenarios, but the most likely scenario to me is that anarchy will result from the lack of a clear successor to Abu Mazen, due to his unwillingness to hold elections for the presidency and the surplus of legal and illegal weapons in the PA's territory. There is no point in trying to revive the PA, and instead we should make a fitting headstone for its grave, along with that of the Oslo Accords. The Palestinian Authority was born with Abu Mazen, who initiated and pushed for Oslo, and the PA will disappear with Abu Mazen when he goes."

Despite this, he does not believe that even elections could change the outcome. "Most of the Fatah candidates will never win an election against Hamas. The only one who will is in Israeli jail - Marwan Barghouti." Regardless of how it happen, though, "if the PA collapses the world will blame Israel."

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It's all Israel's fault that whatever happens is Israel's fault./s

Israel, the USA, Europe and some Arab nations have done their best to prop up the PLO, oops, I mean PA, Palestine Liberation Organization...oops, I mean Palestinian Authority since they wedged in their Trojan Horse inside Israel in 1993.

Every day of every year, the PA promises the Arabs that military victory (what they called the “Armed struggle”) is at hand soon and they will conquer all of Israel.

Look at all the Palestinian flags, symbols and key chains...they show ALL OF ISRAEL as the image. So, where's the "compromise"??? They PLO leadership has been promising them this since the early 1960’s when they were formed. Funny, the PLO was formed BEFORE the 1967 Six Day War when Israel conquered the so-called “Occupied Territories”. What did the PLO want in 1963? Which “occupied territories did they want then? Oh, right, the 1917 borders, got it!.

In any event, the PLO is comfortable playing the victim card now for 60 years and the cash flowed into the PLO coffers and still do.

The PLO, oops, I mean PA WANTS TO BE ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE all the time because that way, they get the world's attention though, they do not deserve it.

They have been saved from themselves hundreds of times and now the gig is up: YOU SCUMBAGS DO NOT and never wanted PEACE so stop your bellyaching and get on with making some kind of peace! No more pressure on Israel! No more lies and hatred. No more teaching your kids that it is a gift to stab a Jew. Grow the f—— up already will you?

“YOU SCUMBAGS DO NOT and never wanted PEACE so stop your bellyaching and get on with making some kind of peace! No more pressure on Israel! No more lies and hatred. No more teaching your kids that it is a gift to stab a Jew. Grow the f—— up already will you? “

Answer: But then what will we live for?

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