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But the level of average incomes in the West Bank and Gaza will remain much lower under the latter strategy than in the situation where the Israeli labor market is gradually reopened for Palestinian labor.
This confirms the huge short term welfare cost to Palestinian society of restricting Palestinian workers' access to the Israeli labor market.
Palestinian officials argue that acceptance of the Paris Protocol, which formalized the de facto customs union with Israel that has existed since 1967, was conditioned on free access of Palestinian workers to Israel.
That access was intended to offset the cost to the Palestinian economy of granting preferential access to Israeli goods.
But the Palestinian/Israeli customs union is extremely costly because it impedes expanding Palestinian trade links with the rest of the world.
If Israel's labor market remains closed to Palestinian workers, maintaining this regime will become increasingly counter-productive.
But a return of Palestinian workers to jobs in Israel is by no means certain.
This makes adopting trade policies that facilitate Palestinian trade with Israel and the rest of the world even more crucial.
Without such a global trade option, the West Bank and Gaza could be prevented from exporting both goods and labor, producing even more dire and tragic consequences for the Palestinian people.
It was also the policy of the US after Hamas won the Palestinian elections in 2006.
Hamas in PowerThe victory of the fundamentalist Hamas in the Palestinian elections will have far-reaching consequences for the region, some totally unexpected.
The Hamas victory is, first and foremost, an indication of the total failure of the traditional Palestinian leadership to create a body politic.
To be sure, the new Palestinian Authority (PA) took power under difficult conditions, but which new liberation movement does not face serious challenges when it finally must govern?
It was not only the endemic corruption of the official Palestinian leadership that turned so many Palestinians from it.
That withdrawal was based on the conviction that the gaps between the Israeli and Palestinian positions are too wide to enable meaningful negotiations.
The resulting destruction brought reconciliation between warring Palestinian factions and support for them throughout the Arab world.
Direct engagement with the Palestine Liberation Organization or the Palestinian Authority and the government in Damascus will be necessary if secure negotiated settlements are to be achieved.
But this may not only be a matter of silencing an increasingly empowered minority;Israeli’s government could be laying the groundwork to suppress the Arab majority that would emerge if (or when) it annexes the occupied Palestinian territories.
If Samson was a Hebrew hero, his nemesis Delilah must have been a Palestinian.
On one hand, they want to achieve a comprehensive political solution with the Palestinians based on creating a Palestinian state, in exchange for real, lasting peace.
On the other hand, they understand that there is no Palestinian leadership strong or moderate enough to bring it about.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is less extreme, but its leadership is weak, doesn’t control Gaza, and is still full of hard-line elements.
Nor is there any doubt that the Palestinian people made a choice for democracy, which entails a choice for a negotiated peace with Israel.
The second difficulty concerns the fact that Sharon has always appeared to believe that it is within the means of the Palestinian Authority to eradicate all terrorism arising from Palestinian territories and aimed at Israel.
In order for the Palestinian people as a whole to cease to glorify, support, and shelter terrorists, they need to discover real hope for a new life for themselves.
They continue to preach that the respective “taboos” of their communities, the very issues that block all efforts to make peace – in particular, the status of Jerusalem and the right of “return” to Israel for Palestinian refugees – are untouchable and non-negotiable.
For Lampedusa’s residents, shipwrecks involving refugees and migrants are a common occurrence: a week later, a boat carrying Syrian and Palestinian refugees capsized off the shores of the island, leaving more than 30 people dead.
To create a Palestinian state when existing Arab states are crumbling – and with a part of Palestine controlled by Hamas – does not seem like a brilliant idea.
Recognizing the “Jewish state” would be a betrayal of the constituent ethos of Palestinian nationalism, while intrusive security arrangements would be a standing invitation to radical groups to fight what would be seen as occupation in disguise.
One would expect that, with the rising Iranian threat fostering tacit security cooperation between Israel and its more stable Arab neighbors (particularly Saudi Arabia), Netanyahu would aspire to resolve the Palestinian issue, thus removing the last obstacle to an overt strategic partnership.
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