“I prefer Israeli sovereignty, a hundred percent,” said one
PA resident.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
There may be a huge gap between the
opinions of Palestinian Authority (PA) officials and PA residents concerning
Israel’s sovereignty plans, Channel 13’s Arab affairs commentator Zvi Yehezkeli
reported on Tuesday.
Yehezkeli interviewed several Arab
residents of Judea and Samaria about their opinions on Israel applying
sovereignty over portions of the territories. Some were interviewed openly,
while other interviews were documented with hidden camera glasses.
“It is a million times better for
Israel to be responsible for the entire territory. We’re ready to live under
Israel’s military boots rather than under the head of Abu Mazen [Mahmoud
Abbas],” one person said.
“What has the PA done for us?” one
businessman asked. “I don’t want a state. I want money. Money is preferable to
a state. The entire Palestinian people wants this. What does it want? It
doesn’t want the PA. The PA robbed us and destroyed us.”
When asked why Palestinians always
say they want a state, resistance, and intifada, the businessman replied, “Our
government is looking for it. We want money.”
Yehezkeli asked another man who
would win if an election was held in PA-controlled areas between Abbas and Bibi
Netanyahu. “Bibi,” the man responded without hesitation.
“In Israel there’s law and order.
Life is good,” said a PA policeman, adding that in the PA “all the money goes
to Abu Mazen, to the PA, to those leaders.”
“I prefer Israeli sovereignty, a
hundred percent,” he said.
Yehezkeli also noted that when the
United States moved the embassy to Jerusalem, the PA promised a wave of
violence, but the public mainly chose not to take to the streets. He feels that
on the issue of annexation, the gap between PA leadership and the people may be
even wider.
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