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Ruling Palestine II: The West Bank Model?
Ruling Palestine II: The West Bank Model?
Table of Contents
  1. Executive Summary
Realigning European Policy toward Palestine with Ground Realities
Realigning European Policy toward Palestine with Ground Realities
Table of Contents
  1. Executive Summary
  2. Introduction
  3. The PA’s Political Crisis: A European Conundrum
    1. Discomfort with the PA’s Authoritarian Drift
    2. Stability or Better Governance?
    3. Fear of a Pandora’s Box Effect
    4. What PA Leaders Say
  4. A No-contact or a No-action Policy?
    1. The Palestinian Election Conundrum
    2. The No-contact Policy: A Capital Taboo
    3. What Hamas Leaders Say
  5. De Jure vs. De Facto Annexation: Confronting the Two-State Solution’s Feasibility
    1. No to De Jure Annexation
    2. Trying to Compensate with Aid
    3. Dialling Back Europe’s Ambition
    4. Preserving the Illusion of a Status Quo
  6. An Alternative Path
  7. Conclusion
  8. Appendix A: Map of Israel/Palestine
Report 79 / Middle East & North Africa

Ruling Palestine II: The West Bank Model?

In June 2007, as Hamas took control of Gaza and a new government was formed in the West Bank, observers ventured two scenarios. The West Bank might become a model, whose economic revival and improved relations with Israel and the wider world contrasted with Gaza’s sorry fate; or, given continued occupation and the structural dysfunctionality of the Palestinian Authority (PA), it would see little progress. Both were wrong. Under Salam Fayyad’s competent leadership, it has made gains, particularly in law and order.

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