The End for the Pal. Authority? He Said It

I noted here that the Pals. were beginning to threaten mass violence, again.

George Giacaman teaches at Bir Zeit University and he has an article in Lebanon's Daily Star, entitled: The end for the Palestinian Authority?

Excerpts from his thinking:

As usual, the future Israeli government will be a coalition...this does not bode well for the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is entering the third stage of its turbulent life, and perhaps its last.

The first stage began with the Gaza-Jericho agreement of 1994...The second stage ushered in Mahmoud Abbas, with his election as president of the PA in January 2005...

...The PA knows it cannot pin any hopes on the new Israeli coalition government.

In a year or possibly two, much will be clear. If there is no credible progress leading to the two-state solution as Palestinians and Arabs understand it; if the expansion of settlements is not stopped, making a two-state solution nearly impossible, then the PA will be doomed...There is no reason to expect anything different from the forthcoming Israeli government, whoever forms it and participates in it.

If the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is allowed to remain inside the dark tunnel of internecine Israeli politics, it will never emerge without outside pressure and no solution will be possible. Palestinians will have no choice other than to pursue resistance, and the PA will face its final demise in this last stage of its career....