From Ali Abunimah--Dissolve the Palestinian Authority (Dr. Eyad El Sarraj)

Tweet 29 June 2006

The short statement below issued by Dr. Eyad El Sarraj,
under siege in the occupied Gaza Strip, calls for the
immediate dissolution of the Palestinian Authority. Who
can deny that the notion of a Palestinian "government" is
an utter fiction when Israel's storm troopers kidnapped a
third of the cabinet, dozens of lawmakers and other
officials throughout the occupied West Bank overnight and
is now holding them hostage? The "international community"
sits by silent and inactive as the crimes of the Israeli
apartheid state escalate. The grassroots campaigns for
boycott, divestment and sanctions to isolate it must be
urgently escalated.

Statement:

Check Mate

Israel has crossed the line many times. By destroying the
infrastructure again and again of the Palestinian
Authority, by arresting ministers and Members of
Parliament, and by preventing Mahmoud Abbas President of
the Palestinian Authority from leaving Gaza, she unveils the
true nature of its relation with the Palestinian
Authority. It was the one thousand error of Arafat not
dissolve the Palestinian Authority when he was under
siege. The poor man thought that being a President would
have given him protection. Abu Mazen should now dissolve
the Palestinian Authority before he meets the same fate.
He is checked mated. The UN should come in or Israel
assumes the power and responsibilities of the occupation
without hiding behind the stigmatized Palestinian
Authority or the Infamous Oslo agreement.

Eyad El Sarraj