![]() It has failed entirely to fulfil its functions. While I would like to believe that those who who serve in the Civil Administration are good people, the entire mechanism is rotten to its core. for paying rewards to terrorists who murder Jews are just three of the countless systematic failures of the Civil Administration. While the 2020 “loan” never came to fruition, two months ago, the Civil Administration repeated the same failed recommendation.Įmploying Palestinians in strategically sensitive positions, allowing the Palestinians to steal land and trying to prevent the passage of a law to punish the P.A. with a “loan” equivalent of the sums deducted. Having failed to prevent the passage of the law, and while its financial predictions had proven to be false, the Civil Administration, through persistent moaning, in April 2020, persuaded then-Defense Minister Naftali Bennett to promote the idea of circumventing the law by Israel’s providing the P.A. has been penalized with the deduction of more than 1.25 billion shekels ($390 million). Thankfully, the MKs ignored the empty warnings of the Civil Administration and enacted the law. Defending the P.A., the Civil Administration repeatedly falsely claimed that implementation of the law would cause the financial collapse of the P.A. by deducting the sum it spent the previous year on its terror payments from the tax incomes of the following year.ĭespite the clear logic and morality of the law, the Civil Administration did its best to torpedo it. The Dichter-Stern law stipulates that every year, Israel will punish the P.A. then used the money it received from Israel to bankroll its terror-funding policy. for its “pay for slay” policy, the Civil Administration was the first to come to the P.A.’s defense.Īs part of the Oslo Accords, Israel agreed to waive, in favor of the P.A., billions of shekels of tax income. Indeed, when MK’s Avi Dichter and Elazar Stern proposed legislation to punish the P.A. Congress, European governments and the Knesset, the world would still not know about it, due to the silence of the Civil Administration. terror rewards in 2011, and presented what it uncovered to the U.S. Had Palestinian Media Watch not exposed these P.A. The Civil Administration completely missed this or decided to look the other way. In 2004, it even entrenched the policy in law. has paid huge rewards to Palestinian terrorists. The failure is so catastrophic that is has caused genuine strategic damage to the State of Israel and the Jewish people. policy, the Civil Administration failed completely in its task to prevent the open land theft. Some of these structures were built in cooperation with, or even entirely funded by, the European Union. Over time, however, the Civil Administration lost its way.Īccording to the Israeli NGO Regavim, since the implementation of the Oslo Accords, the Palestinians have built tens of thousands of illegal structures in Area C. and Area C, which, under the Accords, remained under full Israeli authority. In the new reality, the powers and responsibilities of the Civil Administration were limited to being the intermediary between Israel and the P.A. That changed dramatically in 1995, when, pursuant to the Oslo Accords, almost all the functions of the Civil Administration were transferred to the newly established P.A. ![]() Originally, the Civil Administration was a large body with extensive powers and responsibilities. The Civil Administration was established in 1981 by then-Defense Minister Ariel Sharon to be the civilian arm of the Israeli government in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. This obvious danger apparently did not bother the Civil Administration. and its unscrupulous security forces, then the path to disaster is clear. has direct access to information desperately desired by the P.A. However, when a Palestinian who lives with his family in an area controlled by the P.A. There are literally thousands of Palestinians who risk their lives daily for the security of the Jewish people. I am not suggesting that a Palestinian, inherently, cannot be trusted. Under these circumstances, a Palestinian with access to sensitive land transactions is courting danger. leader Mahmoud Abbas considers this such a serious crime that he amended the legislation in 2014, raising the maximum sentence to life imprisonment with hard labor. law, a Palestinian who sells land to a Jew is committing a severe crime. ![]() It’s a reality in which Palestinians own land that they cannot use and are looking to sell, and in which Jews are willing to pay exorbitant prices for land in Judea and Samaria. The problem is that Israel does not live in a normal reality.
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