The Palestinian Refusal to Attend the Bahrain Conference Demonstrates a Lack of Interest in Statehood
Seeing past the excuses for the latest rejection.
June 25, 2019
The Palestinian Refusal to Attend the Bahrain Conference Demonstrates a Lack of Interest in Statehood
Seeing past the excuses for the latest rejection.
Today, Middle Eastern leaders meet in Manama for a U.S.-backed conference on the economic reconstruction of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. On the table is a detailed $50-billion proposal for the amelioration of the Palestinian economy. Yet the response of the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has been to boycott the conference altogether. Evelyn Gordon examines the perverse reasoning behind this decision, and the even more perverse reasoning of its defenders:
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