Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and Finance Minister Shukri Bishara met with World Bank senior directors this week in Ramallah, urging that pressure should be placed on Israel to release the tax revenues that the occupation state is withholding. The PA’s financial crisis, despite diplomatic efforts by the US to ease the strain, is taking its toll on the leadership and rendering it even more subject to foreign aid. The PA’s official news agency Wafa reported Shtayyeh as praising the World Bank’s intervention in terms of reducing unemployment, as well as in administrative and financial reform. It also insisted that “improving economic and living conditions requires a political horizon and solution to make them more effective.” No mention was … Continue reading PA appeals to the international community are only for its own survival