Word: authorityã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Sunday night council meetings, there’s no doubt about who’s in charge. Gusmorino, the council’s ninth president, rarely uses the gavel that is the only outward sign of his authority??€”but when he speaks, the room quiets...
...course, not all of these conditions can be blamed entirely on Israel. The imposition of blockades was due in part to the Palestinian Authority??€™s repeated failures to deliver on its commitments to contain belligerent Islamic elements. The fact that investors did not wish to become involved in the erection of hotels and industrial parks in Palestinian-controlled territory is partly attributable to the incredible level of corruption and lack of transparency in the PA’s administrative and bureaucratic systems...
...learn anything from the Sept. 11 attacks, it is the danger that governments run by extremists poses to the international community. A Palestinian government would surely be run by the body currently known as the Palestinian Authority??€”a group that not only continues to harbor terrorists of Hamas and Hizbollah, but runs a terrorist organization of its own called Fatah. America should do nothing in the way of seeing that a Palestinian state is formed until it is certain that the Palestinian terrorist organizations are handed over and brought to justice, and that extremist interests do not prevail...