By Xinhua,
Ramallah : A Palestinian academic on Saturday called on the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to dissolve itself if no peace treaty was made with Israel by the end of this year.
Sari Nusibeh, the president of al-Quds University, said he “finds no sense for keeping the Authority which accumulates the debts and its role was only to hide the loins of the peace process.”
Nusibeh gave an example that the PNA pays monthly salaries for 160,000 employees, “half of them were security personnel who don’t provide any security for us…”
According to the international law, Israel will “finance its occupation as what happened during the military rule,” Nusibeh said, referring to the pre-Oslo era before the PNA was created.
“This will be better than spending billions of dollars every year,” he added.
The U.S. mediated to resume peace talks between Israel and the PNA last November, but the talks, which are designated to reach a deal enabling the creation of a Palestinian statehood, make no progress due to the Israeli measures on the ground.
Three years ago, Nusibeh and Israeli chief of Labor Party launched an initiative for creating a Palestinian statehood alongside Israel, dropping the Palestinian refugees’ right of return.
Nusibeh was afraid that one binational statehood might be “a more closer and appropriate solution.”