Will PA follow through with pledges to change agreements with Israel?
The Palestinian National Council recently took a series of decisions that Palestinian analysts say will affect relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In the final statement of its regular session, issued May 4, the Palestinian National Council (PNC) instructed the Executive Committee of the PLO to suspend recognition of Israel until the latter recognizes the State of Palestine along the borders of June 4, 1967, revokes the East Jerusalem annexation decision and stops its settlement activity.
While the PNC stressed that the relationship between the Palestinians and Israel is based on conflict, it called for the need to implement the decisions the PLO Central Committee took in its last two sessions of 2015 and 2018 in order to stop all forms of security coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), and put an end to Palestinian economic dependence on Israel, which has been entrenched by the Paris Protocol of 1994, all the while boycotting Israeli products.
