When The UN Recognizes A Palestinian State, Will It Also Decide On Its Allowance?

Palestinian financial institutions are ready for statehood, an International Monetary Fund report praising Palestinian fiscal reform said Tuesday.

"The PA is now able to conduct the sound economic policies expected of a future well-functioning Palestinian state,'' the report said.
Ma'an News Agency, IMF: Palestinian institutions ready for state, April 8, 2011

In it's rush to see a Palestinian state declared as soon as possible, regardless of the consequences, the IMF is merely rubber-stamping Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad's ridiculous claims:

Palestinian Authority Prime Minster Salam Fayyad said on Tuesday he is confident his government will have the institutional framework in place by the end of the summer necessary to win global support for an independent Palestinian state.


“It is our goal and our expectation that as a result of what we are doing – getting ready for statehood, developing institutions that delivery services competently and (developing) core values – that our state of Palestine will be founded,” Fayyad said. “I am very happy to tell you that in many areas of governance we are already there.”

With all this absurd exaggeration of the ability of the Palestinian Authority to actually cobble together the makings of a real self-sustaining state--the New York Times article on the incompetence of the Palestinian Authority came as a breath of fresh air

Palestinian Authority Can’t Pay Full Salaries

The Palestinian Authority will pay its employees only half their monthly salaries in July, the prime minister told reporters here on Sunday, because of what he said was “the failure of donors, including our Arab brothers, to fulfill their pledges.”

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad added that the salaries would be paid in full when the promised funds arrived.

Since, as Fayyad dutifully points out, the Palestinian Authority cannot possibly fulfill its obligations without massive amounts of foreign aid, one really has to wonder what "the sound economic policies expected of a future well-functioning Palestinian state" the IMF was talking about.

Is the West in general, and the UN in particular, so eager to create a second Palestinian State that it is willing to foist a corrupt, incompetent Muslim state on the Middle East?

Granted, it will not be the first--or only--corrupt regime in the Middle East.

In fact, that is exactly what Fayyad, alleged economic genius and darling of the West, said:

Mr. Fayyad, who has spearheaded a program to build institutions for a state, said that the current financial crisis had no bearing on the Palestinians’ readiness for independence.

“We are not the only government that needs assistance in order to run its affairs,” he said.

Of course, Fayyad is conveniently ignoring the fact that the difference between a Palestinian state and the rest of the Middle East is that those other countries already exist.

Why in the world should there be a rush to actually create a Middle East state that will doing nothing to help the Middle East? How in the world is forcing such a bankrupt and incompetent state on the rest of the world supposed to lend any sort of stability to the Middle East?

That is, after all, one of the major excuses for going through this exercise, isn't it?

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