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Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch

Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, a former IDF Director of Military Prosecution for Judea and Samaria, is a leading expert on Palestinian incitement and legal strategies. He currently serves as head of legal strategies at Palestinian Media Watch and directs the Initiative for Palestinian Authority Accountability and Reform at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Hirsch has also advised Israel’s Ministry of Defense and chaired an advisory committee in the Ministry of Interior. A passionate advocate for Israel, he regularly provides expert analysis in the media to expose bias and misinformation.

The Palestinian Authority’s show of solidarity over Iranian attacks ignores Arafat’s alliance with Saddam and Kuwait’s mass expulsion of Palestinians.
The time has come for the Arab countries, UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority to stop using the Palestinian “refugees” as pawns in their scheme to destroy Israel.
The Palestinians complain of a financial crisis, but as with so many other complaints, this, too, is their own doing.
If the P.A. would only stop paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year to terrorists, it could nearly double its health budget.
So why are the country’s prime minister, defense minister and finance minister mitigating the law’s impact?
PLO declarations aside, the reality is that everyone—including the Palestinians themselves—knows it is a defunct institution that lacks any real legitimacy.
While I would like to believe that those who who serve in the body established in 1981 are good people, the entire mechanism is rotten to its core.
In the worldview of the Palestinian Authority leader, the creation of Israel was a catastrophe. For there to be peace, the Jewish state must submit to an invented Palestinian narrative and self-destruct.
Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of both the PLO and Fatah, is almost 86 and is in the 17th year of his first four-year term as PA chairman. When he goes, Fatah will be divided, and the continued role of the PLO will be unclear.