The US withdrawal could collapse the Palestinian authority

Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the state of Palestine and is not on sale for gold or billions”, said a spokesman for Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, just hours after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority The potential repercussions on the Palestinian Authority would be a serious economic damage, given that the partnership commitments made by Arab neighbors and foreign donors are mostly in favor of direct funding to organizations rather than through Palestinian Authority in order to evade possible corruption, could mean a financial meltdown. Doctor Yossi Beilin, a former Israeli minister and one of the initiators of the Oslo peace process, believes that neither the US nor the Palestinian Authority have made decisions definitive on a particular line of action, but if the threats were implemented this would probably involve l dissolution of the Palestinian Authority leaving more freedom for action to Hamas, which could accelerate the pace of its designs on the dominance of the West Bank in addition to its dominance over the Gaza Strip.