The PA is looting from the people
I’m a teacher in Ramallah at a private school. Let me be blunt and tell you if you saw how the Palestinian Authority elite lives, it would make your blood boil.
The West Bank is suffocating. Workers who depended on jobs inside Israel are now out of work. Tax revenues are being withheld by Bezalel Smotrich. Families are barely holding on. And while people are in survival mode, the political class is living like royalty and they do so by stealing aid money. We’re not talking hundred of thousands of dollar. We’re talking billions that were meant for Palestinians. A whistleblower said Abbas funnels them into his own private account. I see them everyday. Luxury cars. Designer clothes. Mansions. It’s in your face, every day.
People here are being crushed from both sides. Occupation on one end, corruption on the other.
To the diaspora: you have more power than you think. Use it. Demand accountability. Stop normalizing this. There are countless talented, honest Palestinians ready to lead. What’s blocking them is a corrupt system clinging to power.
The current leadership, from Mahmoud Abbas to Hussein al-Sheikh, they have to go.