Discussion Committee:
Dr. Othman Mahmoud Othman/supervisor
Dr. Ahmad Mahmoud Abu-Dayeh/external examienr
Dr.Saqer Jabali/internal examiner
Supervisors:
Dr. Othman Mahmoud Othman/supervisor
Authors:
Abed Al-Qadir Ali Abed Al-Qadir Bane Odeh
Abstract:
This study aimed to clarify the Arab and Muslim support for the Palestinian Authority in the period between 2005 until 2013, through the identification of the type of aids in terms of conditions and the goals of each party from giving aids to the Palestinian, The problems and challenges faces the benefit of the aids properly.
It also aimed to identify the extent and the possibilities that the Arab and Muslim support in providing support to the Palestinian cause is a substitute for foreign and Western support.
Researcher used descriptive analytical approach to the interpretation of the role of the Arab and Islamic support to the Palestinian case in dispensing with foreign support, he used the theoretical sources of books and previous studies, journals, in addition to Websites, the researcher used figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Finance, and therefore any support outside the framework of the Palestinian Authority does not fall within this study.
The study found a range of results, as follows:
• The limitation of the Palestinian Authority resources, made the Arab and Islamic aids an important financial resource, to perform its different activities, especially in the case of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, thought the total of Arab aid was (24.92%) of all total the Palestinian Authority received in the period of the study between (2005-2013).
• The Palestinian Authority needed in the study period, between (2005-2013) for (26.619) billion dollars to pay its expenses, while local revenue (15.381) billion dollars, that inforced the Palestinian Authority in need for the foreign aids to recover all there needs in atotal of (11738.43) as foreign support. But as arab aids during this period was (2925.469) million dollars, and this confirms that the Arab support may partially contribute to strengthening the resilience of the Palestinians and their attachment to their land, and to help them in trying to build a Palestinian state through politically and economically empowered, from backgrounds and religious morals, historical and political principles, but it never leads to dispense for foreign support entirely.
• The Arab support influences by a range of factors, including the peace process and the desire to support in response to the Arab-American relations and the pressures of Washington. Add to affected aggression practiced by Israel against the Palestinian people and the authority, as it was directed at Arab support for the Palestinian leadership to remain within the axis of moderate Arab axis and enclosure the Palestinian opposition, particularly the Islamic movements. However, some support are reached to these Islamic movements from Qatar as ashape of donation and it as out of the Palestinian Authorites budget, offcourse that was appereant in the Israelis attack on Gaza in 2008 when Qatar made aconfrence to support Gaza and schems to rebuild the houses, which attended by the Syrian and Iranian presidents and the Hamas political leaders.
• This aid did not occur the real development required in Palestinian society most aspects of exchange focused for this aids on salaries, salaries and wages forms more than 60% of current expenditures, and not on the establishment of development projects that will help the Palestinian economy in the independence, growth and advancement away from the Israeli economy.
In conclusion, the researcher recommends the following:
• Ask Arab and Islamic countries to provide financial support for the Palestinian cause, to enable it to get rid from the conditioning international aid, and that can be done through reports from the Palestinian Authority shows its realable in expending.
• The Palestinian Authority should make new shared between it and the Arab and Islamic countries and ask them to invist in the Palestinian lands. Even more to strength the pressuer on the Israel side to release the economic and financial enclouser upon the Palestinian Authorities in case inprisonate the Palestinian taxes and customes.