Khaled Abu Toameh: The Palestinian Authority Is Part of the Problem

Veteran Middle East journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA), examines the future of Palestinian leadership and argues that meaningful change cannot come without confronting the failures of both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Drawing on more than four decades of reporting on Palestinian affairs, Abu Toameh explains why repeated efforts to reform the Palestinian Authority have failed, why the current leadership continues to fuel anti-Israel narratives, and why a fundamental reassessment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is needed. He discusses the post-October 7 reality, the challenges facing Palestinian society, and the obstacles to any future peace process.