The Palestinian Authority has learned to imitate Our Congress!
May 7, 2006
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It took our government several hundred years to reach its current level of efficiency. It took Yassar Arafat and his followers only a few years. The PA governmental structure sounds a lot like ours! Maybe we could ask the international community to send us money
to keep ours afloat! The following article from Haaretz by Meron Benvenisti describes the PA governmental system we have funded since its inception. They also seem to be having some border problems. It seems someone is trying to build a wall to keep them from illegally entering their territory, and they hate it.
Where have I heard that befor
e? Sounds like a good idea to me!
Begin Haaretz Article
A Swollen, Bureaucratic Monster Is Managing Palestinian Affairs
By Meron Benvenisti
The PA has no less than 27 ministries.
Each m inistry has a m
inister and a deputy minister, and each has regional offices in addition to the main one. There are a total of 114 regional offices in the West Bank and Gaza. In addition, there are 14 district governors, each with his own offices.
The administrative structure is designed to create a large number of jobs and to hand out favors.
Rational considerations such as efficiency certainly did not determine that the Ministry of Education and Higher Education be separate from the Ministry of Culture and Art, as well as from the Ministry of Youth and Sport. Each one of these has several directors-general and separate district offices, of course.
Public relations are very popular in the PA: In addition to the Special Ministry of Information (which has a minister, deputy minister, advisers, five directors-general and five district offices), Chairman Abbas also has three informational divisions of his own: public relations, foreign information, and a department for the Arabic press and local media. Information technology merits two ministries.
In addition to the ministries are dozens of “agencies, institutions, authorities, and councils,” each one employing dozens of bureaucrats.
The security forces comprise ten different organizations, including the naval police. Within this bureaucratic apparatus, average salaries are about two-thirds higher than the national average.
(Ha’aretz)
End Haaretz Article
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