The Israeli Procedures that hinder the implementation of Development Plans in the Palestinian Territories رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

This study aims at examining the implications of the Israeli procedures on the successive Palestinian development plans and the extent to which these plans respond to these procedures. The most important of these were the settlement in the C areas, and control over Jerusalem and Al Aghwar, and the crossings, the seizure of the Gaza Strip, the separation wall, the control of natural resources, the obstacles imposed on tourism, and finally the economic relations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides according to the Paris Economic Agreement. This study is based on the comprehensive analytical approach to address all of its several aspects and indicators, which will be analyzed and described according to the relationship of the indicators to each other. The study concluded many results, notably the lack of realism of Palestinian development plans, the inability to respond to the Israeli policies and their failure to deal with them, which led to the inability to plan comprehensively and impede the implementation of strategic projects. This study provided many recommendations to be taken into consideration when the preparation of future development plans is required. The most important of these recommendations is that the development plans should be realistic adopting budgets which are independent of the Palestinian Authority's one, allocating a reasonable budget for agriculture, dealing with settlement as a case of confrontation which is not a mentioned in planning, avoiding generalities, setting a plan in details for each sector through identifying VII budgets and time, promoting Gaza Strip in future development plans to miss the opportunity for occupation to separate the West Bank from Gaza, working on finding strategic projects encouraging Al Aghwar population to protect the land, giving Jerusalem a special priority to cut the road of the occupation in completing its Judaization and finally reconsidering the economic relations with Israel getting out of the threat phase to hard work.