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The Trump Administration’s decision to cut aid to the Palestinians and cease USAID operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) must serve as a wake-up call for Palestinian policymakers to lay the Oslo Accords aid model to rest. Neither this model nor the masses of aid funds that have poured into Palestine.
 Economics
Funds from Western donors have comprised the majority of the more than $36.2 billion in development assistance spent on the Palestinian economy from 1993 to 2017. This spending, done in support of the Oslo peace process under US political leadership and World Bank technical guidance, has largely been disbursed for Palestinian institution building and economic growth, as well as for humanitarian assistance.
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Jeremy Wildeman· Jun 19, 2019
 Politics
A quarter of a century since the signing of the Oslo Accords, an independent and sovereign Palestinian state has become little more than a myth as Israel continues to expand its settler colonial project and military occupation. Oslo’s structure and framework are to blame for this reality, as the Accords were not a peace agreement but a security arrangement between colonizer and colonized.
 Economics
Since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Declaration of Principles, the donor community has invested more than $23 billion into “peace and development” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), making it one of the highest per capita recipients of non-military aid in the world.
 Economics
The World Bank’s growth report on the Occupied Palestinian Territories concludes – unsurprisingly – that growth is unsustainable because it is aid-driven, and yet it recommends private sector-led growth as a way forward. Can such growth or indeed any form of sustainable development really take place under the conditions of prolonged occupation, colonization, and dispossession?

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Regional normalisation efforts will not succeed until Israel ends its ‘displace and replace’ policies against Palestinians.

More money can lead to more harm when spent improperly; technical solutions will fall short if they avoid challenging central political realities of the conflict
American assistance has always been problematic for the Palestinians, because it was designed around the close US-Israel relationship.

US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.

A fascinating look at the aid industry in the occupied Palestinian territories that Al-Shabaka Program Director Alaa Adel Tartir and guest author Jeremy Wildeman published in the Journal of Mediterranean Politics. Tartir and Wildeman cite and draw upon their Al-Shabaka policy brief “Can Oslo’s Failed Aid Model Be Laid to Rest?”

The second installment of a two-part policy brief from Al-Shabaka. The first part can be found here. The Oslo Accords not only left the Palestinian people much worse off politically; they also devastated the economy of those living under Israeli occupation despite the $23 billion-plus that donors have poured into the territory. What’s worse, Al-Shabaka Guest Author Jeremy Wildeman and Program Director Alaa Tartir found no signs of a change in donor policies in their recent study. The Oslo aid model may be here to stay unless Palestinians forcefully demand change.

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