As Israel celebrates its 59th birthday, the Palestinians are having a tough time managing and bring under control a run away ministry

No one can deny, least not me that the Jews and their leadership did a much better job at finding and establishing the state of Israel than the Palestinians and their leadership was able to deal with the catastrophic result of the creation of Israel and its aftermath on the Palestinian people.
It is true that the world Jewish community pulled together and was able to get the best and brightest and enlist them in the service of a Zionist cause that succeeded in the creation of Israel and with the subsequent expulsion of more that 700,000 Palestinians. The world Jewish community by hooks and by crooks was able to enlist the support of key leaders and key states and enlist them, together with their world wide economic and financial resources and with a well armed militia and terrorist organizations was able to win their war of independence over a people that for the most part did not know what was going on and for the most part led by a most incompetent and intellectual inept leadership of the time. Yes, the Jews succeeded because they knew what they were doing and succeeded because they have accountable leadership and we failed because we did not have the kind of leadership that was a match for the Zionist leadership at the time. Yes the Jews were damn good at what they were doing and they succeeded while the Palestinians failed.
59 years later and the Palestinian people and the leaderships are not much better than they were in 1948. While Israel is celebrating a garrison state with perhaps the most ruthless army in the world, it was also able to become an economic power house attracting some $14 billions in foreign investment last year while it waging its most criminal war against the people of Lebanon, and with some of the best and well known corporations leading the world in science and technology. The Palestinians are having a tough time managing and bringing under control a runaway ministry full of lose guns and with so many ambitious small time thugs masquerading as colonels and generals, as if they have won the Battle of the Al-Alamain.
One could not help but compare Ben-Gurion with Arafat. While Ben-Gurion made sure he attracted the best of Jews and gentiles to support his drive for the establishment of the state insuring not only its survival but that it thrives as well, No one cold deny that many committed and talented Palestinians joined the cause for liberation, Arafat attracted for the most part not the best and brightest, but the mediocre where loyalty counted for every thing. This policy of Arafat continued even after Oslo where many of those parasites returned with him to run a mini-state for the occupation, and they have shown they are as inept at running the state as they did in Beirut and Tunis for over 40 years. While Ben-Gurion made sure he has a state operating like a state within one minute from his declaration of independence, Arafat and his PLO had 40 years to prepare for such a day when they can run an independent state and they have proven they were ill prepared not only to run a state but were and are ill prepared to even manage a department. While Ben-Gurion made sure he attracted the best brains to serve Israel, Arafat and the PLO made sure that only those who were out to rob and fleece were invited to join a fledging Palestinian Authority that is till today riddled with corruption and incompetence.
With hundreds of thousands of talented Palestinians in all fields, we did not see mass migration back home join and build a nation. All leaderships and key position in the new authority was given to loyalist whose only qualification they kissed his ass ad feet and said yes to his every wish and ever challenge his many wrong policies and ill advised missteps. The same remain true now as it was in the days of Arafat.
One has to raise even more questions as to why after all these 59 years the Palestinians are not closer to freedom and independence, with the priorities on finding funds to run inefficient and badly managed departments and with no priorities on ending the occupation.
In over 40 years of PLO leadership we did not see much improvement in education or health care let alone preparedness for that day when we will sit down with the Israelis and seek a final settlement. Non of our organizations and institutions have the tools nor the talent to address all of the issues of exiles, properties, wrongful use of stolen properties, war crimes and restitutions for the more than 750,000 where were jailed by Israel at one time or the other. After 40 years we do not see a vision for that future state that may come one day. After 40 years and with hundreds of thousands dead and with more than $ 30 years of funding over the years, there is no support for a total accounting for all that happened in the last 40 years and there is no calls for bringing the leadership past and present to account for its actions and failures and also for the billions of missing funds.Perhaps as a first step to redeem ourselves as people we need to clear out act and we need to put the interest of the nation and people above the interests of every one. We need to make sure that the Diaspora people are involved in all decisions and to make sure that the Diaspora Palestinians not only well represented at the table supported by the best and brightest ( Palestine Agency/Palestine Documentation Center), and that all Palestinians share in the formulation of a vision for the new state, if and when it comes, rather than rely on a leadership that after 9 years of trying is unable to reform one single ministry with over some 70,000 undisciplined gun carrying militia without loyalty to the nation and the cause but loyalties to a bunch of thugs and mafia like bosses. The Palestinians of today are perhaps in much worse position than they were some 59 years ago. Too bad for all of the millions with so many talents and life time commitments that the present leadership is unable to go out of its parasite infested circles and see the support and active input of all Palestinians at home and abroad. May Alla/God help us, we need all the help we can.