“Is it possible for a huge bureaucratic apparatus to last while there is no local productive base to meet its enormous salaries and needs?

“Is it possible to achieve freedom without sovereignty?

“Is it possible to sustain democracy without independence?

“These are the main reservations against Oslo Accords (OA), and against the recent elections of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBG) for the Palestinian Self-Rule (SR), in spite of its technical success.

“What is really important is not the “wedding”, but whether the married couple will have any food after cutting the “wedding cake”.

“In this context, an economic analysis is beneficial, albeit it disagrees with those who try to minimize the role of the economic factor, which I still believe is the determinant factor in the final analysis.”

This is the preamble to an interesting analysis by the leftist Palestinian economist `Adel Samara. His article is attached herewith c(PDF).