The Palestinian Executive is based on field research in the West Bank and Gaza, which involved interviewing 110 executives from 63 publicly and family-owned companies. Using a cross-cultural and contextual approach, the authors examine the leadership styles of successful senior executives and managers living and working under challenging conditions in Palestine. The book: Explores the impact of culture, environmental pressures, and harsh circumstances on doing business in Palestine Sheds light on the leadership, interpersonal, and decision-making styles of successful Palestinian executives Provides specific recommendations on how to develop future business leaders. The Palestinian Executive is an indispensable book to many, among them: CEOs, business leaders, and HR professionals who are responsible for recruiting, motivating, and developing their current and future managers; aspiring young Palestinian students, supervisors, and managers; academic scholars as well as students of cross-cultural leadership; multicultural managers and expatriates who work with or for Palestinian organizations.
The Palestinian Executive: Leadership Under Challenging Conditions
The prospect of elections, while unlikely to take place under current conditions, remains a valid scenario even though both Fatah and Hamas have substantial reservations about holding them (despite their public rhetoric to the contrary). Fatah lacks cohesive organisational capacity beyond its senior echelons, and would be likely to dissolve into multiple candidate lists in competition with one another rather than enter the legislative elections with a single, unified list. Fatah has also lost some of its grassroots support among the young and in the refugee camps, with centralisation and consolidation of power at the top, over the past decade, alienating popular elements within the movement who would be capable of generating support among the rank-and-file.
The European donors are understandably frustrated by the dysfunctional state of Palestinian politics, the corruption within PA institutions, the erosion of the rule of law, and the divide between the West Bank and Gaza. Turning away from the problem, however, will only make matters worse over time. The Europeans should use their substantial influence, including over the provision of financial contributions, to support the process of political reform and enable the emergence of a political leadership capable and willing to move forward on the diplomatic front.
DR. RICE: Clearly, this is a difficult process and it's going to be a long process and there will be bumps in the road, we understand that. But we got a very important start under new conditions today. And the new conditions include, of course, the end of the war in Iraq, but also the appointment of Prime Minister Abbas, who is the first Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority. He was here today, he was representing the Palestinian people. He had a great delegation with him of people who are committed to creating democratic institutions in the Palestinian Authority, in fighting terrorism, in having institutions that are accountable and transparent.
Now, no one should doubt the difficult times ahead, the difficult issues ahead, the fact that there will be bumps in the road. But all of that said, this is a time for optimism and the Arab leaders who were here today expressed their optimism, expressed their support for the Palestinian Authority under the leadership of Prime Minister Abbas.
The role of the Palestinian leadership in this regard is important because the pursuit of justice and accountability should be the basis for the realization of Palestinian rights, and it should not be a condition, or it should not be hijacked, certainly, for political reasons. So, there is an important role here to play in terms of pursuing the ICC to its fullest extent as an avenue for justice for Palestinians, and not allowing politics to undermine that pursuit of justice, as we may have seen in the past.
I do want to say one thing specifically about the denial of the right of return, because it's been questioned whether the ICC can genuinely look into this question. And I think here, it's important to remember that, several years ago, in September, 2018, the same Pre-Trial Chamber I, as in the situation in Palestine now, recognized in the case of Bangladesh/ Myanmar, that the denial of the rate of return of the Rohingya people may constitute a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute. And it specifically cited the right to enter one's country under international human rights law and under the 1973 Apartheid Convention, and it highlighted specifically that the anguish of persons uprooted from their homes and forced to leave their countries deepened, and this renders the victim's future even more uncertain and compels them to continue living in deplorable conditions.
There is no part of the world that we are not interested in. We are a country of countries. We are touched by every country, and we touch every country. And we have a values-based foreign policy that rests on principle, and it is principle that is founded in our value system of democracy, the free enterprise system, the individual rights of men and women. We seek no enemies; we seek only friends. But we will confront our enemies, and we will do it under what I believe is the solid, dedicated, persistent leadership of the man who heads the foreign policy of the United States, President George W. Bush. 2ff7e9595c
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