Israel and the Palestinian Authority are both the objects of largesse in the form of aid, though the vibrant Israeli economy would seem to indicate that there isn’t really a great deal of need (I suspect most of it goes down the armaments rabbit hole). Nonetheless, they get a significantly greater amount than their Palestinian friends, those who live is displaced poverty and whose resettlement areas continue to be gnawed away by Israeli settlements (fair dealing: those rockets that get lobbed at Ashkelon and Tel Aviv must eat up some of the funds, or constitute another form of aid from friendly states). But it seems the height of Catch-22 absurdity to funnel aid to Palestinians through the Israeli government where they can just cut off the flow of funds as they threaten to do in the wake of the UN acceptance of Palestine as a non-member observer. The Israeli and Palestinian friends seem to be going through a bit of a rough patch, and this arrangement would be like funnelling my allowance through my elder brother’s account, even as we might be coming to blows over the amount of space allotted to each of us in a shared bedroom. It says loudly and clearly that the donor states/organizations regard the Palestinian cause as immature and unworthy of control of its own resources, unless, of course, the Israelis are holding these donor states/organizations hostage in some way. Yossarian would be proud of these folks.