US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to the West Bank on Sunday to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Blinken said that the PA would play a “key role” in the day after the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Dr. Harel Chorev, an expert on Palestinian affairs and senior researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University, said the role of the PA in the Gaza Strip would not come soon since the Palestinian Authority itself needed to undergo fundamental reforms in their education system and funding of terrorists. In any case, he told reporter Arieh O’Sullivan, for now the Palestinian Authority wants Israel to destroy Hamas. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/pool via AP)