"The recent admittance of the Palestinian Authority to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) borders on the absurd.
The P.A. has no access to chemical-weapons technology and is not threatened by them. Nor did it ever condemn the Halabja chemical-weapons massacre of Iraqi Kurds by Saddam Hussein's regime in 1988 or the multiple chemical-weapons assaults on civilians by Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime during the Syrian Civil War. If anything, the P.A.'s admittance to the OPCW is another step in the Palestinian campaign to win recognition from international organizations that can then serve as additional fora through which to censure Israel. Next, it might attempt to be accepted as a member of international nuclear organizations and conventions...
The United States is reportedly considering cutting funding to the OPCW, as well as to several other U.N. agencies that the Palestinians have joined. An unnamed U.S. official told the AFP: 'It has been the consistent position of the United States that efforts by the Palestinians to join international organizations are premature and counterproductive.'...
The P.A.'s accession to the OPCW can thus only be explained as one more step in its campaign to win recognition from international organizations so as to use them as springboards for denigrating Israel..."