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Saturday 5 April 2014 - 09:15

Towards an urgent initiative to save the Palestinian People

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Towards an urgent initiative to save the Palestinian People
This also came several days after the Government of Israel approved the establishment of the largest settlement project in the West Bank, including Jerusalem. 
 
These Israeli steps shortly come after Washington’s recent meetings, which aimed at pushing the process of negotiations forward before the end of their allocated time, and this is considered a clear declaration of the failure of the negotiating process, as expected, since its inception until now. Therefore, there isn’t in fact anything left to push Israel to make concessions in its relationship with the Palestinians after the Palestinian leadership has lost most of its power papers in the face of Israel. Also, President Abbass’ bet has failed once again, for he was unable to gain a U.S. position that could pressure Israel to make concessions even if just in form without affecting the essence of the main issues and the stability of the Israeli position so as to save face and to buy more time under the title of extending the negotiations. 

The political Palestinian stalemate here does not resemble at all the dilemma of the failed Camp David negotiations in 2000, since so many variables took place in the world affecting the status of the Palestinian cause, and the Palestinian people were plagued due to the continuous division in the era of the Palestinian president that was specialized in creating internal crises and dissipating the power of the Palestinians. He was not having popular enhances that could strengthen his position and options if he has options other than the option of negotiating against the will of the majority of the Palestinian people. The period of the negotiations at Camp David in 2000 is different in terms of the circumstance, form and content, just as is the big difference between President Mahmoud Abbass and leader Yasser Arafat. 

There is no longer any doubt that the Israeli arrogance and the political bankruptcy of President Abbass will fold a bitter era that would be added to the experience of 20 years of negotiations, through which Israel benefited to the maximum in confiscating the land and turning the West Bank into populated ghettos behind a wall of apartheid. This came after it plunged the West Bank in settlement-oriented islands and military checkpoints and painted a reality that wasted the dream of a two-state solution and opened the door to new scenarios, which would take the Palestinian people to unidentified destination. 

The Palestinian scene is catastrophic and is open to all possibilities in light of the inability of the President and the pillars of his leadership to provide any new earns through time that could ensure his survival as president of the Palestinian people, after he demolished all the firewalls that are putative by any president in any place, but the Palestinian people will not remain silent for long on this comedy called the authority, the negotiations, the suppressive devices, and the long march of confiscating the people’s rights and abusing them shamefully, just as is the case with any repressive regime in the world. 

In fact, the events and demonstrations that happened in several Palestinian areas give a clear indication on the size of the Palestinian popular tension and discontent against the practices of the President and the authority in its two branches in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and pave the way for an expected popular storm that will bring all the elements of the Palestinian political regime down after the dangerous susceptibility of this regime and its role in creating the political, social, and economic crisis and after working against the national rights of the Palestinian people. 

Objectively, things will definitely explode, since everyone realized that the Palestinian Authority has become an obstacle in the face of the project of national liberation after it turned the confrontation with Israel into an internal one that dug tragedy in the consciousness of all the Palestinians and accumulated burdens on the Palestinian community, not to mention what the occupation carries out of oppressive practices and commits of murder and siege daily. In fact, there is a sense of collective danger threatening the future of every Palestinian person, and would push him/her to defend the future in order to restore his/her dignity and the rights that were wasted over the previous years. 

The national and political elites despite their incapability and powerlessness can formulate an initiative of national salvation that could save the Palestinians from the dangers of the approaching explosion, a comprehensive initiative that could be based on stopping the negotiations, rejecting the extension, and resorting to the Palestinian people to conduct legislative and presidential elections to give them the ability to choose freely their representative that could lead the coming stages. Such elections that could bring consideration back to the Palestinian people and their national cause in a creative way that could rebuild what have been ruined during the stage of sham. 

Staying at the stage of shock, anticipation, and surrender in front of what is happening is very dangerous in the Palestinian case, and the risk here is not limited to the internal Palestinian affairs and to what the Palestinian people would suffer of the losses resulting from the approaching explosion. What is more dangerous is the ability of Israel to take advantage of the explosion of the internal situation to perpetuate its settlement-oriented occupation in a way that disrupts the issue of liberation for years and perhaps for decades. 

Complying with the policies of President Abbass under the state of deficit, susceptibility, and confusion experienced by him is unjustified nationally and all those who remain silent on this are as if secretly participating in. The Palestinian situation no longer tolerates the policy of having positions only, but also needs the policy of taking an initiative towards a collective survival that could preserve the people of Palestine, their ethics and objectives, and put them on the path of real confrontation with the occupation away from all the worthless things that kept them busy during the era of President Abbass.
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