Sadly, we have now entered 2022 with a Palestinian Authority (PA) devoid of any political horizon, or any horizon for ending the Israeli occupation, institutional work or financial improvement. We’ve a PA with a management that has no imaginative and prescient or volition, or in brief, a PA and not using a future.
The assembly between PA President Mahmoud ‘Abbas and Israel’s Defence Minister Benny Gantz at Gantz’ house close to Tel Aviv on the night of twenty eighth of December, was a obvious indication of the failure and impotence of the PA because it bids farewell to 2021. Whereas the assembly misplaced a lot of its worth (if it had any to start with) by having no official capability, it additionally confirmed the operational operate of the PA, accountable for solely managing the day by day life necessities, whereas its nature as an inclusive nationwide Palestinian entity is shrunk and erased. At a time when Israeli settlement, Judaization, and aggression on holy websites and al-Aqsa Mosque are being escalated, and Palestinian villages are coming below common assault by Zionist settlers, ‘Abbas travelled to reassure Gantz that the PA is decided to proceed safety collaboration with Israel that stops the eruption of resistance in opposition to the occupation. In the meantime, any speak about reviving the peace course of is nearer to absurd video games that don’t respect the minds of the Palestinian individuals and the Arab and Muslim Ummah (nation).
The PA (or virtually talking the management of Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Group (PLO)) go into 2022 and not using a political horizon, whether or not within the home Palestinian framework, or the framework of the Palestinian nationwide venture and its main pathways. In 2021, the PA and PLO management misplaced no matter credibility they might have had, after blocking the trail of Palestinian nationwide reconciliation and elections as a prelude to rearranging the Palestinian house entrance; starting with blocking the legislative elections, which led to the obstruction of PA presidential elections and Palestinian Nationwide Council (PNC) elections. The Palestinians not see this management as certified to handle the difficulty of reconciliation. There may be now no alternative however to hunt a transitional management or one other entity that has the belief of the Palestinian individuals.
Furthermore, the PA has sought, by the identical measure that it misplaced credibility amongst Palestinians, to show its credibility to Israel and america. It thus continued safety coordination with Israel on the highest ranges, and “swallowed” Israel’s cuts to the allocations to the households of Palestinian martyrs and prisoners from the taxes it collects on the PA’s behalf. The PA sought to impose its “status” by itself individuals within the West Financial institution (WB) by suppressing pro-resistance protests, political dissent and standard demonstrations. This culminated with the killing of political and human rights activist Nizar Banat. The PA ended 2021 with an act of strife brought on by its affiliated “Nationwide Safety” company in Lebanon, when its members attacked the funeral of a Hamas member, killing three and wounding scores, in an immoral precedent in Palestinian historical past.
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This Authority and its management has misplaced route and its motive for existence, after the peace course of reached a useless finish and the two-state resolution collapsed. Israel succeeded in “managing” the peace course of lengthy sufficient with out end result, to double Judaization and settlement actions in Jerusalem and WB; and in turning the PA into an operational instrument that protects its again by repressing its individuals, doing its soiled work on its behalf and whitewashing its colonialism at a “5 star” stage of service as Israeli leaders say. Israel benefited from the PA as political cowl and as a method to get hold of political recognition from world states, together with normalizing relations with Arab and Muslim nations. As a consequence, Israel achieved higher stability and financial development, whereas sequestering and encircling the Palestine concern, in preparation for liquidating it on Israel’s phrases. Steadily, Israel has been imposing its imaginative and prescient on the bottom, transfiguring the two-state resolution into “creeping annexation” and “creeping disengagement,” pursing its theories of higher territorial enlargement and smaller Palestinian inhabitants, managed by its brokers and surrogates.
On the identical time, the PA management tries to outsmart the resistance factions, imposing on them the situation of abiding by “worldwide legitimacy,” as if that is the one path to salvation and to having a Palestinian statehood in WB and Gaza Strip (GS), when itself has failed over three a long time to leverage this “legitimacy” and its devices to realize this purpose. Notably, the PA appears to be unable to evaluate the “qualitative weight” of the engines of change and affect within the nationwide venture for liberation. Thus, it assigns higher significance to diplomatic stunts and appeasing the US and even Israel, whereas dismally failing to take care of its individuals and leverage its big potentials in Palestine and the Diaspora. Likewise, the PA has ignored any effort to rearrange the Palestinian house entrance on real and consultant bases, the capabilities and potentials of resistance factions, and the independents and varied gifted and competent Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims. Above all, the PA has preoccupied itself with sustaining the dominance of 1 explicit faction (i.e., Fatah) over all Palestinian affairs, whereas excluding and marginalising others.
Consequently, this management that’s devoid of any political horizon, is decided to proceed “tilting at windmills.” It has no recipe to deal with the failure of the peace course of besides to run quicker after its mirage. It has no resolution to rearrange the Palestinian house entrance besides by means of additional domination of 1 explicit faction. The PA has no horizon for battle and liberation, and no horizon to construct official potential establishments that accommodate the Palestinian individuals, its elements and its potentials below one umbrella.
Even within the financial sphere, the PA has no imaginative and prescient or actual program to leverage the abilities, expertise, potentials and capital of Palestinians at house and within the Diaspora. It has no capacity to enlist and mobilize these belongings in a nationwide venture for liberation.
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On the stage of its personal buildings, there’s systematic monetary and administrative corruption within the PA, which is rife with faux employment, and employment primarily based on loyalty, with positions crammed basically by Fatah members and partisans, and the place these affiliated to resistance actions are excluded irrespective of their advantage or competence, by means of a “patrimonial clientelist” system. As an alternative of getting ready an financial setting appropriate for the liberation from the occupation and for the event of a “resistance financial system,” the PA entered into the catastrophic Paris Protocol. As a consequence, the Palestinian financial system in WB and GS turned hostage to the occupation and its devices, whereas on the identical time, it pursued a shopper mannequin as if we’re within the post-liberation section.
As such, we have now a PA and management and not using a imaginative and prescient for liberation or a will for change, or options to the pathways which have confirmed their failure. But the largest catastrophe is that this management is decided to press forward and repeat the identical insurance policies over and over, whereas agreeing to stay hostage to the “good will” of others, even when they’re foes or enemies. Worse nonetheless, the PA management refuses to step down, or not less than step apart and provides room for a severe and clear course of to rearrange the Palestinian house entrance. As an alternative, the PA is content material with its continued position within the subjugation and repression of the Palestinian individuals and its resistance forces.
This management has change into a burden on the Palestinian individuals. Whether or not it likes it or not, it has led to extra beneficial circumstances for the Israeli venture. It’s not potential to proceed managing the battle in opposition to a worldwide Zionist venture, and its devices of affect and main networks of pursuits, by means of leaders that lack the naked minimal necessities to guide a worldwide main trigger such because the Palestine concern. Subsequently, the Palestinian individuals can have their say, ultimately, and take cost and management.
SOURCE: Alzaytouna.net
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