Would the Israeli occupation enable us, Palestinians, to stay underneath its fold, bleed our sweat and vitality in its factories and supply it with the safety providers that it craves, in order that it throws us a loaf of bread, whereas we reward it day and night time?
I don’t assume so. The Israeli occupation won’t settle for the mere presence of a Palestinian folks on this land as, because the first Zionist invader set foot on the land of Palestine, they’ve been repeating the phrases of the previous British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, “A land with no folks for a folks with no land.” That is greatest evidenced by the Oslo Accords, which recognised Israel’s proper to most of Palestine and demanded that the Palestinian folks lay down their arms and co-exist with the occupiers for a interval of 4 transitional years, after which they’d enable the institution of a Palestinian state.
Did the Israelis settle for the equation of Palestinians residing underneath the shadow of occupation?
No, the Israelis didn’t settle for this equation however, as a substitute, had been eager to take advantage of the Oslo Accords in favour of settlement growth and the restriction of residing circumstances for the Palestinians. Subsequently, the primary confrontations erupted in Hebron, then in Jabal Abu Ghneim in 1998, when settlers seized the strategic mountain north of Bethlehem, and turned it right into a settlement referred to as Har Homa. The Israeli ambitions didn’t cease there, they usually continued to violate the Oslo Accords, the Hebron Protocol and the Wye River Memorandum.
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The Al-Aqsa Intifada was a Palestinian revolt towards the concept of co-existence underneath the shadows of occupation, and the Israeli response was extra killing, repression, slaughter and conspiracy. Throughout that point, Sharon succeeded in cornering Abu Ammar within the Muqata’a compound and imposing home arrest, which was witnessed by all the Palestinian leaders who’re, in the present day, shedding tears for Abu Ammar. Abu Ammar remained imprisoned in AL-Muqata’a, whereas the remainder of the PLO leaders continued to maneuver round, travelled by way of Israeli checkpoints, crossed from Gaza to the West Financial institution and, from the West Financial institution, to Jordan. Farouk Kaddoumi participated within the Arab Summit Convention in Beirut 2002, at a time when the Arab leaders didn’t enable Abu Ammar to make Palestine’s speech from inside the Muqata’a, the place Sharon had besieged him.
Abu Ammar was liquidated as a prisoner, whereas his colleagues, buddies and heirs continued to maneuver round. His deputy and Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas, met with Sharon in June 2003 in Aqaba and, within the presence of US President Bush, reached an settlement to finish the Intifada and be glad with residing underneath the occupation. This led to the liquidation of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, whereas the safety coordination and cooperation grew to become sacred. Nevertheless, none of this glad the Israelis. It didn’t result in the institution of a Palestinian state or cease the killing, intrusions and restrictions on the lives of the Palestinians, till 60 per cent of the West Financial institution grew to become fully underneath Israeli management and the Palestinians retreated inside their cities, camps and villages, powerless to defend their sanctuaries.
Are the Israelis glad with this equation? Did their management cease plotting towards the Palestinian presence itself contained in the West Financial institution cities, besieged by settlements and bypass roads? Will they ever recognise the human rights of the Palestinians, after denying their political rights?
The reply that everybody, close to and much, now realises is that the Israeli occupation desires the land with out the folks, even when the folks settle for to stay in Gaza and the West Financial institution in residential communities, as is the case with their fellow Palestinians within the territories occupied in 1948. The occupation won’t settle for this equation, and it’ll not give the Palestinians any equal human rights, which has damage our folks within the territories occupied in 1948, who discovered themselves, 70 years after making an attempt to co-exist with the Israelis, nonetheless being humiliated and struggling apartheid.
Expertise is one of the best trainer, and whoever doesn’t be taught from peoples’ experiences stays a failed scholar within the main college of safety coordination and cooperation, looking for their desires among the many ashes of their errors.
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This text first appeared in Arabic in the Palestinian Information Centre on 26 October 2021
The views expressed on this article belong to the creator and don’t essentially replicate the editorial coverage of Center East Monitor.
