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Further elections are scheduled in Iraq and the
Palestinian
Authority.
If Israel was not just a fearful nation oppressing the
Palestinian
people, but the source of all evil, any form of violence, however destructive of self and others, could be justified.
Long the backbone of the
Palestinian
national movement, Fatah has been the dominant faction in the PLO.
Bolstered by the Oslo Accords and the establishment of the
Palestinian
Authority (PA) in 1994, Fatah’s popularity among Palestinians has drained away over the past decade, sapped by charges of corruption and incompetence, as well as by the eruption of the second intifada in late 2000.
Abbas wants all the candidates to be included on national lists, which would allow for proportional representation of all major
Palestinian
factions and groups.
Although the formula supported by Abbas would benefit all
Palestinian
political parities and groups, Hamas has its own agenda.
Regardless of the electoral scheme that emerges from this process, Abbas is determined to incorporate Hamas into the
Palestinian
political system.
He hopes that if Hamas becomes part of mainstream
Palestinian
politics it will be easier for him to convince its members to lay down their arms and thereby broaden his popular mandate for peace talks with Israel.
Hamas has long been on American and European terror lists and would like to change its image in the West as it enters the
Palestinian
political system.
Some recent reports indicate that Hamas’s rising political clout in the
Palestinian
territories has prompted the Bush administration to consider easing its hard-line approach.
Arafat’s Last HurrrahIn his protracted moment of death, Yasir Arafat performed his last act of duty to the
Palestinian
cause to which he devoted his entire life.
It was Yasir Arafat, through the
Palestinian
Liberation Organization (PLO) he founded, that gave them a sense of identity as a people.
If politics is defined as the art of compromise, Arafat was a master of it at the
Palestinian
and Arab levels.
He was unable to re-engage his Israeli adversaries or control his suicide-bound
Palestinian
militants.
Nor was he able to contain let alone combat rampant corruption in the
Palestinian
Authority.
The sustained focus of the media on him, to the point of near saturation, focused world attention on the
Palestinian
Question once again.
It is as if in death, Arafat has given his people a chance to achieve what he could not achieve in life –the dream of an independent democratic
Palestinian
state.
Even after the Six-Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973, when they and other countries around the world were calling for the creation of a
Palestinian
state, they did not sever their diplomatic relations with Israel.
What remains to be seen is whether Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since June 2007, will eventually support this initiative by its bitter rival, Abbas’s West Bank-based
Palestinian
Authority.
Moreover, it is widely believed that the Arab Spring has encouraged the
Palestinian
leadership to seek to change the rules of the game.
Arabs throughout the region, though preoccupied with domestic affairs, are nonetheless pressing a new generation of leaders to support the
Palestinian
cause more actively.
More than 120 countries are believed to support the
Palestinian
bid for statehood.
The US has threatened to veto the resolution in the Security Council, and the US Congress has threatened to suspend American aid to the
Palestinian
Authority.
Israel has denounced the
Palestinian
strategy as a unilateral initiative, and has threatened the Palestinians with severe reprisals.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman suggested canceling the Oslo Accords, signed with the Palestine Liberation Organization in September 1993, which provided the basis for the creation of the
Palestinian
Authority in 1994.
Israel is also considering a suspension of transfers of
Palestinian
tax and customs revenues, and has threatened to annex parts of the West Bank.
Hamas slammed Abbas’s speech at the UN and his bid for statehood, because it relinquishes 78% of historic Palestine and endangers
Palestinian
refugees’ right of return.
Indeed, Hamas is convinced that any success for Abbas and the
Palestinian
Authority will further discredit its rule and increase its isolation in besieged Gaza.
Hamas’s support for
Palestinian
statehood within the 1967 borders would convey at least indirect recognition of Israel.
However, the
Palestinian
bid at the UN will internationalize the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and discredit US mediating leverage.
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