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As for Jordan, the precarious balance between the
Palestinian
majority and the Bedouin minority was difficult enough to maintain in stable times; it is a far more precarious undertaking now.
Israel, which withdrew unilaterally to the periphery of Gaza in September 2005, has been seeking to prevent
Palestinian
resistance fighters from lobbing rockets into its territory.
Yet the
Palestinian
resistance has responded with more rocket attacks.
Israeli assassination campaigns against militants have merely led to further escalation on the
Palestinian
side.
Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch’s Middle East director, rejected Israel’s justification of the fuel cuts as a way to force
Palestinian
armed groups to stop their rocket and suicide attacks.
Only such an understanding can permit a start to the groundwork needed for a political resolution that can permanently end both the siege of Gaza and the occupation of
Palestinian
lands.
We are sincerely interested in the establishment of a
Palestinian
state living peacefully side-by-side with Israel, the democratic state of the Jewish people.
Iran also uses proxies to instigate terror against moderate forces in the
Palestinian
Authority, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Abbas’s withdrawal comes at a time when
Palestinian
frustration with the political process has rendered suspect the entire rationale behind the PA, established in the mid-1990’s, following the Oslo Accords.
The main component of the PLO’s agreement with Israel was a five-year interim period during which negotiations were expected to lead to an independent
Palestinian
state alongside Israel.
Sixteen years later, it has become clear that the Israelis have made no effort to come to terms with
Palestinian
national aspirations – and that no effective effort has been made to convince them.
The number of illegal Jewish settlers in
Palestinian
areas has doubled, leaving Palestinians increasingly convinced that negotiations are a waste of time.
Initially, the five-year interim agreement called for the election of a
Palestinian
Legislative Council and an executive leader whom the Israelis wanted to call a “chairman,” spurning the word “president.”
Palestinian
refugees in exile and other Palestinians living in the diaspora were not allowed to vote.
But for years Hamas and other radical
Palestinian
groups have rejected the Oslo process, on the grounds that free elections under Israeli occupation would be absurd.
The PLO’s old guard – men like Yasser Arafat and Abbas, who led the liberation organization from exile and returned home with the Oslo Accords – dominated the
Palestinian
political landscape up to now.
After they depart the scene,
Palestinian
leaders who were born under occupation and spent time in Israeli prisons will most likely fill the vacuum.
The coming months will reveal whether we are, indeed, witnessing the dawn of the post-Oslo era in
Palestinian
politics, and whether a new leader, with new supporters, will be required to revive the
Palestinian
cause.
In the
Palestinian
territories, the jil al-intifada , the generation of the (first and second)
Palestinian
uprising, will likely become the founding generation.
Obviously, when the PLO was headquartered in Jordan, Lebanon, or Tunisia, and there was not yet a
Palestinian
Authority, Palestine did not meet any of these seven prerequisites.
Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas desperately wants to construct a functioning state.
So democracy in an independent
Palestinian
state is possible.
Even if we accept that Israel has a legitimate reason to shut down tunnels that are used to infiltrate
Palestinian
commandos into Israel, this does not explain why it is necessary to bomb schools, power plants, hospitals, mosques, and densely packed civilian areas.
The official explanation is that
Palestinian
missiles are hidden in civilian areas.
But the recent assault on the Yarmouk
Palestinian
refugee camp in Damascus by Daesh (Islamic State) fighters has shocked and appalled even the most hardened observers.
Is Saudi Arabia’s Sunni government more concerned and frightened by Shia Islam than it is committed to Arab unity and the
Palestinian
cause?
In Sunni eyes, the Shia not only dominate the oil-rich areas of Iran, Iraq, and the eastern region of Saudi Arabia, but are – through the actions of Hezbollah – attempting to usurp the role of “protector” of the central dream of all Arabs, the
Palestinian
cause.
Together with its regional ambitions and efforts to position itself as the main champion of the
Palestinian
cause, Turkey appears to be directly challenging Egypt’s vital interests.
Difficult decisions will at last be made rather than quirkily postponed: on the peace with the
Palestinian
and with Syria, on the economy, on social justice, on education.
Has Palestine Won?TEL AVIV – The somber spectacle of Israel’s isolation during the United Nations debate on
Palestinian
statehood marks the political tsunami that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s critics warned would arrive if Israel did not propose a bold peace initiative.
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