Demand Palestinian Reconciliation

I simply cannot understand the division within the Palestinian political makeup and I cannot understand why Palestinians are not speaking up against this division in our ranks.

Here we are a people struggling to free ourselves from the cruel and unjust chains of occupation and an apartheid system under the iron fists of a brutal Israeli army and we are more organized in our disunity rather organized against our oppressor.  One faction is being blackmailed by allowing the oppressor to collect the tax dollars that belong to the Palestinian people that it governs while the other faction is being retaliated against with US made weaponry with the goal of the oppressor to keep the two Palestinian factions from reconciling.  Both are playing into the hands of the collective oppressor.

Israel would like nothing better than to continue the division between Fatah, which controls the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.  By keeping these Palestinian factions split, Israel hopes to impose a three state solution (3SS) to the decades old conflict. Israel is working against a demographic time bomb that will unquestionably label the so called democratic Jewish (oxymoron) state an apartheid state, even if it does not agree with this label now.  Israelis will become a minority within the 1948 borders of Palestine by the year 2016; and as a minority it will collapse as a government as it cannot rule a Palestinian majority as did the apartheid regime of the minority White South Africa collapse as it tried to rule the Black African majority.  Keeping the Palestinian factions from reconciling through blackmail and military might, Israel hopes to overcome this demographic time bomb by imposing a 3SS. 

The division, ironically, started after democratic elections in 2006. Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislature and should have been allowed to govern. Israel and the US would not recognize the victor despite the fact that the world was told by President George W. Bush that the Iraqi invasion will lead to the democratization of the region. Instead of embracing democracy, blackmail and sanctions were imposed upon the Palestinians for having elected Hamas. The irony of the taunting democracies to not recognize a democratic election is beyond me.  What further irks me is that Fatah played right along with this devaluing of the democratic principles that the Palestinians are told they must have in order to establish a state.

The silence of Fatah during the 2008-2009 Israeli invasion and constant slaughter of Gaza was beyond belief.  Here was Israel bombarding innocent Palestinian women and children and Fatah leaders said nothing.  This was demoralizing to all of us diaspora Palestinians who demonstrated and organized against this massacre which was happening before our television screens for three weeks.  What we should have been demonstrating against was the silence of Palestinian Authority leaders.

Yet it was not enough that Israel was killing Palestinians, Palestinians died from bullets fired by Palestinians during 2008 and 2009 as the various clashes between Fatah and Hamas forces spilled Palestinian blood. While unfortunately we are all too familiar with seeing Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers, we are not accustomed to seeing Palestinians kill Palestinians. This is unbelievable the worst thing that Palestinians can do to each other.  Instead of having a unified front against the oppressor, the two factions started vilifying and attacking each other which lead to Fatah controlling the West Bank and Hamas governing Gaza.  Ultimately, this division is leading right into the Israeli plans to split, divide and impose its 3SS.

Reconciliation attempts have thus far been unsuccessful with the Doha Agreement signed by Fatah and Hamas in 2012 still far from being implemented. The agreement is described as “stalled” as no unity government is in sight. Legislative elections have been announced, delayed and rescheduled—this time for October, 2013, seven years after the last elections.  There are election law reforms which are in dispute. They were imposed by President Abbas because he states that he could rule by decree as long as the legislature is unable to convene.  From my readings, I am not sure whether Hamas will participate in the elections.

Both Fatah and Hamas need to go to the ballot box in October, 2013 and allow the Palestinian people to once again democratically vote their collective will. Whoever wins the election must be respected by both factions. If a unity government needs to be part of a ruling coalition, then the Palestinian people demand that such a ruling government be allowed to govern regardless what Israel, the US and Europe want, think, blackmail or impose.

If Hamas wins again, Fatah must stand up to the Israelis, the US and European leaders and state categorically that Hamas is the ruling party and that all Palestinians will stand unified behind Hamas.  The imposition that Hamas must first recognize Israel and denounce violence is nothing more than smoke and mirrors to keep the Palestinians from reconciling.  It is a diversion from getting to the crux of the conflict; it is another delay tactic by Israel to keep the status quo while it usurps more and more Palestinian land on the West Bank, land that Israel does not want to concede as it wants a 3SS. Israel wants to retain Area C and parts of Area B; wants the PA to establish a state on Area A and part of Area B that Israel is willing to give up; and it wants Gaza to be a separate state.  

This imposition upon Hamas is hypocritical as within Israel there are parties that want to either annihilate the Palestinians completely (as Hitler wanted to do to the Jews) or scatter them among the other Arab states.

Israel’s demand that Hamas recognize the State of Israel (not just as a state but a Jewish State) is absurd and will not result in any new round of talks.  “Hamas didn't come to power until 2006/07. Between 1993 & 2006 Israel had the more moderate, peaceful & pliant Palestinian authority (which recognizes Israel & renounces violence) to deal with as a partner for peace. What did Israel do? Did it make peace?” [see Michael Aydinian https://www.facebook.com/groups/321400271210048/permalink/622882407728498/)  

Israel cannot impose upon the Palestinians who can or cannot speak for them just as Palestinians cannot impose upon Israel who can be a part of their coalition government.  Since 1984 every Israeli coalition government included the Shas Party whose spiritual leader openly called for the annihilation of the Palestinian people without any repudiation by any Israeli leader, including Benjamin Netanyahu.  Could the Palestinians have said that they will not negotiate with Israel as long as this racist and Nazi-like party is part of the Israeli government?  Rightfully, Israelis would reject this precondition as should the Palestinians reject the imposition that Hamas cannot be part of any Palestinian government unless certain preconditions are met.

Before Palestinian elections are called, however, the Palestinian people, both in Palestine and in the diaspora, need to call upon both Fatah and Hamas to reconcile. We as a people need to impose upon our Palestinian leaders the wisdom of unity despite what the US and Israel want.  We can no longer be a house divided.  We can disagree with each other but when confronting the oppressor, we need to be united.

If the US and Israel want to impose economic and financial sanctions or want to withhold financial aid from the Palestinians, that should be the price of unity. The price of destabilization is what the Israelis and the US will have to consider for blackmailing the Palestinians.  Destabilizing economic conditions will lead to a third Intifada and Israel and the US will be to blame.   

I call upon all my Fatah and Hamas friends to speak up and communicate to Fatah and Hamas leaders that the time to stop this quibbling must end and now.  We need to demand that Fatah and Hamas reconcile now at all costs.

هل الروح البشرية اطاحة نظام الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي

(قمت بترجمة هذه المقالة على Google. كما هو محدود لغتي العربية لقراءةالكلام والقليل جدا، لا أستطيع أن يشهدوا على دقة              الترجمة، وأنا لا تقدم سوىأنها على سكن لقرائي.)

روح الإنسان لديه قدرة كبيرة على البر والتفاهم. ترى من خلال يوم غائم. فإنه يرى من خلال أحلك الليل. انها تقطع من إهانات من الظلم. أنه يعطي الأمل للذهول.روح الإنسان يعرف أن الفصل العنصري إسرائيل ليست مستعدة للسلام بغض النظر عمن هو رئيس الوزراء. هيكل نظام الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي من هذه الحكومة هو أنه لحكم حكومة ائتلافية. وبذلك الحلقة الأضعف داخل هذا التحالف لديه كل السلطة داخل الحكومة لأنه إذا لم يتم الالتزام بها من السياسات الرامية إلى سيتم إسقاط الحكومة.هناك الآن ما لا يقل عن 6 الأطراف الرئيسية التي ستشارك في أي انتخابات في المستقبل بالنسبة للمقاعد الكنيست الفصل العنصري تلقي كل حوالي 15 مقعدا في المتوسط ​​، مع بقية تسيطر عليها الأحزاب السياسية الصغيرة. ومن المتوقع أن الحزب وفقا لأعلى المقاعد المطلوب ليكود ب 24 فقط ، وبعيدة كل البعد عن ال 61 اللازمة للحكم بمفرده. وبالتالي فإن أي حكومة أن تستمر إسرائيل أن يكون لديك أمثال حزب شاس ، الذي يريد الزعيم الروحي لإبادة الفلسطينيين ، ناهيك عن صنع السلام معهم ، أو مع حزب اسرائيل بيتنا ، الذي هو زعيم المتعصبين كما أنها تأتي.فمن المستحيل سياسيا بالنسبة لاسرائيل تريد اتفاق سلام نهائي مع أمثال هذه الأحزاب المتطرفة داخل أي حكومة ، سواء التي من المرجح أن تكون جزءا من أي حكومة ائتلافية. مع حزب كاديما والحزب الجديد لم يكشف عن اسمه من المرجح أن يتم تشكيلها من قبل سياسي تحولت في الآونة الأخيرة ، مذيع القناة 2 يائير لابيد ، وليس من المرجح التوصل الى اتفاق مع نظام الفصل العنصري في رئيس ونتنياهو ، وحزب الليكود أن تتحول مرة أخرى إلى واحد أو على حد سواء شاس وحزب اسرائيل Beteinu للانضمام الى حكومته الائتلافية مرة أخرى.ويمكن للأطراف في الوسط أو اليسار الايديولوجيات السياسية الإسرائيلية لا الفصل العنصري في تشكيل حكومة ائتلافية كما شاس وحزب اسرائيل لا تزال بعيدة جدا Beteinu الحق في أيديولوجياتها للانضمام إلى أمثال كديما والعمل. ولكن حتى لو كنت مخطئا ويفعلون الانضمام الى حكومة بقيادة كاديما أو حزب العمل ، فإن مشاركتها في أي حكومة مشروطة على الالتزام السياسي ، استمرار إيديولوجيات التوسع الاستيطاني حول القدس وفي الضفة الغربية التي هي في الواقع الموت إلى أي حل الدولتين.ولكن هذا لا يجلب سوى الأمل وروح الإنسان لا يمكن أن يعرف أن يستمر الفصل العنصري. الانقسامات في اسرائيل الفصل العنصري يمكن أن يؤدي فقط الى تدمير الحكومة الإسرائيلية للشكل ، أي نظام الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي ، والحل في نهاية المطاف دولة واحدة.
 اسمحوا لي أن أشرح.

 يمكن الفصل العنصري اسرائيل لن تستمر في العمل كما يفعل.وهو بيت منقسم. قراءة مقالتي بعنوان الفصل العنصري إسرائيل هي بيت منقسم (http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2012/01/apartheid-israel-is-house-divided-it.html). انها انقسامات واضحة كثيرة جدا داخل بتركيبته السياسية التي لا يمكن أن تعمل لفترة أطول من ذلك بكثير.لفترة وجيزة ، والانقسامات داخل النظام السياسي ، والانقسامات ما بين اليهود والعرب داخل الضباب والخمسين ؛ حكمها الاحتلال العسكري أكثر من 4.5 الفلسطينيين في حين أنه في مختلف القواعد 500000 مستوطن الفصل العنصري غير القانوني في الضفة الغربية ؛ قسمها الثقافات : اليهود فقط الطرق الالتفافية ، لوحات مختلفة لليهود والفلسطينيين ، وجدار الفصل العنصري ، والأسوار في السجون عقد الالكترونية حول المدن الفلسطينية ، دخول المقيدة وجود نقطة تنتشر في الضفة الغربية المدن الفلسطينية ، وتدمير الزراعة الفلسطينية ، ونقاط التفتيش المذلة والمسيئة التي هي تذكرة يومية ان الروح الفلسطينية ليست حرة.هذه الانقسامات أن إسرائيل منقسمة سياسيا يديم الفصل العنصري في كل مرة يكون لديه الانتخابات لن تؤدي إلا إلى طريق تدمير الذات التي سوف تستسلم في نهاية المطاف إلى.نظرا إلى أن نظام الحكم في إسرائيل الفصل العنصري لا يمكن أن يؤدي ربما إلى تسوية سلمية نهائية ، أي التفاوض معها هو مضيعة للوقت والفصل العنصري اسرائيل لا تريد سوى تأخير ما لا مفر منه ، روح الإنسان الفلسطينية والرغبة في أن يكون حرا والذي يؤدي الفصل العنصري تدمير إسرائيل في نهاية المطاف وحل الدولة الواحدة.لقد انهار يزال قادة الفلسطينيين في رام الله في لضغوط من العاهل الأردني الملك عبدالله وإلى أعضاء اللجنة الرباعية من الولايات المتحدة والاتحاد الاوروبي والاتحاد السوفياتي والأمم المتحدة ، واجتمع مرتين مع المفاوضين الاسرائيليين في عمان ، الأردن هذه الماضيين أسابيع.لمزيد من إغراء الفلسطينيين على مواصلة التفاوض ، ورئيس الفصل العنصري نتنياهو على وشك أن يعطي بقيادة فتح في الضفة الغربية للسيطرة على مزيد من الأراضي. هذه العقلية التهدئة تكتيك آخر هو التأخير الذي يهدف الى الاستمرار في ممارسات الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي. ليس هناك إشارة إلى أن الفصل العنصري اسرائيل ستوقف التوسع الاستيطاني ، وأنه سيبدأ محادثات الوضع النهائي حول القدس ، وحق العودة ، والحدود ، أو أن السلام سيأتي حتما في وقت محدد بعض الحقيقي. بدلا من ذلك ، ان اسرائيل تريد الفصل العنصري التأخير والتأخير والتأخير.كذلك ، فإن المقصود تدابير التهدئة من جانب نتنياهو رئيس الفصل العنصري لتدمير محاولات المصالحة بين حركتي فتح وحماس ، ومنع الفلسطينيين من السعي إلى اعتراف دولي في الأمم المتحدة. فمن المحتمل جدا أن المقصود الضغط على الرئيس الفلسطيني محمود عباس ، زعيم حزب حركة فتح ، ليجتمع مع المفاوضين الإسرائيليين الفصل العنصري لقيادة حماس الى الانسحاب من المصالحة مع فتح. وينبغي أن فتح لن تشارك في مخططات إسرائيل بالفصل العنصري وسندها الرئيسي في الولايات المتحدة.بينما أنا أفهم أن الحوافز النقدية بأن الغرب يوفر حكومة فتح التي يتزعمها في الضفة الغربية وتحقيق الاستقرار في الاقتصاد والحماسة السياسية للفلسطينيين ، والمفاوضات مع اسرائيل هو مثل دفن نفسه في الأرض مع ما يكفي من الماء والهواء والغذاء في جوهر قتل روح الإنسان أن يكون حرا.تغلبت روح الإنسان أن يكون حرا ملك مستعمر البريطاني الأميركي أعلن استقلالها في 4 يوليو 1776 مع عبارة : "كل الناس خلقوا متساوين ، وأن وهبوا من قبل خالقهم حقوق معينة قابلة للتصرف ، أنه من بين هذه هي الحياة ، الحرية والسعي وراء السعادة ".ثورة في الروح البشرية فرنسا في عام 1789 إلى فك القيود والتقاليد والمفاهيم التسلسل الهرمي للسلطة الملكية والارستقراطية والدينية وتؤدي مبادئ التنوير جديد من المساواة في الحقوق والمواطنة وغير القابلة للتصرف.جلبت روح الإنسان باستمرار نظام الفصل العنصري في جنوب افريقيا.أطاح روح الإنسان الإمبراطورية البريطانية من الهند الاقوياء.الروح البشرية تدميرا كاملا عقلية العبودية في أميركا فقط لتنشيط نفسها وتؤدي المساواة لجميع الرجال والنساء والأطفال.وسوف تدمر روح الإنسان في نهاية المطاف ممارسات الفصل العنصري في إسرائيل. انه أمر لا مفر منه. حل الدولة الواحدة هو الخيار الوحيد لإسرائيل الفصل العنصري.


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The Human Spirit Will Overthrow Apartheid Israel

The human spirit has a great capacity for righteousness and understanding.  It sees through the cloudiest day. It sees through the darkest night. It breaks off the indignities of injustice. It gives hope to the distraught.

The human spirit knows that Apartheid Israel is not ready for peace no matter who is Prime Minister.  The structure of the Apartheid Israeli system of government is such that it has to rule by a coalition government. Thus the weakest link within that coalition has all the power within that government for if its policies are not adhered to than the government will be toppled.

There are now at least 6 major parties that will compete in any future elections for the Apartheid Knesset seats each receiving about 15 seats on average, with the rest controlled by smaller political parties. The party with the highest seats is expected to be Likud with only 24, a far cry from the 61 needed to rule alone. Thus any government that will run Israel will have to have the likes of the Shas Party, whose spiritual leader wants to annihilate Palestinians, much less make peace with them; or with the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, whose leader is as fanatical as they come.

It is politically impossible for Israel to want a final peace agreement with the likes of these extremist parties within any government, either of which will most likely be a part of any coalition government. With the Kadima Party and the new unnamed Party likely to be formed by recently turned politician, Channel 2 anchorman Yair Lapid, not likely to strike a deal with Apartheid-in-Chief Netanyahu, Likud will have to turn once again to one or both the Shas and Yisrael Beteinu parties to join his coalition again.

The Parties to the center or left of Apartheid Israeli political ideologies cannot form a coalition government as the Shas and Yisrael Beteinu parties are too far right in their ideologies to join the likes of Kadima and Labor.  But even if I am wrong and they do join a government led by Labor or Kadima, then their participation in any government will conditioned on an adherence to their political ideologies—continuation of settlement expansion around Jerusalem and in the West Bank which is in effect death to any two state solution.

But this only brings hope as the human spirit knows that apartheid cannot be sustained.  The divisions in Apartheid Israel can only lead to the destruction of Israeli form of government, i.e. the Israeli apartheid system and to the eventual one state solution.  

 Let me explain.

 Apartheid Israel cannot continue to function as it does.  It is a house divided.  Read my article entitled Apartheid Israel is a House Divided (http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2012/01/apartheid-israel-is-house-divided-it.html).  It has too many obvious divisions within its political makeup that is cannot function for much longer.

Briefly, the divisions are within its political system, its divisions between Jews and Arabs within its mist; its military occupation rule over 4.5 Palestinians while it rules differently the five hundred thousand illegal apartheid settlers  in the West Bank; its division of cultures: Jews only by-pass roads, different license  plates for Jews and Palestinians, an apartheid separation wall, electronic prison holding fences around Palestinian towns, restricted entry and exist points dotting the West Bank Palestinian towns, destruction of Palestinian agriculture, and the humiliating and offensive checkpoints that are a daily reminder that the Palestinian soul is not free.

These divisions that a politically divided Apartheid Israel perpetuates each time it has an election only leads to the self-destructive path that it will eventually succumb to.  

Given that the system of government in Apartheid Israel cannot possibly lead to a final peace settlement, any negotiation with it is a complete waste of time as Apartheid Israel only wants to delay the inevitable—the Palestinian human spirit’s desire to be free which will cause Apartheid Israel’s destruction and the eventual one state solution.

Still Palestinian leaders in Ramallah have caved in to pressures from King Abdullah of Jordan and to the Quartet members of the United States, European Union, Soviet Union and the United Nations and have met twice with the chief Israeli negotiator in Amman, Jordan these past two weeks.

To further entice the Palestinians to continue to negotiate, Chief Apartheid Netanyahu is about to give the Fatah led West Bank more land to control.  This appeasement mentality is another delay tactic which is meant to continue the Israeli apartheid practices.  There is no hint that Apartheid Israel will stop settlement expansion; that it will begin final status talks on Jerusalem, right of return and borders; or that peace will definitely come at some real definite time. Rather, Apartheid Israel wants to delay, delay, delay.

Further, appeasement measures by Chief Apartheid Netanyahu are meant to destroy reconciliation attempts between Fatah and Hamas and to prevent Palestinians from seeking international recognition at the UN.  It is very likely that pressure upon President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Fatah Party, to meet with Apartheid Israeli negotiators is meant to lead Hamas to withdraw from reconciliation with Fatah.  Fatah should not participate in the schemes of Apartheid Israel and its chief supporter the US.

While I understand that the monetary incentives that the West provides the Fatah led government in the West Bank are stabilizing to the economy and political fervor of Palestinians, negotiations with Israel is like burying oneself in the ground with just enough air, water and food—in essence killing the human spirit to be free.

The human spirit to be free overcame a British King as American colonist declared its Independence on July 4, 1776 with the words: “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The human spirit revolutionized France in 1789 to unshackle the traditions and hierarchy concepts of the monarchy, aristocracy and religious authority and bring forth new Enlightenment principles of equality, citizenship and inalienable rights.  

The human spirit brought down apartheid in South Africa.

The human spirit ousted the mighty British Empire from India.

The human spirit completely destroyed the slavery mentality in America only to revitalize itself and bring forth equality to all men, woman and children.

                The human spirit will eventually destroy the apartheid practices of Israel.  It is inevitable. A one state solution is the only alternative to Apartheid Israel. 



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