What compromise are they talking about, and with whom? By Dr. Abdelilah Belkeziz-Morocco
Translated from Arabic by sawtoroba.com/Eng
What compromise are they talking about, and with whom?
By Dr. Abdelilah Belkeziz-Morocco
Translated from Arabic by sawtoroba.com/Eng/
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
In the atmosphere of this national epic fighting waged by the Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza since the seventh of October, voices condemning acts of violence are multiplying and calling for its rejection and inclination to peace and settlement instead. These voices – west and East – present themselves as “rational” and “moderate,” unguided by the idea of war and armed action to resolve the conflict between the Palestinian national movement and the Zionist state. In any case, these are less ominous and deplorable voices than those that hasten — at the first clash between the perpetrator and the victim — to condemn the second, to bring down the torrent of accusations against him, and to incite further lethality against the victim.
The former seems more “balanced” than the reckless latter, at least in terms of equating the aggressor and the aggressor in that the violence must stop and travel to “peace.” But it does not differ from the other in its denial of justice in the distribution of responsibilities between the perpetrator and the victim, between the occupation and the people whose land is occupied, ignoring the mother of the facts in the matter, which is: that the occupation is the highest degree of violence and aggression… Eliminating terrorism is a national duty for the people exposed to it and a humanitarian duty for humanity to apply international law.
We remind the advocates of non-violence – who are not in the group of those who call the resistance “terrorism” – and who suggest some “balance” in the position – that the Palestinian national movement has never sanctified weapons and armed action, despite its knowledge that the land of the Palestinian people was taken away from it by force of arms. First place. This was after the departure of the Palestinian revolutionary forces from Lebanon – following the 1982 war and the siege of Beirut – and their adoption of the option of political action, which was provided by the 1987 intifada with a strategic resource of power that the PLO leadership squandered in the ill-fated Oslo Accords when the PLO leadership was forced to enter into Washington’s negotiations branching from the Madrid Conference (1991); and when it was drawn into a parallel and secret negotiating track in Oslo – it ended up signing the autonomy agreement with Israel and recognition. It has a legitimate entity! (1993)!- It was, in practice, immersed deep in the settlement pool and its bilge water. Thus, the agreement, which provided for a final solution to be reached five years after its implementation, in the form of an independent state, has now exceeded thirty years without hatching its egg and removing the “promised” state from behind its husks; all that has been born from these thirty lean years is more land theft, the construction of settlements, the expansion of existing ones, more killings, repression, arrests, the demolition of houses, the Judaization of Christian and Muslim holy sites, and the extermination of the people of Gaza in wars. Successively and tightening the noose of the siege on it…! What outcome, then, has the policy of working on the principle of seeking a negotiated settlement become?
It may be said that this political biography is specific to Fatah and the PLO, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad have nothing to do with it: that is, to the two organizations that do not believe in a political settlement with Israel and that adhere to the option of resistance. This is, in my opinion, a false correction, and Hamas, armed with its political pragmatism, has practically accepted, albeit partially, the institutions stipulated in the Oslo Accords: the Palestinian Authority, the Legislative Council, the Government… It participated in the elections and the government. It ran the authority in Gaza – like Fatah in the West Bank – and agreed with Israel – through Egypt – on a ceasefire more than once and on the exchange of prisoners… In a word, it practiced politics and political action like any other movement or authority.
Therefore, what good do the Palestinians do to walk like blind people in the option of unilateral settlement (without a Be Realty negotiator vis-à-vis them)!; Together, the two teams – each in their own way – paved the way for resistance towards breaking this cycle on that historic day of October 7, 2023
