About the Meeting of the Secretaries-General of the Palestinian Factions
By Ayoub Othman
.. Palestinian writer and academic
I have never been happy, At the meeting of the Secretaries-General of the Palestinian factions held in Beirut, Last Thursday 3/9/2020, As I have never been happy, By what they said, What they said assured me that all of them, without exception, had forgotten, Or they have forgotten, They are meeting under the chairmanship of Abu Mazen.
– Who said, Without fear, shame or shame, In front of a delegation of extremist rabbis in his office in Ramallah: “Israel is here to stay…”, He also said: “Security coordination is sacred, sacred, sacred.”
– Who said, Away from the language of national frankness, honesty and directness, Rather, it is an expression of humiliation, humiliation and insult to national dignity: “I live under the machetes of the Israelis,” “I am a president of power without authority,” “We are under occupation at no cost.”
– which has besieged the Gaza Strip and its people for 14 years, Salaries have been cut off from them, prisoners, their families and employees since March 2017.
– who wasted decades of the life of the Palestinian people in absurd negotiation, Where he remained – and still is – to negotiate as a single way, and no other, Despite admitting failure more than once, Despite the recognition of his chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, that what the negotiation achieved is nothing more than zero.
– Who mocks the resistance and the ships of breaking the siege, saying: “I don’t believe in armed resistance, Because they are absurd and their rockets are absurd,” “Ships breaking the blockade are also absurd.”
– who went to the State of Israel to express condolences on Peres’ death, The President of the occupying Power, He formed a committee called the Committee for Communication with Israeli Society, which he sends to the occupying power from time to time.
– which has kept the split for 14 years until this moment, Throughout this period of division, he was able to come to Gaza. Especially after three devastating wars over it, to convene sessions of his government, And under the eyes and ears of the world, On the ruins of Shujaiya, Beit Hanoun, Khuza’a and… And.. ، But he didn’t, He is a president in his grip of a group of presidencies, not a single presidency.
– Who allowed the settlements to expand and expand until the settlers had a state within the occupation state, He did not pay attention to the cartographer, Al-Tafakji, Who said: “Unfortunately, negotiations are taking place and the settlers are increasing. This indicates that the commissioning rounds are an excellent opportunity for the Israeli government to expand settlements.”
– which has emptied the PLO of its true militant content, Where nothing has been done regarding its activation, revival and development, In implementation of what has been agreed upon more than once, Especially at the meeting of the factions in Cairo in March 2005 and in the Cairo Agreement in 2011.
– Who does not believe in the legitimacy of resisting occupation by every available means except negotiation, which he considers to be one and only means and no other, He says: “The alternative to negotiations is negotiations, If negotiations fail, We have no choice but negotiations.”
– which prevented – and continues to prevent – any movement against the occupation in the West Bank, It also stands against the return marches in the Gaza Strip, Doing his best not to reach the West Bank, This adds calm and strength to the Zionist position.
– who declared, Without shame or shame, He meets every month with the head of the Shin Bet security service, stressing that he agrees with him on all security matters by more than 99%.
– who did not abide by what was issued by the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization more than once, As of March 2015.
– Who told the Egyptian channel Dream Second on 22/10/2011 that he would not remain in power if two or more of the people said: “Down with Abbas”, Which means that he says what he does not do.
– Who turned his back on the 2017 Beirut understandings regarding the convening of the Palestinian National Council, Where he held it in Ramallah alone, Contrary to what was agreed.
– which dissolved the elected legislature, which the law does not permit to dissolve, Contrary to Article 47 bis, He formed the Constitutional Court, Contrary to the law, Also.
– Which was his response to the reconciliation agreement concluded in Cairo in October 2017 by continuing the crime of imposing sanctions against the Gaza Strip, its people, prisoners and the families of its prisoners.
– which has been for years and years – and even before now – refusing to convene the interim leadership framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Also continued in “About the meeting of the secretaries-general of the Palestinian factions”
Having said that, if what we have mentioned above is a small part of Abu Mazen’s black history, which the secretaries-general seem to have forgotten or forgotten, I wonder: “Didn’t anyone think of informing Abu Mazen – in his own way – that the Zionist/Emirati step of the integration alliance (not normalization) was only a product of Oslo, of which Abbas was its architect and godfather, as well as the result of Abbas’s insistence on continuing the path of negotiation as one path, one orphan and irreplaceable?!
Did not one of the speakers think to point out that this rapid, significant and dangerous collapse in the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic arena would not have been like this if our national charter had remained as it was? Without removing the resistance from its provisions, The price of a bitter peace from which our people have reaped nothing but harm, Why should we push for restoring it as it was?!
As for the last words, I believe that if we assume – for the sake of argument – that all the secretaries-general have forgotten or preferred to forget this little of the patriotic reproaches practiced by Abu Mazen, Some of which we have mentioned above, Is it for the head of the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas”, Ismail Haniyeh, The national revolutionary does not leave his tongue whenever he speaks and in what subject he speaks, To forget like them or to forget?!
Didn’t the head of Hamas come to mind? Ismail Haniyeh, To demand that Abu Mazen apologize to the Palestinian people for all his actual and verbal actions against him, And that we mentioned a small part of it? Didn’t he think of asking Abu Mazen to apologize for besieging the Gaza Strip and its people and cutting off their salaries and the salaries of their prisoners and families?!
