Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Red eye on the news

There will be no civil war in Palestine.

A friend of mine from Holland asked me after the clashes in Gaza and in some cities in the West bank: did the civil war in Palestine begin? And what is my opinion about this situation?
First of all I want to assure my friend and all those who read what I write that no civil war will erupt in Palestine. What happened recently is not more than isolated events; the Palestinian people know who did it and know who stand behind it. It won’t develop to the full scale of civil war. The Palestinian people went through more difficult circumstances and many powers, local and non-local, tried all the time to push the Palestinians for civil war, but they failed.
I want to explain why this attempt will fail too and who stands behind it.
Since the elections to the Palestinian legislative council in the beginning of this year which resulted by big fall of Fatah ruling organization and the victory of Hammas, at least five involved powers began their campaign to bring the end of Hammas government even before it began working. In spite that the elections where according to all of the principles of democracy call by the so called democratic world.
These five powers are:
1) The Fatah ruling party. Since the Oslo agreements in 1993, the leaders of this organization gave Israel a lot of consessions promising the Palestinians in the end to have an independent state. As everybody knows now, there’s not any independence. The occupation not only continues, but became more and more savage and cruel. Land confiscations, building new settlements, the apartheid wall from one side and the deterioration of the economical situation of the Palestinians from the other side, exposed the Oslo agreements as a big lie: there’s no peace and no independence. The only thing which this period created was a corrupted ruling party mainly formed by the leaders of Fatah. About the corruption of Mahmoud Abbas and the gang around him, especially Dahlan, Rajoub, Qrei’, Erikat, are many stories in Palestine. So they try to restore their post even by price of beginning a civil war, but because they are bankrupt even in the eyes of the Fatah masses, they won’t succeed alone.
2) The Israeli government: Israel considers every resistance to the occupation as terror. By itself this is not new, but since the victory of Hamas in the election it escalates it action. It exploits the fact that Americans and the Europeans agree with it that Hamas is a terrorist organization, now all its military actions was on the pretext of fighting world terrorism. Even when the victims are more than 200 children, and when the victims are a family spending its time on the beach or a family hideing inside their home. Sometimes Israel accused Hamas to have relations with Al-Qa’ida net, other times with Iran and Hezbollah. Now Israel is playing a very dirty role as civil warmongers by inciting Abbas to get rid of Hamas by force, promising him some money and renewal of negotiations.
3) The Arab regimes: most Arab governments, who shed crocodile tears about the bad situation of the Palestinians, cooperate to enforce a total blockade against the Palestinian people to push it to hunger and to revolt against Hamas government. Under the pressure of Israel, the Jordanian government accused Hamas with smuggling weapons and forbid premier Hanya to visit Amman. From the other side Egypt presses Hamas to accept the so called international demands (read Israeli-American demands) as a precondition to keep power. Meanwhile it strangles the Gaza stroke by controlling with Israeli and European observers with an iron hand the checkpoint of Rafah.
4) The American administration: the USA adopts all the Israeli actions and policies in the occupied Palestinian territories. And more, they finance these actions by weapons and money. And support Israel by its Vito in the UN Security Council. The USA, Europe and Israel give, now, a bear hug to Abbas and incite him to fight against Hamas.
5) The European Union: I exclude Blair, because he belongs to the American-Israeli side. I mean the other coward and hypocrite countries which are called the donators countries. From one side they talk about the human suffer of the Palestinian, from the other side they make their contribution to the total siege and practice pressure on Hamas to recognize Israel and renounce resistance.
Hamas itself as a government, political and military organizations also plays a role in this situation. That they play according the Israeli-American rules (democratic elections) didn’t help them. If they reject Oslo agreements and want to continue with resistance, they should reject elections under occupation. Because whether they win or lose the elections, it is the same thing.
In spite of all that, the Palestinian people will abort all attempts for civil war, because they know the cards of all partners. And every child knows that Bush, Olmert, Blair, Abbas and everyone who would like to join this camp, don’t want the Palestinian's well being.

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