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| Announcement: Time has come for revolution, not civil war |
| Posted: sister_harb @ Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:45 pm |
Time has come for revolution, not civil war: fear of internal bloodshed outweighs that of occupation
(Ramallah) Rashid Hilal
Thursday, 12 October 2006
Mutual recriminations between the largest Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, and dismissed, calculated invitations to solve the conflict, are pushing the Palestinian street into a darker period. It all makes the calls to form a unity government seem mere platitudes.
President Abbas refused to meet with Prime Minister Haniya while the President was in Gaza because he viewed their dialogue as being over. Hamas stated its position and has repeatedly called for the President's resignation. Yet still Hamas hopes to continue dialogue.
The Palestine Liberation Organization is incapable of directing the rudder, and members of various parties are holding televised interviews, expounding diagnoses of the crisis, as if everyone does not already know.
Pundits often talk about government efficiencies and a transition time-line being set for the end of the year for the new government to be formed. But a new government also has to work under conditions, and has to meet the satisfaction of the international community, the Americans, and the Arab community. And what is required is to recognize Israel. Can Hamas accept this formula? Certainly all indicators from what we have heard from the party leave a resounding no. Hamas rejected the Arab Initiative, which could be considered an imposition of a conditional recognition of Israel.
With internal affairs dragging further to the bottom, and as Israeli attacks continue, the threat of civil war is looming. The Palestinian street may be reaching the point of revolting, of renouncing the mentality of its parties, and stopping siding with anything that does not serve the greater national interest. Is the popular reaction within the next few days to be, enough is enough?
We do not yet know in what direction things will go, but certainly all the statements of “Tom, Dick and Harry,” levying the same charges against one another, are futile. Strangely, every member of the Legislative Council has become a spokesperson for their respective party or movement.
The Palestinian public, “the street” as we call it, is paying the highest price. The fear of internal bloodshed in the cities, villages, and refugee camps has surpassed the fear of bloodshed at the hands of the occupation. One need only remember the recent “Black Sunday,” or “Bloody Sunday” as some call it; that day in the southern Gaza Strip where dozens were injured and 10 were killed.
Will Palestinians, the people, the street, join together and stage a sit-in, protest itself, and what is happening to them and this blatant disregard for their future?
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