A Vision for Renewing the National Project in the Face of the Liquidation Project

It is superfluous to remind that Palestine is experiencing an unprecedented historical turning point, and a decisive stage whose basic features have become completely clear, including:-

First, the decision of the Zionist movement, with all its components, to use decisive force in the conflict with the Palestinian people and to attempt to liquidate their Palestinian cause with all its components, and to complete the project of settler-colonialism throughout Palestine.

Second, the transformation of Israeli racism and the Israeli occupation system towards fascism in goals, methods, and practices.

Third, the alliance of Israeli fascism with contemporary global imperialist fascism, and its attempt to assume the role of a sub-imperialism dominating the entire Middle East and the Arab periphery.

Fourth, the lack of hesitation in using war crimes, including genocide, collective punishment, and ethnic cleansing again.


Fifth, Arab and regional disintegration in the face of the colonial onslaught and Israeli encroachments on the sovereignty and interests of states, from armed aggression against Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran, to conspiring against Egypt, Turkey, and Algeria.

Sixth, the lack of hesitation in violating international law, international humanitarian law, and international resolutions, and even attacking international institutions, foremost among them UNRWA and United Nations institutions, in parallel with waging war on international humanitarian institutions to prevent them from contributing to supporting the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people.

Seventh, the tearing up (and liquidation) of the Oslo Accords, and all international agreements with the Palestinians, and stripping the Palestinian Authority of its authority, powers, and capabilities, and attempting to completely separate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, and the systematic destruction, through settlement and repression, of the possibility of an independent Palestinian state.

All these dangerous facts cannot be dealt with by continuing to cling to the approach of betting on compromises and negotiations that Israel rejects, and the Oslo Accord that is dead, and lingering in the depths of a past that has vanished... Perhaps the most strange thing is the attempt to impose what is called the violated "international legitimacy," and the commitments (and agreements) of the Palestinian Authority, which Israel has undermined, on the rest of the Palestinian forces, and making that commitment a condition for participation in Palestinian elections.

Nor can, on the external level in relations with powers and states, the methods of the past continue to be used in an era where state policies are entirely managed on the basis of interests, and in the near complete absence of ideologies and principles among most states, especially Western ones. Is there clearer evidence of this than the death of international law in Gaza and elsewhere, and the attempts by US President Trump, in partnership with Israel, to abolish the United Nations and its institutions and replace them.

The Palestinian people and their living forces do not have the luxury of waiting, hesitation, or lingering in the methods of the past, as they face an existential threat in the literal sense of the word, and it is not enough to describe the situations and challenges, instead of developing an effective strategic program and action plan to confront them. Despite the enormous losses suffered by the Palestinian people as a result of crimes of genocide and collective punishment, and the desecration and terrorism of the settler-colonists, they possess three elements of strength that their adversaries cannot liquidate.

First, a steadfast human presence on the land of Palestine in all its parts, which is an active presence, stubbornly adhering to the justice of its cause and its rights to return, full freedom, and self-determination.

Second, an unprecedented massive popular solidarity movement, which has made its cause a matter of consensus as the foremost humanitarian issue of our era, inheriting the struggle and humanitarian status of the Algerian struggle against settler-colonialism, the Vietnamese struggle against imperialist aggression, and the South African struggle against racism and apartheid.

Third, a rich history of struggle extending over more than a hundred years against settler-colonialism, occupation, and the racist apartheid system, and a stubborn youth determination to reject humiliation, subservience, and excessive compromises, and boundless devotion to the values of justice, dignity, and national struggle. However, what Palestinians lack is consensus on an alternative national struggle strategy for what has failed, one capable of unifying the Palestinian struggle to change the balance of power in favor of the Palestinian people.

Through various movements, initiatives, and numerous dialogues, the National Initiative has crystallized six elements for a strategy that can be adopted, discussed, developed, or enriched and modified, to be what can be called the six pillars of the Palestinian national struggle for the next stage, and their summary:- First, a strategy to support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their survival on the land of Palestine by all means, and to adopt the components and elements of this steadfastness, starting with supporting the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip in repairing what the occupation has destroyed and rebuilding it, and passing through the West Bank and supporting its people, especially the residents of villages and camps, to stand firm in the face of the colonial onslaught, or by supporting the active Palestinian presence within. The majority of the eight million forcibly displaced Palestinians abroad can play a major role in supporting this steadfastness, and this will be, as in the past, an embodiment of their participation in the national struggle of their people.
Second, resisting the occupation's measures and oppression in all forms, and there is no doubt that the pattern of popular resistance that previously reached its peak in the First Intifada, the ships breaking the siege, and the demonstrations of return and breaking the siege will be the most likely to spread and have an impact in the next stage.

Third, escalating the international solidarity movement, including the boycott movement, imposing sanctions, and divesting investments, which will transform international solidarity into an effective material force in the balance of power.

Fourth, the unity of the struggle of the components of the Palestinian people and their work inside, in the occupied territories, and abroad within a strategy of building, steadfastness, and changing the balance of power in favor of the Palestinian people.

Fifth, penetrating the ranks of the adversary and its supporters in countries and movements, which proves its effectiveness and feasibility, as we have seen from the shifts in American public opinion specifically during the war of extermination on the Gaza Strip.

Sixth, crystallizing a unified national leadership for the struggle on a national, militant, resistance strategy against the liquidation project and the fascist onslaught. This will not be achieved by statements and meetings whose results are not implemented, or fleeting alliances, but by actual participation in the field of struggle and its tasks. It is necessary here to draw lessons from what happened with the marginalization of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and its containment within the components of the Authority that the occupation violated, and after it has been definitively proven impossible to build a real and independent authority under occupation.

What the Palestinian people need from their militants, cadres, and energies is not to be preoccupied again with conflict and division over an authority under occupation, but to rebuild and strengthen their national liberation movement and harness energies for that, and to give young generations hope and a correct and honest vision to engage in the national struggle.