The PLO between fragmentation and dismantling..Is there another way?!

Written by: Jamal Zaqout
"Bye bye PLO" This was announced by Brzezinski, the former US National Security Adviser during the Carter administration in 1979, and Menachem Begin repeated it after the PLO's steadfastness in Beirut during the Israeli war on the Palestinian political and armed presence in Lebanon in 1982, which, although it led to Until the PLO and the bases of the Palestinian revolution left Lebanon, it was still able to reject the American conditions to join the so-called American settlement train at the time. We remember how the Palestinian leader Abu Ammar answered at the time when a journalist asked him, "Where are you going, Abu Ammar?" Arafat replied, "To Palestine."

This answer and that force had its costs, which must be paid through attempts to contain the PLO, which it was impossible to succeed in without working to tear it apart and weaken it, in preparation for its subjugation. Despite the correctness of the demands raised by the Democratic Reform Movement in the Fatah movement at the time, it quickly slid into a bloody schism in which a number of Arab regimes became involved, and it culminated in attempts to harm the organization’s legitimacy and status, until the arduous dialogue between the Democratic Alliance and the Fatah movement resulted in the completion of the Aden Agreement. -Algeria and the convening of the National Council in Algiers "April 1987", a step that paved the way for mobilizing the energies of the Palestinian people and the outbreak of the great Palestinian uprising "December 1987".

The occasion of this urgent narration is the unprecedented state of weakness and disintegration of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the keenness of its influential members to maintain the state of impotence, and the limitation of its role to sealing the representation that no longer has a serious impact on the political reality for various reasons, the most important of which is the failure of betting on the organization with all its credit. In the course of the Oslo settlement, without achieving anything but the expansion of the fragmentation of the organization’s reality and the marginalization of its position behind the authority, which also began to erode, especially after the Hamas coup in 2007.

The failure of the Oslo process as a transitional phase to end the occupation and enable the Palestinian people to determine their own destiny, without the forces of the Liberation Organization striving to revise this path, formed and continues to constitute the infrastructure for the state of division that deepens and opens the gates of hell for further dismantling the organization, which has turned into a mere tool in The hand of the Palestinian presidency to proceed with the process of engineering the Palestinian situation away from the popular will, and instead of national consensus with rising political and social forces in political life on a vision outside the Oslo track, the PLO restores its broad, pluralistic coalition character as a national front to lead the stage of national liberation.

This fragile and eroding reality revitalizes and revives attempts to create alternatives and control the organization, a strategy that has never disappeared from the agenda of Hamas, or proceeded with its dismantling and erasure, as Israel has sought throughout the past era.

The fundamental question facing Palestinian patriots, in light of the overthrow of Fatah pluralism, the disappearance of what is known as democratic forces, and the alignment of most of its components on both sides of the division, is how to build an independent democratic national movement that contributes to saving the national cause, because any attempt does not distance itself from the state of division and restore Focusing its mission on building a historical popular bloc, which risks slipping towards further fragmentation of the “disintegrated and eroded state of the organization,” rather than repairing it, restoring its unity, or even rebuilding it.

And so that the good intentions of reviving the PLO do not turn, the road to hell has always been a bed of roses, even if it was adorned with slogans of democratizing the organization, merely as a new tool for division and warfare against "eroded legitimacy"; The true guarantor of this historical process calls for building a broad national democratic current that is open to all patriots who believe in political and intellectual pluralism in the face of policies of hegemony, monopoly of power, and exclusivity in the national political and struggle decision, and they seek to end division and restore unity in the face of occupation.

Building the popular bloc that pressures to stop the policy of dismantling the organization cannot be successful by siding with either side of the divisive scene, but rather by unifying the efforts of the components of that popular bloc away from the factional diseases that aborted attempts to build a democratic assembly, and undermined the efforts of independent democratic patriots to build an independent democratic national movement. The invitation to the founding conference of the Independent Democratic Current was canceled at the last moment.

The survival of the state of the Liberation Organization and the authority as it is of the disintegration and erosion of its social incubator needs careful and calm treatment, not the security fist to prevent and suppress jurisprudence and initiatives, nor leaps in the vacuum of the divisive atmosphere, and perhaps the first step that constitutes the direction of the main blow to rebuild the Liberation Organization on democratic foundations, It begins with continuous pressure by the real affected by the division and its national, economic and social consequences, especially youth, women and other marginalized groups, to agree to form a government of national unity, and not colluding to write off this pivotal step, as happened in the recent Algerian dialogue, and so that the highest priority of this government is concentrated in Providing all means of popular and national steadfastness in the face of the plans of the fascist right-wing government, and establishing an environment and internal political and security climates that pave the way for holding general presidential and legislative elections, and open the way towards the election of “and consensus where it cannot be held” a new National Council, to rebuild the organization and comprehensive national unity within its framework, Including all gatherings of the Palestinian people in all places of their presence on the basis of absolute adherence to the right to self-determination and the rules of international law and United Nations resolutions related to the Palestinian cause, and focus the general national effort on rebuilding the identity and the unifying national institution in the face of the Israeli strategy of liquidation, expulsion and displacement.