Israel and the Authority... and the Lions' Den

Written by: Nabil Amr

While I was contemplating the choice of the subject of my article, I listened to the first news broadcast on the Israeli radio, which was formulated and read in the manner that we have now come the following...
“A joint force from all the Israeli security services managed to arrest one of the prominent activists in the new Palestinian formation... the lions' den.”
Since the start of the violent events that took place initially in the Jenin camp and spread to Nablus and the north, and expanded to include the center and the south, the term “the lions’ den” was widely circulated, to the extent that it overshadowed, by what was said about it, the reunion dialogues that took place in Algeria; What made this new formation the most important talk at the level of public opinion, even if it was said as a joke that it referred the PLO factions to retirement.
One of the characteristics deduced from this new formation is that it is a primary organizational embodiment of what Israel used to call the unruly wolves, who were carrying out impressive military operations but on their own, as they are not an extension of an organized traditional formation, and they are not united by belonging to a specific faction, which put the Israeli security services with all their arms in a perplexed As there are no specific references to be contacted or talked with to address and contain the phenomenon. What added to the Israeli bewilderment, and the inability of its octopus apparatus to herald a decisive achievement in this regard, is that what were called runaway wolves have evolved into an organized formation founded on an idea. The security and political vacuum in the West Bank and Jerusalem constituted a favorable incubator that provided him with popularity unavailable to any traditional faction.
An incubator like this scares Israel; As it is an active catalyst for the development of formation and multiply its effectiveness, even through imitation and simulation.
The vacuum produced an intermittent state of war of varying intensity between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The Israeli invasions continue and produce a horrific abuse in the lives of the Palestinians. Major cities like Nablus are under siege, and a large camp like Shuafat is inside a tight cordon that makes entry and exit a torment from which no one escapes. And the place that is not besieged and whose entrances and exits are not closed throughout the West Bank; Day and night raids are capable of turning life there into a continuous hell.
Such a situation produces a reaction that makes the Israeli endeavor to eradicate it a kind of running after a mirage, and this is what many of Israel's generals, intellectuals, and public opinion makers have acknowledged, who do not stop reminding the political leadership that continuing to rule another people will not result in anything other than this.
The Israeli inability to end or contain the phenomenon is justified by an excuse worse than guilt. The government, which is subject to harsh criticism for failure and negligence, blames the Palestinian Authority, which does not carry out its “duty” in the context of security coordination, and does not stop saying that it is an authority that has lost control, even though the loss of authority is the simplest justification. Its existence is of the making of Israel itself, which left no way to humiliate the authority and make it lose its prestige in front of its citizens without doing it, and the last thing released in this matter was that the Israeli government sent a strongly worded letter of rebuke to the Palestinian Authority just for the visit of its Prime Minister, Muhammad Shtayyeh, to a funeral home in which there were “terrorists.” !
Israel does not deny its impotence, and the factions profess its neutrality in the current war. Some of them are satisfied with blessing the operations without adopting them. The Authority is caught between the two parts of the millstone, as it is not ready to develop its security performance in a way that satisfies Israel, and in return it multiplies the discontent of its people, nor is it immune from paying the material and moral prices resulting from the Israeli abuse of it and its people.
A situation like this, Israel recognizes what results from it, and what was called the runaway wolves yesterday has become today called the lions' den, and instead of Israel absorbing the decades-old lesson, which is the age of the Palestinian rejection of the occupation and all the approved formulas to perpetuate it, including naive bribes, it continues to pour oil On fire to increase its ignition or to condense its latent embers under the ashes.
The secret word in the Israeli impotence is revealed by a phrase whose adherents in Israel are increasing every day... How long will we continue to rule another people?!

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