Written by: Ahmed Siam
At this time a year ago, in his speech to the United Nations, President Mahmoud Abbas "Abu Mazen" called for an end to the Israeli occupation and withdrawal from the occupied lands of the State of Palestine, including the city of Jerusalem, within a year, expressing his readiness to demarcate the borders and end all final status issues. Threatening, if this is not achieved, to withdraw recognition of the so-called "State of Israel" and declaring that he will go to the International Court of Justice as the highest body in the international judiciary to take a decision on the legitimacy of the occupation's presence on the land of the State of Palestine and the responsibilities of the United Nations and the countries of the world, stressing the importance of adhering to the results What will be issued by the court in this regard, adding that the acceptance and assistance of the international community to implement this initiative based on international legitimacy may save the region from going to an unknown fate.
In light of all this and amid the state of escalation carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and in light of the lack of a political horizon and the occupation’s inclination to military escalation and distancing itself from the path of peace, the signs and burns became clear, as the speech that President Abbas will deliver tomorrow, Friday, before the United Nations in The 77th session of the United Nations, where it is expected that it will be devoid of the letter "S" (we will wait, we will see, we will try, we will work...) and other verbs that have become part of the past tense, so it will move to the present tense and most likely preceded by an order from above A UN body to endorse inalienable Palestinian national rights, including international resolutions, but it is still inside the "drawer". Why?
President Abbas, as it seems, has reached a conviction that has become almost certain that the occupation authorities are not interested in negotiations that will undoubtedly lead to the realization, even if partial - and of course incomplete - of Palestinian rights, even if they do not meet the minimum level of Palestinian aspiration. Nevertheless, the occupation authorities absolutely reject it. It seeks with all its strength and exploitation of what is happening in the world and its investment in order to evade everything that has been agreed upon between all parties, because it does not see the Palestinian side as a partner that enjoys strengths that barricade itself around it and enables it to impose its conditions. International norms, covenants and laws.
And it is entrenched in the terms of agreements that are in its favor while circumventing what is required of it, and this is evident from practices that have recently intensified in the West Bank, where the incursions and assassinations that offer sacrifices to the Israeli elections, and confuse the status of the Palestinian Authority in the areas under its control in form, while implicitly the occupation authorities seek To bring about a state of programmed chaos under control, but it loses what remains of the presence of the Palestinian Authority and strips it of prestige, and the increasing settlement projects that swallow the Palestinian land and lose any hope of establishing a geographically connected Palestinian state and limit the natural growth of the Palestinians.
Perhaps President Abbas departed from the text written in front of him in his last meeting with the German chancellor, where he stopped in response to a question by a journalist about the Jewish Holocaust, and his spontaneous response that Israel is committing fifty holocausts against the Palestinian people, is an explicit expression and conclusive evidence of the president's loss of confidence. On the Israeli side, and to a large extent its supporter without borders, the American side and the international community in general, which uses double standards in its foreign policy, especially when it comes to the so-called "threat to Israel's security" and Palestinian rights, and the absolute disregard for what Israel is doing of practices that threaten the Palestinian, Arab, Islamic, Christian presence in Jerusalem and all of the occupied Palestinian territories.
It seems that President Abbas wants to take advantage of the golden time that is available at present, in terms of an international speech, followed less than two months later by an Arab summit in Algeria, perhaps interspersed with a rapprochement of Palestinian-Palestinian points of view, to announce steps that may be almost fateful and push towards acknowledging Palestinian national rights and limiting indolence with Israeli practices and corner Israel trying to get away from it, and recently enacted laws to kill any idea that might be circulating in the international corridors about canceling past agreements and moving towards "creative" solutions.
And with the blockage of the political horizon, the failure of negotiations until the moment, and the faltering of the two-state solution, which has become almost impossible due to the reality of the situation in which the Palestinian territories live from settlement and Judaization, which may become a Palestinian weapon by which the law of the Jewishness of the state kills, President Abbas may implement his threats and resort to the International Court of Justice to implement The decision to divide Palestine into two Arab and Jewish states, which stipulates the acceptance of Israel’s membership with the establishment of the Arab state, and bears the number 181, and forces Israel to demarcate its borders and gives it about 46 percent of historical Palestine, while the rest is an Arab state, including East Jerusalem.
But is that enough? Will the international community, which is biased towards Israeli politics, deal with double standards with regard to the Palestinian cause? Perhaps the Palestinian leadership, headed by President Abbas, should think seriously this time about a "one-state" solution, not a bi-national state, which I was not enthusiastic about, knowing that Israel absolutely rejects all of the above because it opposes Jewish dreams of expansion, settlement, occupation and substitution. Not to mention the isolationist Jewish culture that refuses to engage with other societies, but the solution of one secular democratic (civil) state in which the Arab peoples (Muslims and Christians) and the Jews coexist under the auspices of a single democratic political system that guarantees equality for all, and the law prevails over all without any regard for religion or color. Or race, etc... It is not a new solution, but it was adopted by the Palestinian revolution since its inception, but it is now considered the most realistic and possible solution to achieve the reality of the situation and the impossible.
Perhaps the two-state solution will bury the Oslo agreement and burn it, preserve the historical unity of Palestine from the sea to the river, and guarantee the return of the displaced refugees from their lands since 1948, thus ending the Israeli dream of a Jewish state and revealing the reality of the Israeli entity based on the policy of apartheid, which is expanding and brutally recently, where a democratic state will be established. One between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, as a state for all its citizens, including Palestinian refugees, in which everyone enjoys equal rights, in addition to freedom and security, and this state is a constitutional democracy, in which the authority to govern and enact laws stems from the will of the people, and all its citizens enjoy equal rights in Electing and running for any position and contributing to the rule of the country.
