The last day of October of the current year witnesses comprehensive municipal elections for all cities in the entity, including many Arab municipalities inside the country, through the proportional representation method and in accordance with applicable Israeli law. The occupied Jerusalem municipality is also witnessing similar elections on the same date.

Given that these municipal elections have been boycotted by the Palestinian Jerusalemite public for decades, despite calls for encouragement and intimidation from the ruling authority, a group claiming to be concerned for the rights of Palestinian Jerusalemite citizens and exploiting their tragic conditions has called for participation in these upcoming municipal elections to remove the injustices that have been done to them. them, even though they are residents and not citizens according to Israeli law,

This group did not forget to use all the injustice and injustice that occurred to the citizens of East Jerusalem by the bodies of the ruling authorities, whether municipal, political, security, economic, social, or insurance, and in all service sectors, as a justification for their new and old invitation to participate in the upcoming Jerusalem municipal elections. Rather, they went far in pouring blood into this crippled call, and they praised and attracted the print, audio and visual media for this step, as if it were the unique means of saving the suffering people of Jerusalem from their hardships and needs and through which all their problems would be solved.

First, this group ignored that the root of the affliction is the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, its annexation to the entity, and the application of Israeli law to it in clear and gross violation of the rules of international law, and successive UN Security Council resolutions starting with Resolution No. 252 of 1968, and the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly starting with Resolution 2253. of 1967, and the decisions of the International Court of Justice in its fatwa opinion in 2004.

And the decisions of the Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Civil Aviation Organization. Rather, the first resolution that the Israeli authorities violated since the beginning of the 1950s was Resolution No. 181 regarding the partition of Palestine in 1947.

Despite the importance of legal rules in resolving any international dispute, it will take a long time to explain these international rules, so I will just point out them, as they definitely prevent participation or even the thought of participating in municipal elections. I will not list the rules of Palestinian sovereignty over Jerusalem, and not to neglect them. By participating in municipal elections.

I will not suggest that there are no foreign embassies in Jerusalem due to its refusal to be recognized by the international community, and that the electoral participation of the residents of East Jerusalem is a justification for them to move their country’s embassies to Jerusalem. I will not allow Israeli municipal elections because this would mean the end of the Israeli military occupation of the city of Jerusalem. I will not give up the application of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907 to Jerusalem, despite the leniency and complacency of the Red Cross in this area. I will not acknowledge the Israeli annexation of Jerusalem with seventy thousand dunams of its lands on which settlement colonies were built. I will not recognize the Entry into Israel Law of 1954, which applied to the people of Jerusalem and took away their right and the right of their families to live in dignity in their homeland. I will not deny the Palestinians' right to self-determination in Jerusalem and their right to control their wealth and natural resources. I will only find an affirmation of Muslim ownership of Al-Aqsa Mosque, a denial of the Temple and lost religious freedom for Muslims and Christians throughout Jerusalem, and a continuous Arabism over Jerusalem throughout history without interruption except for two invasions, one Crusader and the other Zionist.

This group calling for participation in the Jerusalem municipal elections proposes nonsense, illusions, safety and dreams to entice and titillate the simple people who love a decent life and make them believe that they are close to achieving that. It announces to them that the population in East Jerusalem has reached forty percent, and that this percentage can stop the demolition of homes with the stroke of a pen, and that it can grant permits in the blink of an eye, and they use this percentage as if it were the push of a button, and thus they deceive the Jerusalemite public with an impossible-to-achieve proposition and for special purposes.

Praise be to God, the number of Palestinians in East Jerusalem has doubled, reaching nearly four hundred thousand today, more than five times their population in 1967 according to the first Israeli census, despite all the Israeli obstacles and impediments. However, the Jerusalem Municipality and the relevant Israeli agencies provide minimal services to its residents and collect much of their money and spend it on the rich western part, in a remarkable paradox. Indeed, fines for violating construction in East Jerusalem are not spent on construction in East Jerusalem, but on West Jerusalem. It demolishes their homes, takes away their identities, prevents them from reuniting with their families, prohibits them from building, cars, municipality, and Arnonah, and does not provide the slightest services that are appropriate for them: no organization, streets, schools, cleanliness, gardens, cultural centers, or parking places. Rather, it closes associations, activities, and unions, and confiscates lands. Private property, as if there was a surplus of it, for alleged biblical gardens, to further seize real estate, displace citizens, and raise the prices of building permits. Indeed, if we take a superficial, passing look at Palestinian cities that were attached to the Jerusalem Governorate, such as Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jericho, we will find much greater progress than Jerusalem with all its neighborhoods in all sectors, and with much lower fees.

If we dropped all those legal, practical, and political arguments against municipal elections, and accepted, theoretically and dialectically, heading for municipal elections. What will be the case, especially if the percentage of participants does not exceed five percent, as it was in previous years, but is much less, or at its maximum, ten percent? The Israelis will certainly take advantage of the consensual Palestinian Jerusalemite participation in the municipal elections, and they are skilled at it, to theorize that the Palestinians will give up their legal defenses regarding the Israeli occupation and Jerusalem. They will repeat in international forums that they gave up their right to self-determination and willingly accepted without being forced to live and live under the occupation of the Israeli occupation.

Let us pause and take a look at what happened inside the occupied territories in the elections for the so-called Knesset. Arab society was divided between those who rejected and accepted political participation. Even the Islamic movement was divided between itself, rejecting and supporting, and the national movement was also divided and scattered. That is, the Palestinian citizens are not of one heart - and I apologize - on the political issue. Will the same thing happen here in East Jerusalem, and if not, what is the expected percentage of participants?

If the percentage of participants in the municipal elections is less than ten percent, or even less than that, which is what is expected, and under one list and without dividing or dispersing the Palestinian vote, under an electoral system that relies on proportionality, and under a city controlled by right-wing religious extremists in their many different sects, what will be the share? Jerusalemites from the number of seats they will occupy. Nothing was mentioned, neither the dates of the Levant nor the grapes of Yemen were damaged, and they lost all their defenses. Then it will be said that we have not lost anything and why we have not tried, and they do not know that national rights are not an arena for experiments or games.

Let us take the impossible hypothesis, which is that the Palestine Liberation Organization will come, directly or indirectly, and issue a statement, declaration, or hint, allowing the people of Jerusalem and urging them to participate in the municipal elections. We were preparing a unified list with a high voter rate. Will the Israelis remain silent and accept this matter, especially since you are talking about the so-called “eternal capital of the Jewish people?” Will the elected Jerusalemite winners swear an oath of loyalty to the State of Israel? If we accept all these procedural formalities, how, for God’s sake, can a law like the “Cyminster” law regarding illegal construction be abolished, and we prevent the demolition of homes? Have you not heard and read about the demolition of homes in Arab and Druze towns? Rather, they were not provided with infrastructure services such as electricity and sewage. Look, there are dozens of Arab and Druze municipalities that are legally elected, have municipal councils, legal jurisdictions and budgets and are approved by the Ministry of the Interior, but they have not been able to change one iota of this unfair and discriminatory law in all of the entity’s territories and not limited to Jerusalem. That is, the great matter that you are promoting to enter the electoral arena has lost its meaning and has become impossible, and therefore you have lost the pretext and reason for engaging in it. So be rational and do not dance on the wounds of citizens and do not promote wrong ideas, but rather represent sin itself.

Arab municipalities at home were unable to stop the confiscation of Arab land, despite its scarcity and lack of surplus, and perhaps the events that took place on Land Day are the best expression of that. The Arab municipalities were not given land by the Israel Lands Authority or the Keren to be used to solve the housing crisis among young people, which led them to internal migration. Arab municipalities were not given funds or budgets to carry out municipal activities. Rather, fines were imposed on them and they were sometimes dissolved, and government employees were appointed to manage them. Rather, there are areas in the Negev that are not recognized and inhabited, and for which no municipalities or municipal services have been established. The Arab municipalities were not able to impose their residential sector regulatory plans, but are still fighting for a regulatory share, as all the relevant committees are Jewish through and through. Can the Arab municipalities, despite their knowledge of the secrets of Israeli law and society, impose an educational curriculum specific to the Arab community?

This is a Zionist state, and its pillar and foundation is a racist law based on the Jewishness of the state. After that, any faction can change the Arab reality existing in the entity. Racist laws by design and construction, and there is no hope of changing them. And all of these nonsense and dreams, even if you think well of my hopes for change, are nothing but hallucinations or superfluities negated by the established facts inside, or is there something behind the mound and you will return with hidden nostalgia because the issue has been consumed and consumed!!!

Although the conclusions have become completely clear, attempts to justify the signing 30 years ago are still present, either through the saying (it was not possible to be better than it was) or the saying (self-preservation after the changes of the early nineties). As for the sentence that gained a large presence in the defense propaganda Regarding the signature, it is (there is no alternative), knowing that the alternative was present strongly (the popular uprising in 1987) and was aborted by carrying the bags and heading to Madrid and then for the secret negotiations in Oslo. They aborted the alternative and then said: Where is the alternative? The aim of the article is not to discuss and refute these statements/sentences, but it can quickly be said: Self-preservation does not mean rejecting resistance, giving up 78% of our homeland, recognizing the legitimacy of the Zionist entity, and creating a rift in the unity of the people, because what will be left of (the self) after all of this? ? Unless what is meant by “themselves” is “themselves” of the dominant leadership elites who have come to fear for their existence, privileges, and political influence, especially with the rise of the power of the Islamic movement in the early 1990s.

However, those who follow the justification approach will have nothing to say about the results of the past thirty years because they are disastrous by all standards, and it is not possible to turn away from them and deny them as if they do not exist. In terms of the decline in the status of the national cause globally, which we achieved through the sacrifices of the resistance and our people, the massive increase in the number of settlers in Jerusalem and the West Bank until it exceeded 750 thousand settlers, the dull and unaccounted weight of the Palestinian leadership in the political movement, the (economy) subordinate and attached to the entity’s economy, the economic and political structures. The security created by Oslo, which has a functional role in serving the Zionist occupier, is the fragmentation of the Palestinian people, the official approval of the division of its unified political geography, the destruction of its unity, and many other things that cannot be denied.

Despite all this, the organisation’s institutions, which are supposed to represent it historically, such as the National and Central Councils and the Executive Committee, did not stop just to review this approach that brought our people to this position, even with minimal discussion. On the contrary, over the course of 30 years, despite the disastrous results, the same structures and the same approach were reproduced. That is, everything that led us to these results.

At the structural level
The negotiation was secret, carried out by five leaders behind the back of the organization’s institutions, and even behind the back of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement. Then, after preparing everything, including the signature, the National Council was called after (shuffling) its membership by adding hundreds of new members to ensure the result, and they were asked to Vote. After that, it can be said that the organization’s institutions have entered the stage of disintegration, to the point of non-existence. They are not actually present in the political decision, which continues to be the decision of a team that does not exceed the fingers of one hand, and even if any of the organization’s institutions takes a decision, it will throw ashes in the eyes to absorb popular anger. Of the type (withdrawal of recognition of Israel) or (cessation of security coordination), it has become known that it was ink on paper and was not implemented, as if it never existed in the first place. It is the same approach: say what you want and do what I want.

It can be said that in exchange for the Zionists' recognition of the organization as a legitimate representative, the organization in return effectively erased itself as a representative when it erased the National Charter, recognized the legitimacy of the Zionist entity, and renounced violence, so there is no problem then for the Zionists to officially recognize it and act with it as if it does not actually exist, which it is.

The most miserable result on this level is that the institution of authority has replaced the institution of the organization, and the institution of authority is formally and effectively, and in reality as expressed by the Oslo Accords: the authority of limited administrative self-rule, and it does not matter here what names the authority calls itself, what is important is who has the decision and the hand. The tallest in the end, and the story of the dispute over the title of President or (Chairman) is well known. The effects of this replacement can be felt in the marginalization of the 7 million Palestinians in the diaspora. With the disintegration of the organization’s institution, these millions no longer have an institution that expresses them, whether on the national, social, or daily service levels. The natural result was the initiative to establish national structures that would carry out this necessary task in the absence of the organization. However, the Oslo Authority institution is attacking these initiators and questioning their patriotism.

A pattern of substitution was achieved over the course of thirty years: the institution of limited administrative self-government replaced the institution of the organization, while a narrow team replaced the institution of the administrative government authority. They came into being as a narrow team and are now also leading the stage as a narrow team. Nothing has changed. The same team, and the same decision-making mechanisms, have been reproduced by reproducing the same dismantled structures, which indicates a clear approach to the desire to liquidate what expresses a phase that has passed and ended, according to the Oslo team.

In terms of approach
This is what the political approach based on negotiation has brought us to, and nothing but negotiation. As for talking about (popular resistance), it is only intended as a required Oslo-based alternative to armed resistance, knowing that the armed Palestinian resistance now is popular with the masses rallying around it, and the proponents of this approach do not hide it. Their position is explicitly declared (peaceful resistance).

It is not correct to consider that the negotiation approach did not achieve anything, as is sometimes said as a critical stance towards this approach. Rather, it achieved a lot: it destroyed the PLO and its institutions, gave the Zionist entity everything and only took power with a functional security role, and created the historical division between the ranks and forces of our people, and put the issue Nationalism is isolated from the agendas of international attention. This is what he achieved, and despite the negativity and disastrousness of what was achieved as a result of this approach, he succeeded, consciously or not, in achieving everything that the Zionist entity aspires to. It is no wonder that Peres considers the Oslo Accords to be the second historical achievement after the establishment of their state. He achieved their second historic achievement and a national catastrophe for us.

This leadership is still betting on the same approach after 30 years of failure, with a strange insistence that only reflects a lack of will. At one time, they bet on reviving the Arab initiative, which is considered a gateway to an Arab demarcation by recognizing the entity and public normalization with it, and at another time on the success of an Israeli team, such as Bild and Gantz, that recognizes it as a negotiating team, and this team responds that there is no Palestinian party, and at another time they bet on Trump’s departure and the arrival of Biden, and the latter responds to them. He licked all his promises before the elections: re-moving the embassy, opening the organization’s offices in America, reviving negotiations, and now all the betting, running, and counting is behind getting some crumbs from the Saudi-Israeli public normalization deal that America seeks, crumbs of the type: redisbursing the Saudi grant, disbursing the money. Detained from the Zionists, reviving political negotiations, transferring lands from Area C to Area B, and other demands that fall within the scope of pleading to a leadership that has lost any influence. However, the sources confirm the Americans’ position: Your demands are exaggerated and cannot be achieved, while the Zionist sources point to the slim hopes of reaching public normalization as a result of the Zionists’ rejection of Saudi demands for advanced weapons and a peaceful nuclear program.

For 30 years, this leadership has not given up its insistence on the same negotiating approach that achieved everything for them and caused catastrophic damage to our national cause, until, in detail, their negotiating approach became nothing more than a patronizing approach that reflects weakness and defeat, not the will to challenge and resist. Once again: nothing has changed. The same approach is reproduced repeatedly and achieves only the achievements it achieved for the Zionists and the disasters it achieved for us.

And yet, despite all of that, the alternative to all of this exists on the ground and inspires optimism and points to the right path. Unified structures of resistance are established on the ground, and the resistance is digging the road with strength and solidity, and with a mass rally that the Zionist occupation has not succeeded in dismantling, and the conflict is returning to its reality after it was distorted by the entire Oslo phase, and the world. He returned to see the spirit and determination of our people to resist. The negotiation approach in Oued, the resistance approach in Oued, the institution of the disintegrated organization in Oued, and the structures of resistance in Oued. 30 years after Oslo: Our people are exercising on the ground their alternative option to Oslo.

It is a grave mistake in the policy of the Zionist entity to underestimate its arrogance. Settlement is not only a temporary policy, but rather a plan that Smotrich is quietly implementing. It seems that Israel is rushing time to build more population units in the West Bank, especially in the areas adjacent to the city of Jerusalem. It was recently announced that approximately 600 housing units will be built in Abu Dis, in order to connect the American Street to the Abu Ghneim settlement, but it is also important not to underestimate the construction and paving of bypass roads as a primary goal, firstly, feeding the settlements, and secondly, and this is the most dangerous aspect of all, is dividing the West Bank. The West was divided into isolated areas and small cantons, to prevent communication between the Palestinian regions, and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. These roads, as a colonial structure, contributed to the perpetuation of the dismantling and separation of everything Palestinian, demographically and geographically, and perpetuated the dominance and continuity of Israeli colonialism, which exploited the bypass roads as a colonial tool that contributed to the process of Annexing Palestinian lands and wiping out the Palestinian population. To this day, the construction of Israeli bypass roads in the occupied West Bank (about 938 km in length) has resulted in the confiscation and destruction of thousands of Palestinian dunams, most of which are agricultural lands, for the same purpose.

At that dangerous juncture in the history of Palestine, it should be noted that during the years of Israeli occupation, successive Israeli governments relied on two goals, sometimes contradictory to each other, namely settlement expansion and geographical separation. What is clear from the establishment of settlements is to establish a border belt of settlements parallel to the armistice line, which is primarily a defensive strategic depth, in addition to absorbing and bringing in more Jewish immigrants from the world.

The most dangerous thing about this is that settlement is the cornerstone of Zionist thought, and the basis that the occupation authorities rely on to impose an occupation fait accompli on their successive military expansions. That is, Israeli settlement differs from the forms of colonial settlement that the world has known in the modern era because it is based in justifying its existence on a pragmatic philosophy and religious claim. It adopts a de facto policy supported by military force.

The security wall built by the occupation government in 1994 during the era of Yitzhak Rabin embodies the policy of apartheid pursued by successive Zionist governments. This wall caused great problems for the Palestinian people in terms of dispersing the Palestinian population to strike at their social fabric, in addition to confiscating more lands for the purpose of erecting the wall. Which was built after the outbreak of the second intifada to limit operations within the entity.

It is no exaggeration to say that, throughout the period of the conflict, the form, means and goal of settlement were described as Zionism in action. The construction of settlements is not limited to the function of work alone, but rather it prepares them for the establishment of Zionist settlements on the ruins of Palestinian cities and villages, and the displacement of the original population, as happened after the Nakba in 1948, but today settlement in the West Bank is completely different, as the occupation intends to confiscate agricultural lands and build on them, and build roads, And the establishment of parks and training camps, and this is also at the expense of pastures and agricultural fields from which the Palestinian lives in various areas of the West Bank. In the Jordan Valley, the occupation confiscated approximately 4,000 dunams, which are fertile lands that are considered the basket of the West Bank, and turned these lands into a source of income for the occupation government.

However, the great disease associated with settlement is through the Judaization of the West Bank, and the occupation aims to increase the size of settlements there and in Jerusalem, in order to create a pure environment, as they describe it, which is a homogeneous Jewish society, that is, the search for achieving the Jewish state, because the increasing pace of settlement in the recent period Especially after the formation of the largest extremist government during the era of the entity, which was to achieve what was stipulated in the Talmud and the Torah, the hope of finding a basis to stop settlement with this government remains slim, and this era is different from the previous governments that were formed before that, the difference is that the previous governments were evasive and frozen. Settlement and it was recorded that it evacuated some random settlement blocs, but this was like a show in front of the world.

It can be asserted that the establishment of settlements in all its branches of international law - in addition to the transfer of the population of occupied countries to the occupied territory - contradicts all international principles and the United Nations Charter (the Fourth Geneva Convention on the Laws of War in 1949). The Charter details a long series of prohibitions imposed on the occupying force.

The essence of the Charter in this case is: “The occupier is prohibited from settling his population in the occupied territories.” However, this does not fall on deaf ears among the occupier, and he still rejects all initiatives calling for the resumption of negotiations by various means. It is true that there is a difference between the Israeli government in style and method, but the settlement goal unites them, which is to control the West Bank and Judaize it.

The Palestinians did not achieve any of their aspirations without struggle and sacrifices. In the first phase of their struggle outside Palestine, they paid heavy prices until they: 1- They regained their national identity, which had been scattered, scattered with different sub-identities, 2- Recognition of their common representation through a unified representative institution, which is the PLO, 3- Recognition of their rights: the right of return in accordance with Resolution 194, and their right to a state in accordance with Resolution 181, and accordingly all decisions were issued that went beyond Resolution 302, which included the formation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

That is, the Palestinian struggle transformed the Palestinian issue from a humanitarian issue represented by caring for refugees, which was transformed into a political issue, related to a people looking towards return and a state, and that was the outcome of the struggle and its introduction outside Palestine.

After leaving Beirut, following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the attention and national program of the Palestinian leadership shifted towards work, organization and struggle inside Palestine, where this resulted in the explosion of the first popular uprising in 1987, which was mostly peaceful in nature through demonstrations and protests against the occupation, and clashes with the colonial forces. The activities of the first intifada and its sacrifices forced the Israeli-American acknowledgment and recognition of the three titles: 1- The Palestinian people, 2- The Liberation Organization, 3- The legitimate political rights of the Palestinian people, and accordingly a series of transformations took place on the ground and the transfer of the Palestinian issue from exile to the homeland, and a series of withdrawals. Israeli control of the majority of Palestinian cities, with the exception of Jerusalem and Hebron.

The Camp David negotiations under American auspices in July 2000 failed and did not achieve the completion of the required steps towards Israeli withdrawal and the removal of settlements. Following the failure of the negotiations with the Jews of Barak under the auspices of US President Clinton, the second intifada exploded in 2000, after President Yasser Arafat allied with Ahmed Yassin. The leader and founder of Hamas, and the implementation of painful operations against the Israelis, forced Sharon to leave the Gaza Strip and depart from it, after dismantling the settlements and removing the bases of the occupation army.

In the three struggle stations: 1- Outside Palestine, 2- The First Intifada, 3- The Second Intifada, the Palestinians did not achieve status or gain, due to the blackness of their eyes, the justice of their cause, or the good morals of the colony and its leaders, or from its masters and allies. Rather, the Palestinians achieved serious, real gains. Tangible as a result of their struggle and sacrifices.

The path of negotiations alone as a means of restoring the rights of the Palestinian people failed and failed, because the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations were not supported by combat levers that would force the Israelis to retreat and recede, or any new withdrawal. Rather, the absence of combative action led to a major and unprecedented settlement shift, which is the result of security coordination between Ramallah and Tel Aviv, and the security truce between Gaza and Tel Aviv, and the two wings of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, led by Fatah, and the Authority in Gaza, led by Hamas, turned into prisoners of the choices of the Israeli colony, and accept the financial crumbs and services that the colony provides to the two parties in Ramallah and Gaza.

The individual struggle, no matter how great its sacrifices and valor, will not give the desired benefit, without the real participation of Fatah, Hamas and the rest of the national factions, an end to the policy of security coordination by the Ramallah authority, and a security calm by the Gaza authority.

The Zionist entity incites Washington and the West against President Abu Mazen, accusing him of anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and incitement to violence, after thirty years of partnership in a political settlement process under the title (Oslo Accords), which the president was the architect of and is still defending, even though it was not mentioned in the president’s speech before the council. Revolutionary or in any of his speeches, including Germany’s speech, there is evidence of this, and everything that the president mentioned are historical facts about the nature of the Jews and their relationship with the societies in which they lived, documented in all languages. Indeed, the entity state is the one that practices racism and terrorism, and the Jewish and Zionist doctrine is full of vocabulary. Racism, hatred of Gentiles, and incitement to kill them.

 Why does a right-wing racist government behave this way?

Although, in our opinion, it was not necessary for the president to address the Jewish issue in a conference dedicated to discussing the conditions of the Fatah movement and the great challenges facing the national issue, so that Israel would not exploit the matter and divert attention from its crimes and terrorism, and for him to abandon talking and writing about this important topic that exposes the falsity of all narratives and history. The alleged Jew of intellectuals, writers, Palestinian research centers, and the president’s advisors and those around him. However, since the issue has been opened, it is required of every Palestinian patriot to stand by the president in the face of the campaign of Zionist lies, which unfortunately has been accompanied by Western governments that know that President Abu Mazen speaks facts, but they Countries that do not want anyone to talk about their historical role in the tragedy of the Jews, even before the emergence of Nazism.

What worries Israel, arouses its anger, and pushes it to antagonize the president is the opposite of what it claims. What worries the entity state is the president’s insistence on peace, renunciation of violence, and his adherence to international legitimacy and its decisions. It is true that only emphasizing the discourse of international legitimacy and calling for peace will not restore our legitimate rights to us, but this discourse exposes racism. Israel and its hostility to peace and international legitimacy, a speech that began to influence global public opinion, which began to discover the truth about this entity and demanded its boycott.

What is happening with Abu Mazen happened with President Abu Ammar when Israel accused him of terrorism and incitement to violence, so it stormed the West Bank, besieged the president in the district, and then killed him with poison.

It is true that Abu Ammar wanted to combine diplomatic work with the armed resistance, but the entity state killed him not only because of his return to armed work, but also because of his insistence on peace, the political settlement, and the implementation of international legitimacy resolutions and the Oslo Accords. Zionism rejects all of that completely and in detail, and it is the one that assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, the most important leader. A Zionist politician and military man because he signed the Oslo Accords and searched for a formula for peace with the Palestinians, even if it was a maneuver imposed by American pressure.

What threatens and terrifies the Zionist entity is not only the Palestinian military action, despite its Palestinian importance if it is part of a comprehensive national strategy to preserve the vitality of the issue and keep the enemy in a state of tension and instability, nor the axis of resistance and the alleged Iranian nuclear program, but the exposure of the falsity of the Zionist narrative and the spread of the Palestinian narrative through... The world, exposing the terrorist and racist practices of a country that claims to be the oasis of democracy in the Middle East, and emphasizing a just peace that restores the Palestinians’ rights.

For the Jews, especially the Zionists and the extreme right, a good Palestinian is a dead Palestinian, while a living Palestinian is an enemy, whether he is a fighter, a mujahideen, or a pacifist. National, secular, or Islamic, as Israel assassinated leaders and members of all political orientations, all of them were Palestinian enemies to it, from Abu Youssef al-Najjar, Kamal Adwan, Abu Jihad, and Abu Ammar to Ghassan Kanafani, Abu Ali Mustafa, al-Shaqaqi, al-Rantisi, Siam, Sheikh Yassin, Abu al-Atta, etc.

Therefore, despite the differences between leader Abu Ammar and President Abu Mazen and the apparent difference between the Arafati approach and the Abbasid approach in dealing with the political settlement process, it is not unlikely that the fate of Abu Mazen will be the same as the fate of Abu Ammar, but in a different way. It will be a political liquidation, not a physical one.

Because the culture of suspicion and lack of trust in the political class is widespread in society, some may claim that the president’s aim was to include the Jewish issue in his speech to appear as a national hero and draw attention away from the criticisms directed at him, the authority, its approach, etc.

If we go back a little to the past, we will find the same approach of skepticism, and even accusations of treason and negligence, were directed at Commander Abu Ammar even while he was besieged in the district, and by almost the same parties that are now suspicious of President Mahmoud Abbas. Those who doubted Abu Ammar did not change their minds until after Israel assassinated him, so they were at the head of the They walked at his funeral and to this day they still commemorate his memory, perhaps because they were not able to do more for the national cause than Al-Ikhtiyar did, may God have mercy on him!

A pedantic Israeli wrote an article enumerating Israel's gains after the Oslo Accords, summarizing that by saying that Israel advanced economically, opened up to the world, got rid of the burden of occupation, and reduced the importance and centrality of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and that the Oslo Accords were peace and relief for Israel, contrary to all opinions that It was launched by the Israeli right at the time, and that article was accompanied by secret documents published about the nature of the dialogues between Israeli labor leaders at the time, as they wanted from the Oslo Accords exactly what is in place now, that is, redefining the occupation so that it lasts forever and ending the idea of a Palestinian state. And besieging the Palestinian and domesticating him through both soft and rough means.

It seemed as if Israel had achieved what it wanted and that it had defeated us several times, once with this agreement, which it made a tool for subjugation, subjugation and control, and a second time by dismantling the Palestinians into multiple groups geographically and legally, and a third time with geographical and political division, and a fourth time with the ability to We crossed over or crossed through us into the Arab world, but despite all that, despite our performance, despite our confusion, and despite our contradictions, did Israel lose with the Oslo Accords as well?

In my opinion, Israel also lost on the tactical and strategic levels, as follows:
First: Israel killed forever the idea of moderation, the idea of settlement, and the idea of negotiation because Palestinian and Arab moderation did not lead to satisfactory solutions or even defensible results.

Second: During the thirty years of the agreement, Israel turned into a brutal, violent, and aggressive entity that ended in fascism, meaning that everything that Israel claims regarding peace projects and trains is a camouflage of a destructive and desolate image of this entity. Israeli brutality threatens the Israeli political system. The same, as there are forces that want to hijack the regime for their own benefit and to become dependent on power and possess it as an expression of the height of fascism.

Third: During the course of thirty years, Israel also lost security and safety, meaning that the Oslo Accords did not grant Israel personal or collective security at all.

Fourth: The incomplete Oslo Accord, which did not achieve peace, exempted Israel for a very long time from searching for solutions other than renewing the security measures that prompted the Palestinians and others to prepare and engage. Therefore, Oslo increased the risks and did not reduce them.

Fifth: Over the course of thirty years, Israel has created a generation of Palestinian people who did not and will never see in it anything except the brutal occupier with whom no dialogue is possible. That is, Israel has not been able to rise to the moral level capable of addressing the Palestinians as human beings. Rather, it confirms the prevailing colonial view of considering them a security problem or Demographics: Thus, the Oslo Accords did not provide any horizon.

Sixth: In my opinion, everything that Israel Katz mentioned and Israel’s leadership of the region and control of its trade routes to establish what he called security, peace and development does not mean anything at all thirty years after the Oslo Accords, because every solution does not guarantee or herald an end to the occupation and the establishment of the state. The Palestinian Authority is just another bypass road that leads to nothing, and Israel is skilled at building bypass roads that turn over time into ordinary dusty roads with many bumps and bumps that lead to nothing.

Exactly thirty years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, we have the right not only to evaluate that experience, which left profound effects on the Palestinian situation, but also to evaluate the starting points, intellectual motives, and visions that led to the Oslo approach, which is still continuing, forming today a point of contention. Fundamentalism in the Palestinian arena.

Perhaps one of the problems with the Palestinian situation is that the forces practicing the Oslo approach avoid (or refuse) to engage in a serious intellectual or political debate about the correctness or safety of this approach, but rather are content to hide behind one pretext, which is “realism” in dealing with a difficult and complex political situation.

The Oslo Accords were a great trap cleverly set up by the Zionist movement and the official Palestinian leadership, with the aim of absorbing the results of the first intifada, which changed the balance of power on the ground, and forced Israel to enter into negotiations with the Palestinian side, and to create a deep rift in the Palestinian arena, and buy time to perpetuate the occupation, expand settlement, and build The apartheid system is racist, its purpose is to liquidate the rights of the Palestinian people, and to extract Palestinian, Arab and international legitimacy for the Zionist colonial settlement project.

The Palestinian side committed seven strategic mistakes in the Oslo negotiations and agreement:

First, signing the agreement without requiring a halt to settlement activity, as was insisted by the official Palestinian delegation in Washington, which had the secret Oslo negotiations conducted behind its back, without its knowledge, and without consulting it.

This mistake was considered the greatest sin of that agreement, and the conclusive evidence of this is the increase in the number of colonial settlers from 121 thousand when the agreement was signed to 750 thousand today. They have 14 members in the Israeli Knesset and have come to represent a fascist political force that has a decisive role in the Israeli government led by the fascists Smotrich and Ben. Abundant.

Secondly, the lack of equality between the two sides, as the Palestine Liberation Organization recognized Israel and its right to exist in exchange for merely recognizing the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians. Rather, the Palestinian side accepted the labeling of its national struggle and armed resistance as terrorism, and pledged to abandon it, and accepted recognition of Israel without specifying its borders, and without Any guarantees of the right of return for Palestinian refugees who were displaced from their homes through the Nakba and brutal massacres.

Third, the agreement was partly transitional without specifying the final result of ending the occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state. Rather, it included an acceptance to make fundamental issues, such as refugees, the right of return, Jerusalem, borders, illegal settlement, and the waters of the occupied territories, disputed issues, and the six years turned into ending The negotiations lasted for thirty years, and after Israel guaranteed that the 48 Israeli-decided lands graduated from considering the occupied lands as disputed lands upon signing the agreement, to Jewish lands reserved for the Jews, and then approved the Jewish State Law, which considered the right to self-determination in the entire historical land of the Palestinians, Which they call the Land of Israel, restricted to Jews only.

Israeli governments have graduated from procrastinating negotiations for many years, as former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir promised, to stopping them completely since 2014, and claiming that there is no Palestinian partner.

Thus, through settlement expansion, Israel robbed the land and took away, through the political process, the only thing it granted to the leadership of the PLO in the Oslo Accords, which is its right to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians.

Fourth, one of the biggest mistakes was accepting the division of the occupied territories into divisions “A, B, and C.” This allowed Israel to isolate 62% of the West Bank, called Area C, and allocate it entirely to settlement expansion, and to divide the remainder into 224 ghettos isolated by barriers, and Settlements, the wall, and racist roads forbidden to Palestinians.

Fifthly, accepting the doctrine and principle of security coordination with the occupation authorities, which placed the authority and official leadership in a dilemma of contradiction and conflict with its people and with the Palestinian resistance forces.

Sixth, the Oslo Accord created fragmentation of the Palestinian people and a deep political rift and division in the Palestinian arena. It became the basis for many other divisions, such as the division between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and between the Fatah and Hamas movements, but the most dangerous was creating a deep rift between the components of the Palestinian people inside (the 1948 territories) and abroad and the occupied territories.

Seventh, the Oslo Accords opened the door wide for Arab and international normalization with the occupying entity and apartheid.

From an intellectual standpoint, the Oslo approach (and agreement) was built on three illusions: the illusion of a compromise solution with the Zionist movement, the illusion of a two-state solution as an alternative to the original Palestinian strategic goal of establishing a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine, and the illusion of the American role in achieving those solutions. They are all illusions that thirty years have proven to be false.

If the belief in the illusion of a compromise solution with the Zionist movement was justified as an argument when the Oslo Accords were signed as a result of international pressure and the difficult circumstances that the Palestine Liberation Organization was experiencing, then continuing to adhere to it and betting on the negotiation approach, after all these years, and after everything the movement did Zionism and the rulers of Israel, even those who supported the Oslo Accords, including the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the martyr Yasser Arafat, and the claim that there is no Palestinian partner, represents an unforgivable sin, and has no justification at all.

Israeli operations after "Oslo"

Israel systematically and premeditatedly carried out six operations after the signing of the Oslo Accords, which are:

1) Complete separation of Gaza and the West Bank.

2) Separating Jerusalem from the West Bank and the rest of the occupied territories.

3) Deepening and expanding settlement without stopping, with the aim of devouring, Judaizing and annexing the West Bank, and transforming it from a Palestinian environment in which there are strange settlement objects, into an Israeli settlement environment within which Palestinian cities and villages are isolated as foreign objects.

4) Blockade, economic strangulation, and absolute control over land, water, borders, natural resources, airspace, and electromagnetic space.

5) Continuous pressure on the Palestinian Authority to force it to separate from the national liberation movement, contain the Palestine Liberation Organization within it, and use all means of local and international pressure to transform it into a security agent for the occupation.

6) Dismembering the Palestinian territories and turning them into isolated ghettos, and establishing the racist apartheid system as a tool for coexistence with the Palestinian demographic reality that it could not abolish, even though it does not stop dreaming of ending it through new ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.

These six operations undermined the remaining prospects for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, as they were used to kill what was called the “two-state solution,” in full view of an international community biased toward Israel, which continues to talk about the “two-state solution” without exerting any actual pressure to stop the Zionist settlement that is destroying... That's the solution.

Was the Oslo Accord a success or a failure?

The answer is that it was a failure and frustration for the Palestinian side, and a genius success for the Zionist movement because it allowed it to continue the occupation and perpetuate the apartheid system without costs, but rather with profits, the last of which was the shameful normalization with the Arab environment.

No one can deny that rational Palestinian voices, wise nationalism, and Palestinian forces warned against that agreement when it was signed, and warned against continuing with it, most notably the voices of Haider Abdel Shafi, Edward Said, and many others. Nor can anyone deny that the overwhelming majority of the sons and daughters of the Palestinian people today oppose not only the Oslo Agreement, but also the continuing Oslo approach, including some who were taken by illusions of the expected peace, and then woke up to the pain of bitter reality.

The first to oppose this approach was the generation of Palestinian youth that was born after the signing of the agreement, and today is at the forefront of the valiant Palestinian resistance to the injustice of the occupation and the brutality of racial discrimination.

What is required is Palestinian

Today, we cannot turn back the wheel of history and cancel the sin of Oslo, even if we wish to do so, but we can demand an end to it, stop the approach that led to that sin, and replace it with a Palestinian national strategy of resistance struggle that reunites the energies of the Palestinian people and its components, and reformulates its national program and vision to include Not only ending the occupation and the return of all Palestinian refugees whose cause was marginalized, but also overthrowing the entire racist apartheid system and the entire settler-colonial project in all of historic Palestine, and retracting all the free concessions that were made to the Zionist movement in exchange for nothing, except the satisfaction of the interests of a small minority at the expense of Its people, meeting the bureaucratic needs of institutions that have become alienated from it, and sending one clear message to the entire world, that the Palestinians will not accept the humiliation of enslavement to the occupation and the apartheid system, and that the only alternative to the reality of a single apartheid state is a single democratic state in which the people of Palestine realize their right to complete freedom. Dignity and self-determination.

The Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs Authority reported today, Thursday, that the health conditions of the striking prisoners, Maher Al-Akhras and Kayed Al-Fasfous, are very worrying, and that the occupation authorities continue to detain them in harsh detention conditions, and are taking a number of tormenting measures against them with the aim of breaking their will and launching an open hunger strike.

The Commission said: “The prisoner Maher Al-Akhras (52 years old) from the town of Silat Al-Dhahr, Jenin Governorate, has been on strike for 23 days in refusal of his administrative detention. He is currently suffering from pain throughout his body, heart and stomach pain, severe dizziness, and has lost a lot of weight.”

It added: "The mute prisoner is complaining of high blood pressure and is refraining from taking his medication and supplements until the administrative detention order issued against him is terminated."

It is noteworthy that the mute prisoner is a former prisoner who spent five years in the occupation prisons, and is a father of six children.

As for the condition of the striking prisoner, Kayed Al-Fafsous, he suffers from extreme fatigue and exhaustion. His movement has become very difficult and he cannot walk or stand, in addition to pain throughout his body. He suffers from dizziness, dizziness, and lack of balance. He did not go out to visit his lawyer due to his poor health condition, noting that he was... Submitting an appeal to the military court of the occupying state, “Ofer,” against the administrative decision issued against him, but no hearing has been set to consider it.

It is noteworthy that the detainee Kayed Al-Fafsous (34 years old) from the city of Dura / Hebron, was re-arrested by the occupation on May 2, 2023. He is a former prisoner who spent about (7) years in the occupation’s prisons, and he began facing arrest in 2007.

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young Palestinian from Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the young Palestinian, Muhannad Al-Kharbathawi, after they raided and searched his house.

Today, Thursday, dozens of settlers stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid heavy protection from the occupation police.

The settlers made provocative tours inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and performed Talmudic rituals.

Groups of settlers storm Al-Aqsa on a daily basis except Friday and Saturday.

The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, arrived in the Cuban capital, Havana, to participate in the summit of the Group of 77 + China, and to meet with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

He was received at the airport by a number of senior Cuban officials.

The President is accompanied by: Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ziad Abu Amr, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, Chief Justice of Palestine, Advisor to the President for Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Advisor to the President for Diplomatic Affairs, Majdi Al-Khalidi, and the Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour. And the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Cuba, Akram Samhan.

The Israeli army decided to impose a comprehensive cordon on the areas of the West Bank and close the Gaza Strip crossings, under the pretext of Jewish holidays.

According to an Israeli military spokesman, the closure will be imposed starting tomorrow afternoon, Friday, until Saturday-Sunday night.

He pointed out that the decision was taken based on an assessment of the security situation and the directives of the political level.

14 members of the Israeli Knesset submitted a petition to the head of the Shin Bet Security Service, Ronen Bar, demanding that the conditions of detention of settler Amiram Ben-Uliel, convicted of killing the Dawabsha family in Duma, Nablus, by burning him in 2015, be improved.

According to the Seventh Hebrew Channel, these are members of the Knesset from different parties, and they demanded an end to the solitary confinement of the settler Ben Uliel, who is detained in Eshel prison.

The Knesset members claimed that the settler suffers from harsh conditions inside the prison, his psychological state is unstable, and that there is no equality between him and the Palestinian prisoners in the conditions of treatment.

Last night, Hamas and Islamic Jihad affirmed their rejection of the continuation of armed clashes in the Ain al-Hilweh camp in southern Lebanon.

This came during the reception of the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziad Al-Nakhalah, in the presence of the head of the Department of Arab and International Relations and member of the Political Bureau, Ihsan Ataya, a leadership delegation from the “Hamas” movement, headed by the deputy head of the movement abroad and member of the Political Bureau, Musa Abu Marzouk, which included: Head of the Department of National Relations. Abroad, Ali Baraka, and the movement’s representative in Lebanon, Ahmed Abdel Hadi.

The two sides focused on the seriousness of the deplored clashes taking place in Ain al-Hilweh camp, which led to the death and injury of dozens of residents of the camp and the neighborhood, the destruction of homes and property, the displacement of people, the disruption of people’s lives and harm to their interests, and the closure of schools and institutions. According to a statement by the Jihad movement.

The two movements stressed that the fighting that is taking place is against the will of the Palestinian people, and only serves the occupation and the suspicious projects targeting the Palestinian camps, in order to erase the refugee issue and pass the displacement and resettlement projects that are completely rejected. As stated in the statement.

The two movements said: “The continuation of the clashes targets the Palestinian national situation in the camps, targets security and stability in Lebanon, and harms the national interest and the Palestinian cause.”

They condemned any internal fighting by anyone, and the statement called on everyone to immediately cease fire, calling on the Palestinian resistance forces to lift the cover on all those involved in these clashes, and to close ranks and unify the Palestinian position in confronting the Israeli occupation alone.

The two movements continued: “The necessity of arresting those involved in crimes, and handing them over to the competent Lebanese authorities, does not justify the threat to civil peace in the camp and the neighborhood, and it cannot be at the expense of our camps, our people, and our Lebanese brothers.”

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, in a podcast interview broadcast on Wednesday, that Saudi Arabia made clear to the United States that the Palestinian issue occupies a central role that it will play in any future agreement with Israel.

Blinken said in his response to a question from the interviewer, Tommy Vietor, and his former deputy in the White House in the administration of former President Barack Obama, Ben Rhodes, on the “Pod Save The World” program regarding a group of news reports about a possible American-brokered normalization agreement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia and Israel “It is clear from what we are hearing from the Saudis that if this process is to move forward, the Palestinian part is going to be very important,” Blinken said.

He added that it is also important for the Biden administration and for all countries that will participate in the negotiations. participate in this process.

Blinken said in his interview with the radio program, which was later published verbatim on the US State Department website: “In our opinion, of course, this must include the two-state solution.”

In response to a question addressing “the reason behind the Biden administration’s assistance to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,” he replied: “These matters are not related to the personality of the leaders, or the individuals who lead, but rather relate to the essence of the issue and whether we can, in every way.” What we do, is to advance a world that is a little more peaceful, a little more prosperous, a little more full of opportunity. There is no doubt in my mind that if we can help achieve normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, that will move the world in that direction. "We have seen extraordinary turmoil in that part of the world since at least 1979 - decades of turmoil."

He added that normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be "beneficial to the region," and described it as "a change that will no longer be linked to any specific government, but rather to the basic interests of the countries concerned." However, Blinken noted that “normalization...cannot be a substitute for Israel and the Palestinians resolving their differences.”

The Minister went on to explain: “Now, this is really difficult. There is a lot that goes into it. It is not clear whether we will get there. But there is no doubt in my mind that if we can, it will be beneficial for us, beneficial for the countries involved, and beneficial "For the region, and good for the world beyond it. If you have a leading Islamic country in the world, an Islamic country in the world, that makes peace with Israel, that will have benefits that extend far beyond the region," he said. "Now, one piece is very important to this normalization - that is, Efforts to improve relations between Israel and its neighbors - cannot be a substitute for Israel and the Palestinians resolving their differences and achieving a much better future for the Palestinians. And in our view, of course, that must include a two-state solution. So it is also clear from what we are hearing from the Saudis that if this is to "If the process goes forward, the Palestinian part will be very important as well."

In response to a question regarding the previous normalization agreements in the Abraham Accords, “which said to the Palestinians, you will get bread crumbs, if not, or nothing at all.” The minister replied that things did not continue well regarding the spread of normalization with Arab and Islamic countries. Grand.

Blinken's statements show the gap between the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Biden administration regarding the Palestinian issue in the talks with the Saudis. While Washington is convinced that it would be impossible to reach a major agreement without achieving tangible benefits for the Palestinians and insists that this is Riyadh's position as well, Netanyahu and senior cabinet members oppose this, saying that the Palestinian issue is marginal in importance.

Sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu estimated that the differences within the government coalition would deepen, and perhaps its collapse, in the next session of the Knesset, against the backdrop of divisions over some internal and external political issues, especially with regard to the Palestinians.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, the issue of transferring armor, equipment, and weapons to the Palestinian Authority increased the state of rift within the Israeli government, despite Netanyahu’s denial of transferring any weapons or equipment, and that only 8 armored vehicles were transferred. The decision to transfer them was taken during the previous government, which in turn denied that.

According to the newspaper, this issue is part of other controversial issues, including the evacuation of settlement outposts, the conditions of Palestinian prisoners, cooperation with the Palestinian Authority, dealing with Hezbollah’s provocations, and other issues.

Those around Netanyahu estimate that the coalition will not last for a long time, while a prominent member of it said that the government will collapse due to the extremism of Ben Gvir and Smotrich, and we need a miracle so that the coalition can survive until the end of the Knesset’s winter conference.

The sources attacked Ben Gvir and Smotrich's actions, and their public criticism of the government's and Netanyahu's policies, indicating that the government will find difficulties in continuing in this manner until the end of its specified term.

Last night, Israeli warplanes launched air strikes on several Syrian targets in the vicinity of Hama Governorate.

According to an official Syrian military source, the bombing was carried out from the direction of northern Lebanon, indicating that it caused some material losses.

The bombing occurred a few hours after a similar attack that targeted Syrian air defense points at a military base near Tartous, killing two Syrian soldiers and wounding 6 others.

For the second day in a row, the Israeli occupation forces continue to tighten their military measures in and around Nablus Governorate.

These forces are still partially closing some checkpoints and preventing the movement of citizens and vehicles through them, while imposing strict measures on movement through other checkpoints.

It also continues its intensive deployment around the town of Beita and closes its entrance.

The town witnessed a massive raid for several hours, during which confrontations broke out with young men, causing dozens to suffocate.

The town also witnessed clashes between occupation soldiers and resistance fighters.

At dawn and Thursday morning, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests and raids in various areas in the West Bank.

In the morning, these forces stormed the Aida camp, north of Bethlehem, and arrested the editor, Mustafa Hammad, the editor, Samed Al-Ateeq, Habashi Daamsa, and Muhammad Al-Amir.

While Majdi Zaqeq and Bahaa Muqbil were arrested from the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.

Muhannad Al-Kharbathawi was arrested from Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem.

The occupation forces stormed several areas, including the town of Beita in Nablus, amid armed confrontations and clashes, and raided dozens of homes.

Many citizens suffered from suffocation during these confrontations.

The Israeli occupation authorities notified, this evening, Wednesday, of the demolition of 6 warehouses in the town of Al-Auja, north of Jericho.

According to local sources, these forces placed a demolition and removal notice on 6 stores, each store measuring 66 square metres, built since 2020 on Street 90, belonging to the citizen Muhammad Issa Hussein Romanin.

The sources indicated that the occupation authorities gave them 4 days to evacuate the warehouses before the demolition, noting that they were not given prior notifications to stop construction.

On Wednesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young Palestinian south of Qalqilya.

According to local sources, these forces stopped a vehicle on the Qalqilya-Nablus road, near the “Kedumim” settlement, in which a young Palestinian was traveling (whose identity is not yet known), and they interrogated him and then arrested him.

Five citizens were killed and others were injured, this Wednesday evening, in an accidental explosion that occurred on the eastern border of Gaza City.

Three of the martyrs were known to be: Baraa Wael Al-Zard, Muhammad Omar Qaddoum, and Nasser Rami Nofal, while two remain unidentified.

According to the Ministry of Health, 25 citizens sustained various injuries, noting that medical teams are still dealing with them at Al-Shifa Medical Hospital.

Also, 5 citizens were injured by bullets and others suffocated as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ suppression of demonstrators in eastern Gaza.

On Wednesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their military measures at checkpoints and crossroads south of Nablus.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces tightened their procedures from the Huwara military checkpoint to the Zaatara military checkpoint, where they closed the road at the Ainabus roundabout in Huwara, south of Nablus, for those heading to the city.

It added that the occupation forces deployed extensively in the area.

The Prisoner Movement decided, this evening, Wednesday, to suspend the open hunger strike, which was scheduled to begin tomorrow, Thursday, 9/14/2023.

The Prisoner Movement confirmed in a statement that this came after the occupation retracted its decisions to reduce visits to the families of prisoners in prisons.

She said: “Our battle with the occupation is open, its nature and form changing according to the requirements of the stage and the data of the field, and this confrontation will not stop except by liberating our land and our people from an enemy that only understands the language of challenge and confrontation.”

The Prisoner Movement sent a message to the occupation, saying: “If you return, we will return, and we will never allow an inherent right that we took away with our hunger, patience, and the sacrifice of our martyrs from the Prisoner Movement to be violated.”

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said, “Britain will provide UNRWA with an amount of US$12.461 million to support its basic services in the period leading up to the high-level week of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.”

This came during his visit, today, Wednesday, to residents of the Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah, in his first official visit to the occupied Palestinian territory, where he met with the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini.

The British Foreign Secretary said: “I saw first-hand the impact of UNRWA’s work in supporting Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, and British funding helps support millions of Palestine refugees across the region by providing vital healthcare.”

In turn, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA briefed the British Foreign Secretary on the main protection issues faced by Palestine refugees in the camp and in other parts of the West Bank, and the agency’s work including key services such as education and health.

“The agency’s services, including providing education to more than half a million children, have become more important than ever given the unprecedented challenges faced by Palestine refugees,” he said.

Two Syrian soldiers were killed, on Wednesday evening, in an Israeli naval bombardment on a Syrian military base in Tartous.

According to the Syrian official news agency, SANA, the bombing targeted Syrian air defense sites, killing two soldiers, wounding six others, and causing severe material damage.

It confirmed that the bombing was carried out from the Mediterranean Sea.

Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy said on Wednesday that thwarting weapons smuggling operations from the Jordanian border led to impressive operational achievements in recent months, as he put it.

This came after a tour he made on the border, following a security assessment session he held with senior officers responsible for the Jordan Valley areas.

The officers briefed Halevy on “countermeasures to prevent weapons smuggling” into the West Bank and even into “Israel.”

An Israeli army statement said that since last year, more than 400 smuggling operations of weapons, explosive devices and ammunition had been thwarted.

On Wednesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young Palestinian after assaulting him near Damascus Gate in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, these forces brutally attacked the young Palestinian Ziad Abu Nab, before arresting him, despite his injury.

On September 13, 1993, the world witnessed the handshake of the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, and the Prime Minister of Israel at the time, Yitzhak Rabin, in the White House garden, a moment that observers considered an “amazing moment.” The famous handshake between the enemies also marked the beginning of what became known as the Oslo Accords. It is a framework for talks between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators, mediated by the Americans.

The idea was that the Palestinians would eventually be empowered through open negotiations and confidence-building measures to control their own affairs in the territories occupied in 1967, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. After a five-year transitional period, the prevailing belief was that a Palestinian state would survive. Together with Israel. Through this two-state solution, peace can be achieved between Israel and the Palestinians.

Today, thirty years later, experts believe, it has become clear that the Oslo Accords did not achieve peace or a two-state solution. Especially since - according to all statistics - more than 200 Palestinians and about 30 Israelis have been killed so far in 2023 alone, and Israel is led by a government that is the most right-wing and extremist in its history, while the Palestinian leadership suffers from weakness and division, while there is no possibility, even if it is weak, of a return. To negotiations any time soon.

In America, successive American administrations from 2014 until today abandoned the idea of sponsoring negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel, and abolished the position of “peace envoy” and replaced it with the position of “normalization envoy,” which gives priority in American policy towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to the vigorous pursuit of normalization deals between Arab countries. And Israel, as we saw in the so-called “Abraham Accords,” and its current persistent effort to annex the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to these agreements.

While many wonder how this bitter reality emerged (currently) from the high hopes in 1993, others point to violations of the terms of the agreements on both sides. Others blame a lack of accountability, which has allowed these abuses to go unchecked.

Some experts believe that the Oslo peace process failed because the framework itself was flawed and largely flawed in three key areas: first, the agreements ignored the power imbalance between the two sides; Second, it focused on ending violence committed by Palestinian armed groups while condoning violence committed by the Israeli occupying state, and third, the Oslo Accords sought peace as the ultimate goal, rather than justice.

The Palestine Liberation Organization implicitly recognized Israel in 1988 (National Council in Algeria on November 15, 1988). But when a more formal statement was needed for Israel to agree to the talks, letters were exchanged on September 9, 1993, and Yasser Arafat wrote in his letter to Rabin: “The Palestine Liberation Organization recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security.” According to experts then, by officially recognizing Israel's right to exist, the Palestine Liberation Organization had practically abandoned its sole sovereign claim to 78% of the historic homeland of the Palestinians that Israel now claims.

In response, Rabin wrote to Arafat that Israel would "recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people" without recognizing the Palestinians' right to form their own state.

In the “Declaration of Principles” signed by Arafat and Rabin at the White House on September 13, it was stated that the goal of the talks was “to implement Security Council Resolutions No. 242 (from 1967) and 338 (from 1973, which called on Israel to withdraw from the territories it occupied in 1967 and explicitly calls for To establish a Palestinian state.

Since then, Israel has expropriated nearly half of the West Bank for the exclusive use of Jewish settlers, in violation of international law and routinely withdraws water from Palestinian aquifers for use by settlers, while denying Palestinians access to their own water.

By most estimates, Palestinian lives became worse during the post-Oslo years under these measures, not better. As Palestinians lost more control over their lands, homes, and resources, their ability to establish a state became more elusive.

According to experts, by insisting on holding bilateral negotiations between the strong state of Israel, supported unconditionally by America and Europe, and a people without a state, and without the auspices of the United Nations or any other international body, the Oslo framework ignored the imbalance of power between Israel and the Palestinians, while the American mediators insisted. However, both sides need to reach a settlement through concession, at a time when Israel possesses hundreds of times more military, economic and diplomatic power than the Palestinian side.

By ignoring this power imbalance, the Oslo Accords effectively allowed Israel to continue expropriating land and resources without any consequences. With 60% of the West Bank under Israeli control, the prospects for a viable, independent Palestinian state have been undermined.

The 1994 follow-up agreement also stipulated that “the two sides shall take all necessary measures to prevent acts of terrorism, crime and hostilities directed against each other.” She added, "The Palestinian side will take all necessary measures to prevent such hostile actions directed against the settlements, the infrastructure that serves them, and the area of military installations."

Successive Israeli governments have interpreted the term “hostile acts” loosely, allowing them to target, arrest, imprison, and shoot Palestinians who defended their lands through non-violent means by Israeli occupation soldiers.

The agreement also stipulated that "the Israeli side will take all necessary measures to prevent such hostile actions emanating from the settlements and directed against the Palestinians." The agreement did not mention the daily violence of the Israeli military occupation against Palestinian civilians.

It is noteworthy that one month after the famous handshake (September 13, 2023), the late Palestinian writer Edward Said described the Oslo Accords as “a tool for Palestinian surrender,” while a group of senior political scientists recently called on decision-makers in the United States to completely abandon the Oslo framework and the two-state solution. .

They call on the United States instead to "defend the equality, citizenship, and human rights of all Jews and Palestinians living within the single state dominated by Israel."

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said today, Wednesday, “The visit of the Arab brothers to Palestine represents a message to strengthen the steadfastness of our people and their steadfastness on their land, and to enhance the unity of the Arab position and blood.”

This came during his reception in his office in Ramallah, a delegation of heads and representatives of Arab charitable and community institutions, guests of the Jerusalem International Conference on Sustainable Development Applications, in the presence of the Fund’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, Munib Al-Masry, and the Prime Minister’s Advisor for Arab and Islamic Funds, Nasser Qatami.

Shtayyeh greeted the Arab brothers coming from Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Tunisia and Jordan.

He continued: "Every Arab has a share in Palestine, especially in Jerusalem, by virtue of religion and nationality. The Palestinian is entrusted with this land, and is keen on the security and stability of every Arab country, just as he is keen on Palestine."

Shtayyeh briefed the delegation on the general situation in Palestine, and the conditions we live in in light of the occupation’s daily attacks on our people, and the wars it wages against land, people, money, and narratives.

The Prime Minister appreciated the support provided by Arab charitable, community and development institutions to Palestine, especially to the city of Jerusalem, to strengthen the steadfastness of its people in the face of the occupation.

For its part, the delegation stressed that Palestine lives in the heart of every Arab and Muslim and will remain the central Arab issue, and support for Palestine and Jerusalem will remain a priority for the work of Arab charitable institutions.

It is noteworthy that the Jerusalem International Conference on Sustainable Development Applications is organized by the Jerusalem Fund and Endowment, Al-Quds University, and a number of institutions, and is scheduled to be held on the fourteenth of this month.