There is much talk about an upcoming deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel, with American mediation. Before starting, we must admit that Saudi Arabia's position differs from the rest of the countries that have moved towards normalization, and that the road to the White House starts from Jerusalem! Saudi Arabia's position on the Palestinian issue is clear and unambiguous, and Saudi Arabia has made its position clear on many occasions, despite the noise of the American and Western media to the contrary, based on the language of interests and the language of weapons in a pragmatic neoliberal world! Saudi Arabia rejects normalization before implementing the Arab Peace Initiative launched by King Abdullah for peace in the Middle East. It was announced at the Arab summit in Beirut in 2002. Its aim is recognition and normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel in exchange for the establishment of an internationally recognized Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital and the return of refugees according to the Resolution 194 and Israel's withdrawal from the occupied Golan Heights. This initiative won the support of all Arab and Islamic countries, while the occupying power neglected it by not responding.

Netanyahu is trying hard to promote a close normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia, as this is his survival strategy! Recently, Saudi Arabia took the decision to appoint a “non-resident” ambassador to the Palestinian Authority. Saudi Arabia’s appointment of Ambassador “Nayef Al-Sudairi” to the State of Palestine, and Consul General of the Kingdom in Jerusalem, comes as a message to Israel that is in the interest of the Palestinians. The Israeli Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, replied: “They did not coordinate with us. We will not allow the opening of any diplomatic mission. They did not coordinate with us. We will not allow the opening of any diplomatic mission. What lies behind the progress of the talks between Saudi Arabia and the American administration is that the Saudis want to deliver a message to the Palestinians that they have not forgotten them. We do not allow countries to open consulates.” ».

Historically, there was a Saudi representation residing in Jerusalem in 1947 under the direction of King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Saudi Consulate General was opened in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. The appointment of an extraordinary ambassador today does not mean to raise the level of relations, but rather to not have his actual residence, which is a normal and natural expression according to the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Relations 1961 and 1963. In the text of the appointment, Saudi Arabia used the expression “the city of Jerusalem” and not “East Jerusalem.” This is an explicit response to the United States considering the “city of Jerusalem” and not “West Jerusalem” as the capital of Israel.. With this step, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia confirms that the “city of Jerusalem” is a land for the State of Palestine that has “the right of sovereignty” over it, and thus it has the right to accredit ambassadors and consuls there.

Netanyahu is in dire need of this agreement, but the world must realize that Netanyahu has not presented or proven since the signing of the "Abraham Accords" anything attractive to Saudi Arabia, on the contrary; It embarrassed the countries that normalized, and the agreement to form the coalition that took place on December 28, 2022 refers to the Land of Israel, where the rights are exclusive to the Jews! "The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right throughout the Land of Israel." If the constitution of this government is based on the Judaization of the Noble Sanctuary, securing the police grip on it, and the escalation of violence against the Palestinians by enabling the terror of settlers, the confiscation of lands, and the allocation of millions for settlement and annexation in the occupied territories! What does the Netanyahu government offer to tempt Saudi Arabia to ride the wave of normalization? On the contrary, it is not in the kingdom's interest to abandon its peace initiative that contains clear criteria.

The Saudis are well aware that the Israelis do not think of real peace, otherwise the peace initiative has been ready for 20 years. Saudi Arabia wants stability, development, peace and supremacy in the region, and this will only be achieved by resolving the Palestinian issue in a just solution and by establishing a Palestinian state according to the Saudi Arab initiative and with “East Jerusalem” as its capital. What hinders this is the Israeli refusal and the adoption of economic deals in exchange for peace. This will not come up with a political solution.

Under the reign of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia is presenting itself as a progressive regional and global power. The Saudi position today is very strong, taking into account the détente with Iran and Syria in the region, and on the other hand the development in Chinese-Saudi relations and finally the BRICS alliance, where Saudi Arabia joins a group of countries (China, Russia, South Africa, Brazil, India) in addition to the accession of the UAE And Egypt, Ethiopia, Argentina and Iran at the beginning of 2024, and this is considered a very important development in the international balance of power after decades of a unipolar system.

Analyzes indicate that there is progress in the negotiations, but the Saudi demands related to the nuclear reactor, uranium enrichment, and the defense agreement with the United States, and this requires the approval of Congress, and these are the conditions that impede the agreement, and not the Palestinian file, as some believe. The Saudi position is clear and strong, and Saudi Arabia adopts a pragmatic and progressive approach in its negotiations, so as to ensure its security and supremacy in the region through this agreement, which may save Netanyahu and Biden, if it is concluded

- Dr. Dalal Erekat: Professor of Diplomacy and Strategic Planning, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Arab American University.

I think we are living through a political phase that is one of the worst that our people have experienced over decades. Until we reached the painful conditions we are in and a dark future.. I feel, and I may be wrong, that the people live in one valley and the leaders in another, and that the people seem unable to change these conditions and that the leaders, as is clear and well-known, seem not interested in changing this reality, that serves their own factional interests.

The occupation devours what it can of the land, establishes settlements, plans for the next decades, and begins implementation immediately. Our leaders continue to issue statements of condemnation and absolute verbal rejection of these occupation practices. Then each commander goes to his base and home and prepares for the upcoming personal plans and writes the necessary speeches and statements on the public level, that no one in this country listens to or cares about anymore.

The only steadfast and strong glimmer of hope remains in our demographic presence on this land, while clinging to it and being careful as much as possible to work to protect it and prevent the occupation from stealing it. There are many cases where citizens succeeded in defending and protecting their lands from the oppression of the occupation, and we have strong evidence of this, which is the increasing Palestinian presence within the borders of what we call the Arabs of the interior, whose presence is considered a thorn in the side of the occupation despite all the difficulties and obstacles they face.

The big question facing us is what to do and how can we get out of this vicious circle? And I believe that the simple and easy answer is to hold presidential, municipal and rural elections so that the people can say their word and choose who represents them, and that these elections, if they happen, are not for one-time, but are repeated every four years, for example, or specify a time period for holding them and commit to that.

At the forefront of such elections are the real presidential elections, every four years, unlike what is happening with us in the current circumstances. 

There is much talk in the Palestinian and regional literature about Israel's destruction of the two-state solution, as a result of the policies and practices of the occupying power on the ground, especially the flooding of the occupied West Bank with settlements and settlers. What is meant by the two-state solution, before falling into any ambiguity, is the choice of the Palestinian state as an embodiment of the Palestinian national program, which is confirmed by international legitimacy resolutions, Palestinian representative institutions, and Arab summits, with the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital on the territories occupied in 1967. This must be clarified because there are those who claim that the two-state solution can be embodied by a state in the Gaza Strip alongside Israel after its annexation of most of the West Bank. Even Netanyahu said sarcastically about the dismembered lands left to the Palestinians according to the deal of the century, "If they want to call it a state, let them call it that." There are ministers in the Israeli government who claim that there are two states for the Palestinians, Jordan and Gaza.

The decline in the chances of a two-state solution is also linked to Israel's tightening of the occupied Palestinian territories and their populations to the wheel of the Israeli economy by destroying the foundations of the Palestinian economy and taking full control of the crossings, resources and airspace. This control now includes all aspects of Palestinian life, including electricity, water, communications, transportation, population and land records, the use of the Israeli currency, and the dependence of the Palestinian Authority budget on the Israeli decision to transfer clearance funds (it is noteworthy that the Oslo Agreement and the Paris Protocol did not guarantee any international mechanism to compel Israel to transfer these funds, and they remained subject to the Israeli decision and its arbitrary deductions) and even individual and personal freedoms such as the right to travel, change the place of residence, civil status transactions and the issuance of documents remained subject to the approval of the Israeli occupation.

This trend of the domination of the occupation and the subordination of the Palestinians to its authorities began to strengthen instead of diminishing after the Oslo Accords, specifically in the last two decades, despite the appearances and ceremonies enjoyed by the Palestinians, including authority, security agencies, ministries, agencies, passports, foreign diplomatic representation, and the presence of foreign representations. This annexation and its repercussions are not limited to the diaries of our lives and the Israeli harassment and violations that do not stop. Rather, the most dangerous thing is that it has moved to political approaches to the settlement, such as the realistic dealing with the Palestinian issue as if it is an internal Israeli affair, and the American and most European dealings with the Palestinians as part of their relations with Israel. Even the foreign representations in Palestine, most of them follow the embassies of their countries in Tel Aviv, to accept the Israeli exclusivity of the Palestinians under the pretext that any problem must be resolved through negotiations, leading to international and regional shaking hands from the two-state solution as if it has become impossible.

Linked to this fallacy of the practical retreat from the option of the two-state solution, and to keep it in theory, is the call on the Palestinians to accept what is available and possible, as if the two-state solution has become outside the realm of possibility. This option is being covered up with floating talk about "adhering to the two-state solution" or preserving this solution, and as a result, economic temptations are being hinted at, and Israel is being asked to provide serious facilities. Even this last offer was mentioned in leaks of American offers to Saudi Arabia in exchange for normalization with Israel. . Unfortunately, it is possible to find in some Palestinian discourse such ambiguous positions, which express their willingness to deal with these concessions.

In the vicinity of this bazaar, there are many voices promoting the death of the two-state solution, some of which stem from a Palestinian national ground, or at least from a position of sympathy with the people for the Palestinians and their just cause. Indeed, a political movement was formed for this purpose and its alternative proposition is based on the call for "one state with equal rights." This movement includes Palestinian and Israeli anti-occupation activists, and has some support in local and international academic circles.

And with the necessity of distinguishing between the liquidation approach carried by the Israeli projects, with which the Western circles, especially the American administration, are colluding, and between the Palestinian jurisprudences that bear more than one face, some of which tend to compromise and accept what is offered to it, and others of a diligent nature that sees the depth of the impasse in which our case was stuck after Oslo agreement.

No one has the right to prohibit jurisprudence and thinking on others, if the matter is related to political and intellectual jurisprudence that presents militant alternatives to the program of the independent state, but the adoption of an alternative national program for the Palestinian people should come from its inclusive legitimate institutions, and not from the jurisprudence of this leader or thinker or that. And before that, the legitimacy of these legitimate and representative institutions should be renewed through comprehensive elections in which all the Palestinian people's gatherings participate.

These propositions impose more questions than the answers presented, and among these questions:

- Do we have to accept that the Israeli measures, including Judaization, annexation, settlement, and the material facts imposed by Israel during the past decades, are final and irreversible, and we only have to accept them?

Is it possible for any political program concerning a people and a liberation movement to suffice with presenting distant goals as utopian and dreamy desires, without detailed programs and plans that explain ways to achieve these goals and the proposed forms of struggle, and how to mobilize the masses of the people and their energies to contribute to this program, as long as the aforementioned goals will not be presented to us on a silver platter?

- What about the position on the continued settlement, do we have to accept it because it will be part of the one-state solution, and what is the fate of the wide international recognition of the Palestinian state?

- Is it wise and realistic to accept defeat before it occurs, or is it more appropriate to review our programs, tools of struggle, conditions of our institutions, and ways of managing national affairs?

Relying on the traditional answers that our children memorize by heart does not help us in addressing these questions and challenges, nor in dealing with transformations and conspiracies aimed at undermining our inalienable and legitimate rights, just as theoretical and academic answers are not sufficient to guide the struggle towards freedom and independence, and what is needed is answers that turn into programs and daily action plans, instead of waiting for what fates will do to us.

Since the remarkable escalation of guerrilla operations in the occupied Palestinian territories with the emergence of the Lions' Den group and the Jenin Brigades almost a year ago, the Israeli political and security leaders, led by Netanyahu, have been accusing Hamas and Islamic Jihad of being behind these operations with support and incitement from Iran and Hezbollah. Netanyahu reiterated these allegations in a meeting (To the Cabinet), which met hastily in response to the Hebron operation on the 21st of this month, threatening that it would respond forcefully to the parties that support and finance those who carry out the operations. He mentioned Iran, Hezbollah, and even Hamas and Islamic Jihad, vowing to return to the policy of assassinations.

These Israeli allegations aim to achieve several goals, including:

1- Covering up the reality of the occupation and its terrorist acts, and on the fact that the resistance is a natural reaction to the occupation that gains its legitimacy from all religious and positivist charters and laws.

2- Strengthening his propaganda system directed against Iran as being behind the instability in the region and thus justifying his terrorist acts against the resistance fighters and their families by claiming to prevent Iran from expanding in the region.

3- Distorting the image of the national resistance and showing that the Palestinian people in the West Bank have surrendered to the fait accompli and are willing to live under the yoke of the apartheid occupation state, and that the commando operations are directed from abroad and not with national motives.

4- Stirring up strife by claiming that the aim of these operations is to overthrow the Palestinian Authority and for Hamas to take control of the West Bank, just as it took control of the Gaza Strip.

5- Misleading Israeli public opinion and attempting to silence the escalating opposition against it by claiming that Israel is exposed to an existential threat that surrounds it from every side.

6- Misleading international public opinion, which has begun to discover the truth about the Zionist entity and its terrorist and racist practices.

There is no doubt that Iran supports the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements with money and weapons, just as other countries supported the PLO factions even before the emergence of these two movements, and this is normal for liberation movements around the world, as none of them relied on their own capabilities. All the socialist camp, especially China and the Soviet Union, and the Algerian Liberation Front were supported financially, politically and militarily by many Third World countries in addition to the Soviet Union, Egypt and neighboring countries, and the African National Congress in South Africa in its struggle against the apartheid regime was supported by the majority of the world's countries, even Western and from The United Nations, which issued resolutions boycotting the racist De Klerk regime and imposed sanctions on it, and the Free French forces led by Charles de Gaulle found all support and backing from America and Britain during their fight against German Nazism during World War II, and now Ukraine finds all military, financial and political support from NATO to confront what It considers it a Russian invasion of its lands, and no one accuses Ukraine of terrorism while it bombs Russian cities!!

The problem, then, does not lie in the presence or absence of external support for liberation movements from colonialism, and our subject is the Palestinian people and their fighting movements. independent on his land and the legitimacy of his resistance to the occupation.

How can it be believed that an Iranian foreign agenda stands behind the resistance of the Palestinian people to the occupation while the resistance to the occupation extends over a century, from the Al-Buraq uprising of 1929 to the Izz al-Din al-Qassam revolution of 1935 and the Great Arab Revolt of 1936, then the contemporary Palestinian revolution of 1965 and the two great intifadas, all of which were before they appeared. The Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah, and the axis of resistance!! Israeli leaders and analysts also blamed the escalation of guerrilla operations on the extreme right and its policies, and Netanyahu's submission to Ben Gvir and Smotrich's provocative tendencies of the Palestinian national feeling.

Exaggerating talk about an external agenda is an insult to the national resistance fighters and to the Palestinian people in general, because the resistance to the occupation has never stopped and it continues before and after the emergence of the so-called axis of resistance. Since the beginning of the year, 34 settlers have been killed, and the majority of those who carried out the commando operations are citizens who do not belong to any political faction, and the number of fighters officially affiliated with Fatah and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and from the security services may exceed the number of those officially affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Even if they belong to these two movements, they are Palestinian movements. The majority of these fedayeen were martyred and buried in the land of Palestine as Palestinians, and they were shrouded with the Palestinian flag, not with the flag of Iran or Hezbollah.

There is no doubt that there is a Palestinian division and regional interventions to strengthen the division and support one party at the expense of the other, and there is no doubt that Iran has its own agenda just as the Muslim Brotherhood has theirs, and we do not deny the role of Hamas in the division and its coup against power and its aspiration to replace the PLO in the leadership of the Palestinian people, and it is also true that if The actions of the resistance were within the framework of a comprehensive national strategy, as agreed upon by all the parties, so the feasibility of the resistance would have been better, and there would have been no all this confusion and suspicion, etc. However, this does not justify distorting the resistance and considering every commando operation as serving an external agenda or aiming to weaken and overthrow the authority in the West Bank, and the Hamas movement will be delusional. If she believed that it would happen in the West Bank as it happened in Gaza and that the occupation would enable it to have power and a state in the West Bank.

If the occupation seeks to destroy or abolish the national functional role of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank or transform it into an agent or a modernizing village association, which is the authority that was established within the framework of a political settlement project in which the Palestine Liberation Organization recognizes Israel. Hamas, so how will Israel allow Hamas to have power in the West Bank when it says publicly that it does not recognize Israel and the armed resistance to liberate all of Palestine?!

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"No to Apartheid Technology" is the title of a popular campaign by activists and employees of Google and Amazon who advocate for Palestinian human rights against the close technological cooperation between Israel and these two companies to serve and sustain the occupation and the apartheid project, especially against the so-called "Nimbus" project.

And this “Nimbus” is an agreement concluded in May of the year 2021 (during the war on Gaza) between the occupation army and Google and Amazon to implement a project to provide highly complex cloud technology and artificial intelligence to the Israeli entity at a value of one billion and 200 million dollars.

Under which artificial intelligence services are harnessed to enable Israel to increase the suffering of the Palestinians, seize their lands, displace and kill them more effectively and harshly. how ? The project simply consists of two parts: a high-speed data center and cloud technology services in order to facilitate surveillance, illegal data collection, control, facial recognition, and prosecution of Palestinian activists, and to make the Israeli-led apartheid policy against the Palestinians more efficient. This means that Palestine will become a large prison, and the movement of every Palestinian who lives in it will be monitored continuously. Nimbus also provides the Israeli Land Authority, which is directly responsible for settlement and land confiscation, with support services for Palestinian land data to facilitate the process of displacement, land appropriation and settlement construction.

The most dangerous thing is that Israel obtained, according to Nimbus, the right to establish three huge data centers within it that are fully subject to Israeli laws, without any international control over the information from the technological producing companies, and without the possibility of using this data in any international institution that can hold Israel accountable for its crimes.

Protests by activists and institutions advocating for Palestinian rights against the Nimbus project, since the signing of the contract in 2021, escalate every year at every global meeting of Google, Amazon, or even other technology companies. In fact, the heroine of the protests is the Jewish American and former Google employee, Ariel Koren, who exposed the project and behind her hundreds of employees from both companies who opposed this agreement as against human and moral right, and with criminalizing Google and Amazon profits based on war crimes and crimes against humanity and empowering a racist army ( The Israeli army) of technology that helps it to kill.
"Corinne" was fought by Google and had to choose between moving to Brazil or resigning, so she chose the second. She has co-organized the Workers Against Nimbus and No Apartheid Technology campaigns.

The Nimbus project has returned to the fore again this month with the call to protest in front of the Cloud Technology Conference to be held on August 29 in San Francisco, USA.

I call on all activists and youth to join the “No Tech For Apartheid” campaign on its website so that the echo of the protests becomes more influential and more severe on the Israeli entity and on technology companies that feed on Palestinian blood. It is not impossible for Google and Amazon to give up their military project. Google has already abandoned two military projects with China and the US army after huge protests... The important thing is not to neglect the protest policy and underestimate its importance as a method that can make a difference.

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On the issue of normalization, we are facing a state of "unconsciousness", in which the Arabs seem unaware of its dimensions, dealing with the matter lightly and naively, and at best not with sufficient seriousness.

Normalization, and before it is a position on Israel, is a position on oneself. A position on the nation, on its existence, on its past and present, and most importantly... on its future, and on its "national" security. It's going from dependency to more dependency. Rather, in the end, he joined Israel and its project, which apparently is not understood at all by those who are "concerned."

Normalization is a strategic "projection" of the region. He is the declared and "proud" stand on the side of the enemies. Rather, it is a strange expression of a strange "case" to understand enemies and friends, to which neither the laws of nature nor the laws of logic apply. By normalization, we reconciled Israel and lost our national security... The patient was killed to avoid the disease... The operation succeeded and the patient died, as it is said.

four parties to normalization; America (and the West) and Israel, who prepared the scene, and the Palestinians and the Arabs, who played the "heroic" role in it. Below we will try to shed some light on that.
American normalization
America is almost more keen on normalization than Israel itself, as it is indeed its godfather, with which no one can compete. This is natural, as it employs it strategically in its struggle with China and Russia, and in its battle to preserve its "dominance" over the world. President Biden was clear in this regard when he said that the United States will not leave the region in a vacuum "filled by China and Iran."

The need for America to devote itself to the conflict with China and Russia necessitated the “handing over” of the Middle East, which is an important arena, over which Western control must be maintained because of its strategic location first, and its private gas and oil resources second, to a reliable “agent”, who has no form of responsibility. The reservation, in order to "sponsor" the region and manage it on behalf of the required form, and the best person to play the role of the "exclusive" agent for the West in the region is, undisputedly, Israel.

In order for the process of "handing over" the region to the agent to be successful, a normal relationship must be established between him and its countries. Here, the United States had to use its influence with the regimes of those countries, temptation or pressure, in order to accelerate the process of normalization, and promised the new Sudanese regime to remove it from the list of terrorism and to assist it financially, and pressured in various forms on others, as happened in pressure on some governments to participate in Rabin's funeral was held at the highest levels, as stated by Sheikh Hamad, the Qatari prime minister at the time.

Preparing the region’s arena to accept normalization with Israel, which the United States made as a “yardstick” for the relationship with it, required a lot of American and Israeli effort, represented by working to weaken the countries of the region, especially the powerful ones, whether through the “Arab Spring”, civil wars, or threats Direct Israeli, or through the regime of sanctions and economic pressure imposed by the United States, whether on entities or individuals.

Israeli normalization
Israel seeks complete control over Palestine, and hegemony over the Arab world and the East as a whole. It thus achieves the objectives of its project, which was clearly expressed by Ben-Gurion, when he said that Israel's goal is to achieve Zionism, not peace, and it also fulfills its "duty" as a tool to achieve the goals of the Western imperialist project.

This requires the normalization of its relations with the Arab countries, as it is difficult for it to "work" in light of the boycott of the countries of the region. By normalization, it dismantles its political, economic as well as moral isolation, has a greater margin of movement in all fields, integrates more into global markets, and most of all, in direct line with its role, makes others part of its security system, whereby its primary mission is as a state and as a project.

Israel cannot play its role as an effective agent in the region, without normal relations with its countries and, if possible, with its people. For it, normalization means the Zionization of the region, and the establishment of a Zionist “empire” that is an Arab and Islamic Israeli front, which it leads, and acts as a “rhythm” for it, to carry out its strategic missions, globally against China and Russia, regionally against Iran, and locally against any party that resists. her project.

Israel uses all methods for smooth and lasting normalization, politics, economics, media, psychology and, more recently, religion, which culminated in the Abrahamic peace. It thereby confirms its leadership of the region religiously, and acquires a sanctity through which it aspires to reach out to the peoples whose religion, over a long period of time, constituted perhaps their "strongest" line of defense against colonialism and Zionism.

Once the "principled" approval of normalization by any Arab or Islamic country, Israel takes its "glory" in the game it has mastered, the "mastery" of blackmail and wit, and playing on the various parties in order to achieve the maximum gains from that. For example, Israel's recognition of the Sahara as a Moroccan land  was the "achievement" that Morocco considered the most important in its normalization with it, but Israel procrastinated to the maximum before making that recognition, in order to "force" Morocco to host the "Negev Forum" conference, and in my estimation as well to work on the possibility of "selling" this to Algeria, not to Morocco.

Arab normalization
First of all, it must be acknowledged that the Arab regimes would have preferred that their normalization with Israel remain "secret", except in the case of Sadat, who reached a degree of delusion and illness - if we deal with the matter psychologically - and considered that his "visit" to Jerusalem was in the manner of Omar accepting Islam, a clear conquest, courage and a source of pride. The others - with some exceptions - treated it more or less as a shame.
Although Israel achieves most of its goals from normalization before announcing it, "publicity" and the accompanying ceremonies and rituals remain a basic Israeli demand, as it thus transfers it from the status of the forbidden to the permissible, and Israel, as it is known, "does not enter into the forbidden." Therefore, the normalized parties are brought to the White House, under the auspices of the American President, and the participation of predecessors among the normalized ones and the international media, to announce it.

This scene does not inaugurate a "different" state in Arab-Israeli relations, but rather shows the state of the "nation" for what it is, losing its identity, ignoring its project, a victim of its weakness, and happy with its defeat.

Normalization constitutes a crushing blow to Arab national security, the essence of which is that the only strategic enemy of the nation is Israel. By normalization, the nation places itself on the side of its enemy, and forms with him and under his leadership a front to carry out the American tasks in international conflicts.

Israel achieves what it wants from normalization, while the Arab countries hardly achieve anything, because they do not have any strategy even in the matter of normalization, so their normalization seems random, individual, improvised and "naïve".

No Arab country that has normalized relations with Israel has achieved a goal that can be described as strategic. Rather, it may not have had any such demand; Those countries, for example, did not ask Israel to clarify their borders that should be recognized, so they were recognized within vague borders left to the balance of power and the "Israeli tank" to determine. It did not demand, even just a request, the dismantling of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. Rather, some of them took the initiative to express their desire to possess a nuclear program, which would only be meaningless militarily in light of the abandonment of national security, and economically due to the massive availability of other energy sources.

Israel has rejected the "Arab peace initiative", which represents an Arab offer for normalization, not only because this initiative calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state in exchange for "collective" normalization with it, but also because it does not accept any collective Arab action, even if that is normalization with it. She wants them individually because that matches her strategy of separating them, and being alone is usually more comfortable and more profitable.

Acceptance of "individual" normalization with Israel goes beyond acceptance of it "in principle", to acceptance of it according to the Israeli method, in form and content. It is practically more than normal. It is a political, economic and security alliance that requires the regimes to completely deny the will of their people, clearly comply with the American and Israeli will, deny the Palestinian cause, and engage in the Israeli project to "demonize" the Palestinians as a prelude to finish off their cause.

Palestinian normalization
Palestinian normalization came as a result of full involvement in the illusion, or at least, of the uncalculated bet on the possibility of achieving peace and obtaining a minimum level of Palestinian rights, resulting  with an increased attachment to the Israeli reality, and an increasing involvement with the Western-Zionist project in the region.

The Palestinians bet on influencing Israeli society through normalization. It was a failed bet, as that society accelerated its tendency towards more Zionism and persistence in the occupation, and  continued to "tame" the Palestinians to identify with Israel and its project, and used the Palestinian "dealing" with Israel as a "permission"  to Arab normalization with it, as it withdrew that "moral" deterrent that some Arabs felt the enormity of normalization.

The Israelis used the normalization of the Palestinians with them, and the Oslo Accords in general, as a bridge to reach the Arab countries, where the Palestinians were “comfortable” with this role, which they believed would give them “weight” in a comprehensive peace process in the region, but the Israelis quickly turned around that bridge and built their direct bridges towards the Arabs. And Israel has moved to be the bridge that connects them to some Arabs and to the United States as well.

The Israeli "recognition" of the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinians was the ultimate goal of the Palestinian leadership, and after years of intransigence regarding that, the Israelis realized that they could achieve many of their goals in return for granting the Palestinians that "achievement", after it had been emptied of all its national implications.

Through normalization, the Palestinians tried to prove their serious desire for peace, but in reality, they severed their ties with all the reasons of their strength, and there was nothing left for them but to persevere in pursuing the illusion of Israeli peace.

Normalization, regardless of intentions, appeared as a manifestation of Palestinian weakness, that weakness that the Palestinians must work to change, if they want to return their cause to its natural state, as an axes and a beacon for the forces of liberation in the region and perhaps in the world.

Security and political stability is one of the most important foundations for economic development. Without security, there is no development, and without development, there is no strong system with sound foundations.

The political stability of any country is considered the fertile ground and the basis for every process of development or progress in all fields, political, economic, social, cultural... and others, in addition to achieving security.

And when we talk about the Gaza Strip, the small coastal enclave on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and what it includes of important geographic terrain and the life of about two million Palestinian citizens, most of whom live below the poverty line because of the complex political and security conditions that surround this besieged enclave from all sides, a reading of what the situation was like before 17 years ago and the slight improvement in the situation today in the political and security situation after a series of wars and destruction puts us before a new turning point and a serious question: Does this security and political stability, even if it is temporary, affect economic growth and prosperity in the region?

It is true that stability and calm contribute to improving and raising the pace of work and providing the appropriate atmosphere to achieve progress and growth in all fields, the most important of which is the field of industrial development, because we are talking about a poor geographical area that needs, more than ever before, political and security stability, which will inevitably affect the growth, prosperity and development of the industry. and the economy, to benefit most of the population of the Strip. However, the calm in the Gaza Strip remains temporary, because it is the product of a complex political and security conflict. At any moment, the situation may turn around and the atmosphere of war and attack will prevail, causing the destruction of what is being built during the years of calm. Hence, it can be said clearly that stability on all fronts and areas contributes greatly to citizens welfare and gives them a good time to work and develop and improve the situation of the economy. But this is conditional on permanent stability and continuous calm, and this is what cannot be achieved unless the political equations in the region change, and the Gaza Strip, according to international agreements and UN sponsorship, obtains its independence and complete freedom. At that time, it can be said that the economic recovery will show its features in a large and clear way, given the lack of fear of returning to the square of confrontation and conflict..

Is this possible in the current perspective?

We affirm beyond any doubt that the external and internal developments in the Gaza Strip alike cannot achieve this intention in the short term due to the great complications related to the blockade, Israeli policies, the Palestinian division, the nature of the rule by Hamas and other social obstacles. And therefore, what is the alternative to ensure the continuation of the current temporary stability?

The answer lies in the mentality and awareness of the resistance factions, which in recent months have been adopting a new diplomatic method in which there is a spirit of resistance and pride, but at the same time they think consciously and rationally about the surrounding conditions in the Strip and the possibility of turning them overnight into tragic ones. Hence, this thinking that focuses on the security of citizens, their safety and sparing them the danger and hell of Israeli attacks missed a lot of opportunity for Israel to achieve its goals to impose more anxiety, hunger and calamities in the Strip on the one hand, and contributed on the other hand to bring security and calm, even temporarily, to the citizens of the Strip.

Exploiting this situation and moving away from the language of threats, intimidation and wars at the present time contributes to the creation of a social and economic reality that helps to find a ground upon which to build on to create a productive economic climate that employs financial and human resources, which has a direct economic impact by starting economic growth and employing more people towards a future that fulfills the desires of the present poor generation and protects the interests of future generations.

This ground, which is based on political and security stability, has become a major requirement for the success of the economic development process in the Gaza Strip, as it is considered the mainstay for improving human development indicators through the availability of the possibility of enhancing spending in the fields of education, health, and addressing poverty, and this is linked to development projects offered by donor countries.

When security and safety factors are available, businessmen and project owners are keen to launch their projects and businesses in areas where safety and security conditions are available, in order to ensure their success. Hence, it can be said that development projects in the world of the economy have been presented, until this moment, by businessmen and big companies timidly, for fear of not succeeding, given that the talk here is about medium- and long-term five-year and ten-year projects and plans. Thus, without ensuring the availability of calm, security and safety factors for a long period of time, for fear of new confrontations in the Strip, which greatly limits the chances of building and completing real development projects in the Gaza Strip. Accordingly, the economic situation remains hostage to the political and security conditions in the region. Hence, we say that Gaza needs a long-term truce, through which the international community concerned will ensure the establishment of security and calm in the Strip, and that the calm will continue for as long as possible so that the Strip enjoys an important and decisive factor to move the wheel of the economy....

If security and political stability is considered a necessity of human rights that also prohibits attacks and violations, then here, from our point of view, is a duty placed on the shoulders of the Palestinian factions, in order to restore calm away from division, and a vital demand to lift the unjust Israeli blockade and grant the Gaza Strip its right to practice its calm and stable life in order to succeed in building economic and development projects in all fields .

Most countries of the world possess the elements of development such as natural and human resources, just like the Gaza Strip overlooking the sea, but the loss of political and security stability, the conflict of parties and factions, sometimes disharmony between the government and the citizen, the monopoly of power and governance, the continuation of division, the blockade and other factors prevent the building of a stable entity in the Gaza Strip that is  needed more than ever before. This entity is based on calm, political and security stability, to achieve the recovery it deserves after a long time of siege, wars, destruction and suffering.

On Sunday, the Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, Ahmed al-Tibi, attacked the so-called extremist national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, against the backdrop of the wave of violence witnessed by the Palestinian community inside the occupied territories.

Al-Tibi said in statements to the Hebrew Radio 103, that Ben Gvir grew up memorizing for many years the saying “death to the Arabs”, and now the Arabs are dying before his eyes, and I do not think that he sees what is happening for him as a failure, because he is a factor of chaos.

And he considered that the Israeli government is able to stop the wave of violence, but it does not, pointing out that the general thinking of the Arab public is that there is an official decision that this chaos remains in Arab society and that they must deal with preserving their lives and not with other issues. This is what the Commissioner said, that the mentality of the Arabs is to kill each other.

Regarding Ben Gvir's statements about the settlers' right to freedom of movement in the West Bank, which is more important than the Palestinians' freedom of movement, Tibi said: "I translated his words and sent them to the world, because it is tantamount to acknowledging the existence of apartheid, and there are many who do and preserve this reality, not only Ben Gvir, this government And all its members support this situation."

Senior officials in the Israeli right-wing Likud party warned, on Sunday, of the collapse of the government coalition, on the back of opinion polls indicating a decline in the popularity of these parties in the event of any new elections.

According to the Hebrew Maariv newspaper, several proposals were presented within the Likud for holding new elections as a popular referendum on the issue of judicial reforms, but the low levels that appear in recent opinion polls indicate the party's decline, along with the government coalition parties.

Officials in the Likud party consider that the elections today are the only recipe for mass suicide for the right-wing camp, which is reaching its lowest levels.

Some voices within the party, led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are calling for avoiding moving forward with judicial reforms and trying to reach an agreement on them and strengthening the position of the current government by pushing for an improvement in the economy, security, and others, to be an asset to right-wing parties in the upcoming elections.

On Sunday, dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the strict protection of the occupation police.

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

Settler groups storm Al-Aqsa on a daily basis, except for Friday and Saturday.

Ali Abu Saleh (30 years old) was killed on Sunday morning, in a new shooting crime inside the 48 territories.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Abu Saleh was shot inside his car in the city of Sakhnin, and a lifeless body was transported from the scene to a nearby hospital.

At dawn on Sunday, 5 civilians were wounded by Israeli forces, after they stormed the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank.

According to local sources, special forces infiltrated the camp, followed by military reinforcements, where snipers were installed and several houses in the camp were raided. Violent armed clashes erupted between the occupation forces and the resistance groups.

Clashes also broke out between dozens of young men and those forces, who used live bullets, rubber and tear gas canisters. Five young men were wounded, one of whom was described as serious, and was transferred to Nablus hospitals for treatment.

Saturday evening, settlers attacked citizens' vehicles with stones, south and east of Hebron.

According to local sources, a group of settlers from "Haggai" and "Kiryat Arba" settlements, which are established on citizens' lands south and east of Hebron, organized provocative marches and attacked citizens' vehicles with stones, without any injuries reported.

The sources added that the occupation forces set up a military checkpoint at the Beit Einoun roundabout, obstructing the passage of citizens and checking their identity cards.

Saturday evening, the protest demonstrations against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and its plan to weaken the judiciary were renewed, for the 34th week in a row.

Demonstrations took place in dozens of cities and towns, including Tel Aviv and Haifa. This week, the demonstrations focused on the failure of the Israeli government to deal with the rampant crime in Palestinian cities and towns within the 48 territories.

Tens of thousands participated in a demonstration that started from Habima Square in the center of Tel Aviv, to the main protest headquarters on Kaplan Street, and a number of them carried coffins with the number of victims of crimes committed in Palestinian society within the 48 territories since the beginning of this year.

During the weekly demonstrations against the plan to weaken the "judiciary", the organizers of the protests touched on various issues related to women's rights in Israeli society, the disruption of the Tel Aviv light rail on Saturdays, and other issues.

A mass demonstration was also organized at the "Horef" junction in Haifa, the "Karkur" junction in Pardes Hana, Nahf, Basma Tib'oun, Ness Ziona, Herzliya, Kfar Saba and others.

During the demonstration at the Karkur junction, opposition leader Yair Lapid criticized the extremist so-called "minister of national security" Itamar Ben Gvir, vowing to continue working against the Israeli "extremist government".

"I saw Ben Gvir on TV, and I heard him," Lapid said. "He is a pathetic racist, and a complete failure... He is harmful to Israel's image, to the judicial system, to values, and the prime minister does not condemn his statements because he relies on him."

He added, "The Israeli majority will defeat the government of extremists. This is a large and overwhelming majority, the millions of Israelis who say to the government: We will not abandon our country and the future of our children."

The organizers of the protests said, in a statement before the start of the demonstrations, that "Israel is bleeding, the economy is collapsing, and in this government of destruction, they continue the race towards turning Israel into a religious dictatorship, incitement, exclusion, neglect, and trampling on the values of equality and justice."

They continued: "This government is illegitimate, and Israel can only be saved through firm and uncompromising protest. We will fight it together until we are victorious."

On July 24, the Israeli Knesset voted, in the second and third readings, on a bill abolishing the reasonableness argument, thus becoming an effective law despite widespread internal objections.

The law would prevent Israeli courts, including the Supreme Court, from applying what is known as the "standard of reasonableness" to decisions made by elected officials.

The law abolishing the reasonableness argument is one of the 8 bills put forward by the Israeli government as part of its plan to weaken the judiciary.

The Netanyahu government seeks to make radical amendments to the legal and judicial systems, to almost completely eliminate the Supreme Court's authority for judicial review, and to give the government an automatic majority in the judges' selection committee, which a wide segment of Israelis sees as "targeting democracy and undermining the judicial system."

Since the plan was announced in early January, tens of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated weekly to denounce the government that Netanyahu formed in December and its plan to weaken the "judiciary".

By order of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Princess Lalla Hasnaa received, Saturday, at the Guest Palace in Rabat, the Jerusalemite children participating in the 14th session of the summer camp organized by the Beit Mal Jerusalem Agency.

The camp, which is organized under the high patronage of King Mohammed VI, Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, and at the initiative of the Bayt Mal Al-Quds Agency, reflects the special care that the King, gives to the Holy City and its inhabitants.

This initiative comes to enhance the work of the Bait Mal Al-Quds Agency, which aims to support the Holy City of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, through various projects with a clear and obvious impact on Jerusalemites, especially women, children and people in difficult situations.

The total number of beneficiaries of the summer camps program of the Beit Mal Al-Quds Agency since its launch in 2008, which reached its 14th session this year, is a total of 700 children from different neighborhoods of the Holy City, accompanied by 70 coaches, who visited various regions of the Kingdom and stood on the strength of Moroccan solidarity with the Palestinians. .

Similar to the previous courses, Jerusalemite children (male and female) between the ages of 11 and 14, who were accompanied by admins from the Holy City, benefited from the camp's current session, which was dubbed the "Green March" and organized from 10 to 26 August.

Subsequently, Mr. Muhammad Salem Al-Sharqawi, the director in charge of running the Beit Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency, presented a book on the chronology of the summer camp sessions in Morocco for the benefit of the children of Jerusalem 2008-2023.

On this occasion, Princess Lalla Hasnaa took a souvenir photo with the Jerusalemite children participating in the camp and their sponsors.

Occupation gunboats opened fire, this evening, Saturday, at fishermen's boats in the Rafah Sea, south of the Gaza Strip.

According to local sources, the occupation boats stationed in the open sea of Rafah opened heavy machine-gun fire at the fishermen's boats operating at sea, forcing them to leave and retreat, without any casualties among the fishermen.

The occupation forces deliberately target fishermen on a daily basis to prevent them from obtaining their livelihood.

Today, Saturday evening, settlers attacked citizens in the village of Al-Mazraa Al-Gharbiya, northwest of Ramallah.

According to local sources, a group of settlers stormed the "Na'alan" area in the village of Al-Mazra'a Al-Gharbia, and attacked the citizens who tried to confront them, without any injuries reported.

It is noteworthy that settlers storm the aforementioned area continuously, attacking citizens on their lands and trying to provoke them.

Prisoners' institutions and national and Islamic forces in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate organized, this Saturday evening, a stand in the city center of Ramallah, in support of the prisoner Walid Daqqa, and the sick and hunger-striking prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons.

The participants in the vigil raised Palestinian flags and pictures of the prisoner Daqqa, and chanted patriotic slogans in support of him and all the prisoners, especially the sick and hunger-striking prisoners, rejecting the repressive Israeli occupation practices against the prisoners, and emphasizing their right to freedom.

The head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, Qaddoura Fares, said that the vigil represents a message of fulfillment to the Palestinian prisoners in their concerns and aspirations, and an expression of rejection of brutality and fascism, which is manifested in its worst forms in the policies, procedures and statements of the occupation leaders who are taking revenge on all of us through the prisoner Walid Daqqa and the rest of the sick prisoners.

Fares added that the stand is also an expression of support for the steady struggle led by the administrative prisoners in the face of the racist administrative detention law, as well as an appeal to the Palestinian people that today we need unity of action and increased participation in all activities supporting the struggle of the prisoners.

And Fares indicated that the prisoner’s condition is deteriorating continuously in light of the continued policy of medical neglect against him, and because he is in a place that is not suitable for housing sick cases, noting that doctors have warned of the possibility of contamination or infection with a virus due to his weak immunity, and that his continued presence in a contaminated place “is like putting him in a mouth of death."

Sana Daqqa, the wife of prisoner Walid, expressed her and his family's appreciation for the efforts of all the participants in the vigil, noting that the prisoners are in dire need of these support vigils.

She added that the prisoner, Daqqa, suffers from a complex health condition, and that he needs to be free in order to be able to receive permanent treatment, noting that there is a lot to do for him and that he is now in a race against time, as his health condition is very sensitive and needs special medical attention.

She indicated that an appeal was submitted to the Israeli Supreme Court against the Central Court's refusal to release her captive husband, Walid Daqqa, pointing out that expectations from her are not high, but it is "a door they can only knock" in the hope of his release, stressing the necessity of continuing advocacy activities for her husband until his liberation.

The prisoner, Daqqa, was admitted to the hospital, on the 23rd of last March, after his health condition deteriorated sharply, after he was diagnosed with myelofibrosis, a rare cancer of the bone marrow, on the 18th of December 2022, which developed from leukemia that was diagnosed. Nearly ten years ago, he was left without serious treatment.

On April 27, the occupation prison administration allowed the prisoner’s wife, Daqqa, and his daughter, Milad, to visit him in Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, after he underwent an operation to remove part of his right lung, on April 12. And that after procrastination that lasted more than two weeks.

The prisoner Daqqa is one of the most prominent prisoners in the occupation prisons, and he contributed to many paths in the detention life of the prisoners, and during his long career in detention he produced many books, studies and articles and contributed cognitively to understanding the prison experience and its resistance, and among the most prominent publications of the prisoner Daqqa: “Parallel Time”, “Diaries of the Resistance in the Jenin Camp,” “The Melting of Consciousness,” “The Tale of the Secret of Oil,” and, more recently, “The Tale of the Secret of the Sword.”

Dozens of settlers organized, this Saturday evening, a provocative march in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

Under the protection of the occupation soldiers, the settlers roamed the streets of Old Jerusalem, reaching the Al-Buraq Wall, chanting racist slogans and performing Talmudic rituals in the markets of the Old City, specifically in Al-Wad Street and Al-Qattaneen Market.

The Hebrew Channel 12 reported, on Saturday evening, that the Egyptian authorities had arrested an Israeli last Thursday at the Taba border crossing.

According to the Hebrew channel, the detainee is a resident of Holon, south of Tel Aviv, and he was arrested after several bullets were found in his possession.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that it is following up his case and working for his release.

Dozens of settlers attacked, this Saturday evening, the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

According to local sources, dozens of settlers from the "Yesh Kodesh" outpost built on the citizens' lands attacked the southeastern area of the town, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, amid heavy shooting.

The same sources added that the townspeople confronted the settlers, which led to clashes in the area.

Today, Saturday, 5 people were injured, two of them seriously, after they were subjected to a shooting in the town of Kafr Kanna.

In Kafr Kanna, the injured, members of one family, were shot by masked men while they were in the yard of a house, according to local sources.

According to Magen David Adom, the condition of a 55-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman was described as serious, while the condition of a 17-year-old man was described as moderate, and two other injured were light.

Medical staff provided initial treatment to the injured, and then they were quickly transferred to Buria Hospital and the English Hospital in Nazareth for treatment.

The number of murder victims committed in the Arab community since the beginning of this year until now has reached 148, which is an unprecedented record.

Murder crimes in Arab society have become commonplace over the past years, in light of the police’s failure to play its role in eliminating organized crime, amid indications of the complicity of the Israeli security services with criminal organizations.

This comes amidst the criminals' feeling of impunity, noting that most of the crimes are related to work in usury and the black market, and settling scores between criminal gangs.

Two people were injured today, Saturday, in two separate stabbing crimes committed in the towns of Al-Zarazir and Qalansuwa in the 48 territories.

In Al-Zarazir, a 38-year-old man sustained moderate injuries as a result of a stabbing crime at a gas station. He was transferred to Rambam Hospital in Haifa to complete treatment.

In Qalansawa, a 35-year-old man was wounded, described as moderate, after he was stabbed in the town. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club held the occupation authorities fully responsible for the fate of the wounded detainee, Anwar Issam Abdel-Ghani (21 years old) from the town of Sidon / Tulkarm, who was shot by the occupation army, during a raid on his family’s home, at dawn last Wednesday 8/23/2023.

The Prisoners Club stated that the wounded Abdul-Ghani suffered a (serious) injury in the (thighs), and according to the available information, he underwent surgery and is still undergoing treatment in the Israeli Rambam Hospital.

In this context, the Prisoners Club pointed out that the occupation forces, in addition to escalating arrest campaigns and intensifying crimes against detainees and their families, have also escalated the arrest of the wounded, whether those who were shot and arrested later, or those who were injured during their arrest.

It is noteworthy that the occupation has escalated, during the past few days, more than 120 detainees, which have prolonged since Tuesday.

The security of the Israeli Knesset decided to increase the security of a member of the Arab List, Ayman Odeh, after his statements against the organizations that lead criminal operations among the Palestinians of the occupied territories.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Odeh's life is in danger after these statements.

The Fatah Movement's Revolutionary Council affirmed, on Saturday, the continuation of the escalation of popular resistance in all locations and the formation of popular resistance committees to confront the settlers.

In a closing statement of its eleventh session, the Council called on all factions to give this file the utmost importance and to engage in popular resistance action.

And he decided to continue the national dialogue with “Fatah” partners in the PLO, activate and develop its departments and frameworks in all fields, give sufficient attention to the Palestinians in the diaspora camps, especially the camps in Lebanon and Ain al-Hilweh in particular, and confront attempts to target the movement and the PLO, and work to rebuild the camps in Syria, and confront the Israeli targeting of the West Bank camps, attempts to dry up UNRWA's funding sources, and the continuation of work with expatriates in the world.

The Council, in its statement,  also decided to continue the dialogue with those outside the Palestine Liberation Organization on the aforementioned basis, with the aim of ending the division and its disastrous consequences for the entire national project.

He stressed that Jerusalem is the essence of the Palestinian national project and the eternal capital, and there is no peace, security or stability without the consecration and independence of the Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, as an Arab, Islamic and Christian city.

He stressed that there is no state in Gaza or a state without Gaza, and that the return of Gaza to the political system and geographical unity will remain a priority for the "Fatah" movement.

The Revolutionary Council decided to keep the work of its current session in a permanent state to follow up on the field and political situation.

The National Office for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlements said that the so-called "five-year plan for the development of East Jerusalem for the years 2024-2028", which was approved by the Israeli government last Sunday, aims to serve the efforts of Judaization and Israeliization and deepening settlement in East Jerusalem.

This plan was accompanied by the Israeli Minister of Jerusalem and Traditions, Meir Porush, at a value of three billion two hundred million shekels, in addition to a budget of half a billion shekels for the project of the so-called "Holy Basin" for Judaization and settlement strengthening in Old Jerusalem.

This five-year plan is the result of work that lasted a year and a half, in which teams from the Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs, the Jerusalem Municipality, the "Governmental Company for the Development of East Jerusalem" and the right-wing and extremist "Jerusalem Institute for Policy Studies" participated.

The occupation government had discussed that plan in previous meetings, specifically in the meeting it held in tunnels under the Al-Buraq Wall yard last May on the occasion of the occupation of East Jerusalem and the so-called 56th anniversary of the "unification of Jerusalem". It took a number of decisions to finance large-scale settlement projects and settlement associations in Occupied Jerusalem, while the five-year plan was approved "within a principled framework", it was not without many reservations made by the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Settlement in the Ministry of Defense Bezalel Smotrich and the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir and other ministers of a government that is the most extremist and racist in the history of the occupying state.

Porush claimed that the plan aims to reduce the social and economic disparities between the two parts of the city, describing it as responding to about twenty issues that require urgent attention, especially with regard to education and infrastructure, claiming that his government invests in the Arab population because it is the most humane thing.

As for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he claimed that he would not forget Jerusalem, the capital, even for a single minute, and affirmed his government's commitment to helping all its residents, noting that the sums that will be employed in civil services in the east of the city are the largest in history.

The new plan came to replace a previous five-year plan that expires at the end of this year, and its budget was reduced twice, from 4 to 2.1 billion shekels. One of its most prominent results was the deepening of the differences between East and West Jerusalem instead of reducing them.

When the draft plan was circulated to the ministries before it was presented to the government meeting and its news was leaked, it was met with a protest from a number of ministries that were not aware of the existence of the plan in the first place, and claimed that the plan would lead to a reduction in their budgets without prior coordination.

Indeed, the plan will depend on its financing on the contribution of a number of ministries and on the contribution of the occupation municipality in Jerusalem, distributed by about 2.450 billion shekels from the ministries’ budgets, and about 750 million shekels from the Jerusalem municipality, the innovation authority, the electricity company, and others.

This clearly means that the approved budget is not fixed and is subject to considerations related to the work of those ministries and the work of the municipality, which is what actually happened with the previous five-year plan, whose ceiling decreased by half in the context of the years of its operation.

What is noteworthy here is the contribution of the occupation municipality throughout the years of the plan. The occupation municipality approved its annual budget for the year 2023 with a value of 8.42 billion shekels. Assuming that the municipality’s budget will remain the same for the next five years, which is an illogical assumption, the total of these budgets will range Between 42 billion and 45 billion shekels, of which about 750 million shekels were allocated to East Jerusalem, according to the plan, in partnership with the Innovations Authority, the Electricity Company, and others, which is a meager and absurd number just like the meager and absurd number that the plan singled out for the health sector, at a time when the Palestinians make up about 35% of the population In the city and they pay according to official data 30% of the value of taxes collected by the occupation municipality, the municipality does not spend on the services provided to them only 8% of the total services provided by the municipality to the public.

According to the government’s decision, the five-year plan includes investments in various sectors, including the education sector, at a value of 800 shekels, whose main function is the Israelization and Judaization of educational curricula, the employment sector in economic development, at a value of 506 million shekels, to integrate Palestinians into the Israeli labor market, and the infrastructure sector, at a value of 833 million shekels, for urban integration between the two parts of the city in order to enhance settlement encroachment, the legal planning sector and the design of public buildings at a value of 132 million shekels to complete the theft and looting of lands and register them as absent property or in the names of Jewish owners and settlement associations, and the resident services sector at a value of 900 million shekels to expand community control over the Jerusalemites, in addition to control Security through increasing the number of police and municipal inspectors, adding surveillance cameras, and establishing other police stations in occupied Jerusalem.

As for the commitment of the Israeli government in this plan to build 2,000 apartments for the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem annually, it is an old and false commitment by all standards, especially taking into account the previous five-year plan and the non-stop policy of demolishing Palestinian homes and facilities.

Not only that, but the so-called plan for the development of East Jerusalem neglected what is more dangerous in the context of the policy of Judaization, Israelization and silent displacement, through the expansion of settlement activities as a parallel plan, as the first half of this year recorded records in terms of the number of settlement units that were promoted It has, in the last stage of the process of approving the construction of settlement projects, by building 12,855 settlement units in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, of which 7,082 new settlement units.

Beyond that, the Israeli government approved the allocation of 230 million shekels to complete the American road, or what is known as the eastern ring road in occupied East Jerusalem, as part of the transportation projects included in the five-year plan, and withheld from public opinion that this road robs hundreds of dunams of the lands of Al-Eizariya and Al-Sawahra. , Abu Dis, Al-Tur, Sheikh Saad, Jabal Al-Mukaber, and Sur Baher, and it is designed to connect the Israeli settlements in the south of the city with the "Ma'ale Adumim" settlement east of Jerusalem and has nothing to do with the development of East Jerusalem or the service of the Palestinian citizens of the city.

In addition, it was revealed that the Israeli company "Donna" won the tender for building a new settlement project in the "Benoy" complex in the south, opposite Deir Crimzan, between Al-Walaja and Beit Jala, as part of a more comprehensive project to expand settlement in southern Jerusalem. The company said that the towers will be built from 18 to 22 floors, in addition to a commercial and service complex, playgrounds and gardens.

The urban planner, Engineer Arit Guttenberg, said that she has been working for two years with the board of directors of the "Ramat Shlomo" settlement in order to develop and expand the western area of the settlement, and that an understanding and agreement has been reached with the Special Committee for Building and Settlement Development in the District Committee to add about 134 settlement units in the foothills of Shuafat. In a manner commensurate with the topographical nature of the elevated area along the bypass road 443 Jerusalem, where intensive construction is taking place in this settlement, whose population now exceeds 30,000 settlers.

The plans of Judaization and Israelization and the deepening of settlement in East Jerusalem go hand in hand with vast and unprecedented settlement plans in the rest of the West Bank governorates, as settler leaders, especially in the northern West Bank, see in the current Israeli government their precious opportunity, prompted by the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Settlement in the Ministry of Defense in Bezalel Smotrich and the Settlement Council (Yesha). The settler leaders of the so-called "Samaria Settlement Council" led by Yossi Dagan, one of the hardened fascist and neo-Nazi settlers, implemented a plan to increase the number of settlers in the northern West Bank from about 170,000 to about one million settlers.

For this purpose, they agreed in their annual conference about a year ago to crystallize a plan based on the return to the settlements vacated by former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank, and its circle expands to include the governorates of Nablus, Tulkarem, Qalqilya, and Salfit, as a field vital to an unprecedented settlement expansion.

The regional council entrusted the task of planning this project to engineers and professional consultants with specialization in urban engineering, who worked for a whole year to complete the plan that Dagan carried to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for approval in the plans of his extreme right-wing government.

This plan is based on the return to the settlements of "Homesh", "Ghanim", "Sanor" and "Kadeem" in the Jenin governorate, and the expansion of the "Itamar" settlements in the Nablus governorate, and "Tzufim" in the Qalqilya governorate, and "Saleit" and " Avnei Hefetz" in the Tulkarm governorate, as well as the construction of two new settlements similar to "Modi'in" in the extension of Kafr Qassem towards Salfit. The occupying power, along with hospitals, medical and cultural centers to serve the new settlements.

At the same time, Minister Smotrich is preparing a plan to legalize 155 random settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, using his control over the Ministry of Finance and Civil Administration to implement his plan. The Smotrich plan maps all of the "illegal" Israeli outposts in the West Bank to facilitate the eventual legalization of all of them.

Smotrich began his plan with about 14 illegal settlement outposts, five of which are classified as pastoral settlements, which are, in fact, outposts that house terrorist settlers in the first place, based on the displacement of a number of Bedouin communities such as Ain Samia, Al-Qaboun, Al-Marj, Al-Baqaa, and Ras Al-Tin.

The Smotrich plan currently focuses on outposts in the northern and central West Bank, before moving to the Hebron areas (Masafer Yatta), and the Jordan Valley, where the Palestinian Badia is. The plan includes allocating hundreds of millions of shekels to finance the outposts, in addition to building access roads and connecting them to electricity and water networks. .

Smotrich's plan meets with opposition from levels in the occupation army and the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet), which demanded the formation of a joint team of the concerned government ministries to examine the issue and its possible repercussions.

In the same way that the legalization of unauthorized outposts is circumvented according to the occupation law, the occupation government intends to announce the legalization of two new settlements in the Jerusalem wilderness, namely “Nofei Furat” and “Alon”, and the allocation of hundreds of millions of shekels for them, and the two settlements are currently receiving funding From the "Kfar Adumim" settlement under the pretext that they are from its neighborhoods and thus granting it a new separate infrastructure, in addition to service projects such as kindergartens, clinics and schools.

The government coalition is pushing for a decision that allows for the actual recognition of settlements that do not have an independent official status, and even a direct transfer of budgets to these settlements, and this approach has already been approved by the Israeli Ministry of Justice, and it will be presented for approval by the occupation government in the coming weeks. However, the "Novi Firat" and "Alon" settlements, which are officially considered part of the "Kfar Adumim" settlement, can directly obtain government budgets because they are already operating as independent settlements. Yuval as neighborhoods of the "Eli" settlement between the cities of Nablus and Ramallah.

In light of the anxiety among the settlers, prompting them to demonstrate and seek help and protection from the occupying state, after a series of attacks carried out by Palestinian resistance fighters in recent weeks, Yoav Gallant, the Minister of the Occupation Army, held a meeting with the heads of settlement councils in the West Bank, in which Yehuda Fox, Commander of the Central Region (West Bank), participated. ), after an assessment of the security situation conducted by Gallant with senior officials in his ministry, in which he criticized attacks by settlers on army officers.

In that meeting, the Minister of the Army assured the settler leaders, "It is forbidden to attack the officers, and if you find criticism, attack me," explaining, "I do not mean you, but the Knesset members who attack the army, including members of my (Likud) party."

In that meeting, Gallant expressed the commitment of the occupation army to support settlements, enhance security, improve infrastructure, and secure movement on the streets and roads used by settlers.

In the context, it was recently revealed that a secret meeting was held last February, with the participation of representatives of the Israeli army, the Shin Bet, the Mossad, the National Security Council and other parties, about the protests opposing the judicial amendments led by the Israeli government and the role of the Israeli Supreme Court in providing cover and legal protection for the occupation. Settlement and war crimes against the Palestinians.

The conferees stressed that passing the judicial amendments would weaken its role as an independent and powerful court, and quoted a senior security official who participated in those deliberations as saying, “The Supreme Court in Israel enjoys a prestigious international status, and if loyal judges are appointed, its status will be damaged as a protective shield.” In this case, the workers building the apartheid wall and the soldiers and army officers working in the occupied territories will risk being charged with war crimes in the International Criminal Court under international law.

The so-called Israeli Minister of Security, Yoav Gallant, held a meeting with the heads of the settlements and pledged to provide all the necessary support and assistance to enhance their steadfastness and the survival of their settlements. The Minister of Finance, Smotrich, pledged to provide 700 million shekels for the annexation and Judaization schemes in the West Bank. Likewise, the godfather of settlement in Jerusalem is the Israeli Minister of National Security. Itamar Ben Gvir supports an extremist who leads an extremist party as well, to win the upcoming municipal elections, Arben King,  all of them are talking about Jerusalem, Judaizing it, deepening the Jewish presence in it, and reducing the Palestinian national presence whenever possible.

This Ben Gvir had made racist statements, during which he claimed that his right to movement and mobility in the West Bank is more important than the right to freedom of movement of the Palestinians, and that his right to life is more important than the right of the Palestinians as well.

These racist statements are just examples of what Israeli leaders think, and they are constantly repeated in words and deeds. These racist statements received wide and denouncing reactions on social media. Among the celebrities who denounced them, the famous supermodel Bella Hadid, who has an estimated 60 million followers. On Facebook (it should be noted that this Hadid family fled Nazareth during the 1948 Nakba and the establishment of the State of Israel).

On the other hand, President Abu Mazen said during his presidency of the eleventh session of the Fatah Revolutionary Council that the national authority will not allow the passage of occupation plans that aim to perpetuate this unjust occupation.
The reality is that this occupation only understands the language of force and effective real deterrence, and the repeated statements and declarations that have expired, are no longer of any influence or interest to this expansionist occupation, which has never stopped exercising its greed by confiscating the land and displacing its owners and children.

These occupation practices require, first and foremost, the restoration of Palestinian national unity and an end to this unjust and destructive division of the national position. The occupation knows this very well, and that is why it no longer cares about words and statements and is keen to deepen the division whenever possible. This is what our leaders must think about and work to end this tragic and destructive stage of division and to fragment the national situation and make it weak and unable only to repeat statements and declarations.

Despite the importance of the Middle East region, including the issue of our conflict with the occupation, we are not the center of the universe today in the face of the rapid developments taking place in different regions of the world. It leads to new regional variables and alliances led by Russia and China within the framework of building a new multipolar international order. This includes the ongoing attempts in the region in which we live, which may succeed and develop in the face of Biden’s failure following his previous visit to our region, its repercussions, and the failure of US policies, which are still trying to revive their alliances in different regions, the most important of which is the East Asia and Pacific region to confront China alongside the Eurasia region and what is going on in it of a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia and the East, in addition to what is happening in the African continent.

The United States was unable to achieve what was hoped for as a result of the so-called Arab Spring. It failed to give its ally "Israel" any new impetus in the region other than to maintain its protection and patronage. It was unable to resolve matters in Syria, Iraq and Yemen according to its plans, and it did not stop its negotiations with Iran on the nuclear file. Rather, it reached a prisoner exchange deal with it and released frozen assets for Iran, and this may be a prelude to other deals on the horizon to create a role for local players in the existing equations. Nor did it declare war on Iran, neither politically nor through military maneuvers. Likewise, it did not succeed in gifting Israel an "Arab NATO under its leadership" in the face of Tehran to serve the goal of Israeli supremacy.

In my opinion, the United States will not succeed in concluding a Saudi-Israeli normalization that goes beyond the general framework of the Arab initiative, international resolutions, and the demands of Saudi Arabia itself, in addition to the presence of religious Zionist obstacles and the opposition of a number of members of Congress from the Democratic Party due to various considerations in front of concluding that deal that is being talked about by Israel, in the service of saving Netanyahu’s position .

The region is full of variables, and the repercussions of the beginning of the end of unipolarity and American hegemony have become evident in the positions of the countries of the region following the war that the West has fabricated in Ukraine to confront Russian and Chinese expansion. And the Arab countries do not want to confine themselves to the polar basket of the United States, which is crumbling, after some of them got used to that in the past. Today, they are looking forward to close relations with China and Russia on the one hand, and with Iran on the other hand as a neighboring country, while maintaining non-hostile relations with the United States.

A number of Arab countries were accepted today during the BRICS summit, which is being held in South Africa, and there are others who wish to join later. Groups such as BRICS or Shanghai Economic will turn into political entities in a new geopolitical reality, with financial transactions far from the dominance of the dollar. Where the BRICS countries constitute about a little less than half of the world's area and population. Also, the accession of the new countries constitutes a qualitative development, which has its repercussions, especially in the Middle East, and on the issue of the petro-dollar, with the accession of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and perhaps Algeria later.

A number of Third World countries, in general, aspire to join these groups and contribute to consolidating the ability of the South to confront and change the prevailing world order, which has been dominated by Western mechanisms and rules since after World War II. This is what prevented these countries from achieving development, and did not help the growth of the countries of the South, which accuse the countries of the North of double standards and the practice of contemporary forms of colonialism and the control and theft of wealth. This is something that work to get rid of today, has become a feature of a number of African countries, such as Niger and others, led by young patriotic officers.

It is the same approach that prevailed in the Latin continent previously and led to the success of the new or radical left parties in reaching the reins of power and succeeding in repelling American trends.

In Europe, the coming winter will be stormy for the governments of the European Union, in which the right wing has risen to power. And those who stand in support of Israel's policies, i.e., the countries of the European Union, pay the price for their subordination and being drawn into American policies. The European peoples, whose popular and progressive forces are in solidarity with the causes and struggle of our people, will not bear the repercussions of the sanctions imposed on Russia and China. Which did not achieve its goals, and the European peoples will take to the streets of their capitals, if not before next winter, as has been the case for some time in a number of European Union countries, in confrontation with the political, economic and social policies of their neoliberal governments. Which is currently leading to an increase in poverty, the high cost of living and unemployment, due to its military involvement in Ukraine, which is draining its resources.

In America, the crisis of the economic system is exacerbated by the inflation of the dollar, banking crises, unemployment, poverty, and social crises that are represented by the increase in crimes and manifestations of white supremacy, and the widening of the multiple ethnic differences in those societies. Which is now threatening the stability of the political system itself there, especially after the problems of the previous elections and the course of Trump’s trial now, and the results of the US Congressional elections, and the results of the upcoming presidential elections soon, in front of the decline in the popularity of Biden and his Democratic Party. Which may contribute to encouraging the European populist right in the event that the Republican conservatives win, especially their candidate De Santas, who belongs to the Zionist movement.

On the other hand, the crisis that has existed for years regarding the recurrence of elections in Israel and the rift taking place in them today, opens the doors to multiple possibilities, from the fall of the current Netanyahu government, or to its amendment with the entry of Gantz, or to a form of civil war and other possibilities between them that will not be Easy to solve. Rather, the crisis of the system's structural and political identity will deepen, to be reflected in its social and economic stability. Which may produce competing entities within the framework of what they seek according to the biblical and Zionist faith, and international criticism regarding apartheid policies will increase even from non-Zionist Jewish organizations around the world. This will plunge the Zionist movement, which today is experiencing paradoxes between the liberal and the religious, and the East and the West, into a crisis of variables related to the alleged "moral, civilized and democratic" face of Israel, which it has always claimed. And the impact of the decline of American hegemony and the unilateral polarity of the West, the main supporter of Israel. His policies still revolve in the orbit of joint Israeli, American and European cooperation, despite their verbal stances on settlements, which did not rise to the level of accountability and sanctions, as it was a dust in the eyes, and gave an indirect green light for the continuation of this and the actual sustainability of the colonial occupation.

This settler occupation state will therefore try to export its internal crises towards more repression against our people and settlement and Judaization projects according to its vision, and its implementation in escalating forms, from state terrorism to create a state of religious Zionist national consensus on that, in addition to resorting to the scarecrow of the Persian enemy.

Where the new plan of the occupation government includes intensifying construction in the settlements and turning them into cities, and building new cities to accommodate a million new settlers during the coming years.

Faced with these facts, the coming days will come with more clarifications about the repercussions of those changes and transformations taking place on us and on the world. This is if it does not lead to new wars, especially in our region, despite the decline in the Israeli deterrence capabilities in the face of the development of the capabilities of other parties, and the problems facing the occupation army and its security institution in light of the circumstances of the current division and the position of religious people regarding conscription.

The current international changes are perhaps the most important since the Second World War. While NATO will continue to insist on continuing to consider it a tool of American and Western hegemony, Russia, China and other BRICS countries will invest in expanding their membership and economic, political and even military cooperation, as the total output of their countries exceeds that of the Group of Seven. The importance of launching the new development bank of the BRICS group in the hope of developing reforms in the international financial system and breaking the monopoly and hegemony of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which worked to impoverish many countries around the world, lies in creating a sustainable international balance in the face of Western hegemony and towards a new system to achieve justice and equality that people await. , including our Palestinian people in front of the inability of the UN Security Council to solve international problems.

It is likely that the result of this ongoing conflict, despite its difficulties, will constitute the features of the coming future of humanity, including the future of the cause of our Palestinian people within the framework of the current geopolitical positions in which we must improve our position.

Netanyahu seeks to abolish the powers of the Israeli Supreme Court, to achieve two goals: the first is to serve himself with the aim of ending the case of the criminal charges on which he is being tried, and expunging them, as if they did not exist, and the second is in response to the demands of the government coalition parties: 1- the extreme right-wing, and 2- the religious and extremist Jews, and for this he seeks to cancel the powers of the Israeli Supreme Court. But what are the goals of the right-wing and religious parties, and their strict adherence to canceling the powers of the Supreme Court?.

The pursuit of politically and religiously extremist parties is due to two fundamental reasons:

First - Approving the recommendations of the Central Elections Commission, regarding the non-acceptance of the candidacy of the Palestinian Arab parties 1- The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality, 2- The Islamic Movement, 3- The National Democratic Assembly, 4- The Arab Movement for Change. Whereas the Central Elections Committee is traditionally composed of representatives of the participating parties in Parliament, that is, it is formed periodically every four years from all the parties that succeeded in the previous session, to decide on the nomination of the parties or their representatives in the subsequent session, and because it is composed of politically right-wing and Jewish religious parties, they mostly vote against the participation of Arab parties in Parliament, and object to their representatives, under the pretext of their support for terrorism, extremism, or hostility to "Israel".

The Arab parties resort to the Supreme Court after the Elections Commission has rejected their candidacy, and the court often takes a decision against the Elections Commission, and supports the recommendation of the nomination of the Palestinian Arab parties for membership in the Israeli parliament, and for this reason the extreme right-wing parties and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious parties seek to cancel the powers of the Supreme Court for this reason. The court stands objectively with the right of Arab parties and representatives to run for membership in the Israeli Knesset.

Second - The Israeli Supreme Court upholds the grievances of the Palestinians, the people of the West Bank and Jerusalem, whose private lands registered in their names are being seized and confiscated by settlers, so they turn to the court that upholds their grievances, and rejects the colonial settlers' collective seizure of the private lands of the Palestinians, and rejects their unilateral initiatives to seize Palestinian lands. , without prior government decisions, and therefore the Israeli court often takes decisions against colonial settler initiatives to seize Palestinian homes and lands without prior official government decisions.

For these and other reasons, the government coalition that resulted from the elections for the Knesset No. 25 on 1/11/2022 is working to change the powers of the Supreme Court, with the aim of achieving two main purposes:

The first: Preventing the candidacy and participation of Arab parties and their Palestinian deputies who are running for membership in Parliament, as these most likely constitute a preponderance and a title of support for the parties of the center and the left in Parliament in the face of the right-wing and religious parties who constitute the parliamentary voting majority, in the face of the centrist and left parties (according to Israeli values and concepts, figuratively). ), and thus the Arab representatives form a state of completion in providing and finding a balance between the two conflicting parties over the issues of Israeli society: 1- The centrist and leftist parties in confrontation, 2- The right-wing and religious parties.

The second: to prevent all legal procedures issued by the Israeli Supreme Court, which prevent colonial settlers from seizing private Palestinian lands and homes.

It is clear that this approach to abolish the powers of the Supreme Court aims to achieve two steps in one blow. The first is directed against the Palestinians of Areas 48, and the second is directed at the Palestinians of Areas 67.