The least that can be said is that misfortunes do not come singly. After a bold, honest, and transparent reading of the class structure of the fragile financial situation suffered by the Authority, came the warning from Finance Minister Estefan Salameh that this year will be the most difficult in the Authority's history, given the punitive Israeli policies it faces, which rely on drying up its sources and pressuring its raw nerves to embarrass it before removing it from its national roles and responsibilities, which are based on international legal references. These references are being shattered and their arms amputated under the pretext of their obsolescence and corruption, as a prelude to replacing them with the rules of "Little Saint James" Island, known as Epstein's Island.The statements of the minister, an expert in public finance management and attracting external support, were not surprising to those familiar with the Authority's financial, economic, and political conditions. The relationship between economy and politics is like the relationship between a car and its tires; when the air runs out of the tires, the car inevitably runs on its rims, and then, as the brave minister described, all earthly solutions come to an end.Is this an invitation to surrender to fate and succumb to despair regarding changing circumstances and conditions? The answer is a resounding no. The disclosure is an early warning, a knocking on the tank walls before it's too late, just as it is a resounding cry, perhaps touching the hearts and minds of those who survived the abomination of that demonic island, where consciences and universal values were eradicated with unsterilized tools, so that humanity might regain its humanity, heal itself from its diseases, and wash away the impurities that corrupted its soul; for the persistence of the status quo is impossible.The drying up of sources that the minister warned about is not merely a budget deficit, but rather a desperate attempt to "engineer free fall"; so that our salvation from the tyranny of our enemies becomes our goal, and that we beg for our rights at the tables of the wicked on "Devil's Island." The Palestinian Year of Ash does not need miracles, as much as it needs a political will that rejects bartering rights for a loaf of bread, and realizes that the car running on "rims" may stop, but it will soon resume its journey on the path of Golgotha until it reaches its end.
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The Year of Ash!