The World Rises and Moves Except for the Palestinian Political System!

Author: إبراهيم ابراش 

What is happening at the global level is not limited to more recognitions of the sought-after Palestinian state; it can be considered an uprising and a fundamental shift in global public opinion and in the world's view of the Middle East problem and Israel. It can even be said that these global movements and transformations have become a tsunami that Netanyahu and Trump cannot stop. Even if the war stops, and regardless of what will result from Trump’s ambiguous initiative, the world after the ceasefire in Gaza will not return to what it was before in relation to the Palestinian issue and its view of Israel.

However, my fear stems from the inability of the Palestinian political system and the political class to rise to the level of positively interacting with this global transformation. Ironically, this global uprising has no counterparts in serious internal Palestinian movements aimed at achieving national unity and unifying positions both within Palestine and outside it, neither at the level of the PLO and its main pillar, Fatah, nor at the level of the Palestinian Authority, nor at the level of political parties, nor even at the level of society in general, especially civil society organizations.

So what comes after the increase in recognitions of the state? Is there a national strategy based on national consensus ready for implementation after the end of the recognition season of the State of Palestine and after the proposal of Trump’s ambiguous initiative? Or will the Palestinians, after all these recognitions of a Palestinian state and global popular movements, continue to be preoccupied with their internal divisions and with who will govern what remains of Gaza’s homes, land, and the remnants of broken, hungry, exhausted people?

What is the fate of the presidential decree regarding holding elections for the National Council this year, why was it suspended, and who is responsible? Has the time of existing factions and parties ended? Has the time of the PLO as a national liberation movement come to an end, and has priority shifted to the state, which is a state under occupation, especially concerning the residents of the West Bank and Gaza?
And why do the remnants of Hamas still stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that the winds have not blown in accordance with their ships’ desires, and that reason and logic require bending to the storm rather than maneuvering for more time at the expense of the people's suffering?

The existence of Hamas and its arms is not the victory that the people of Palestine seek, just as the recognitions of a Palestinian state under occupation are not the end goal for which the Palestinian struggle began.