Unity is a Priority and a Guarantee for Preserving National Destiny

The American draft resolution: Risks of disassembly and the collapse of national representation

The American draft resolution to the Security Council regarding Gaza carries significant risks for the future of the national destiny as a whole. It is full of holes in various articles, but the most dangerous aspect is the erasure of the unified representation of the Palestinian people, the division of their already fragmented land, the dismantling of responsibility for managing people's affairs, and the transformation of the Palestinian situation into disconnected islands. This not only targets the representation but, if not confronted, could lead to the final overthrow of the unity of the cause and national destiny.

This form encourages the racist Tel Aviv government to rescue and modernize its crumbling narrative, according to the realities it seeks to impose, by denying not only national rights but also continuing to deny the existence of the Palestinian people themselves.

The question of destiny: Is what is imposed upon us an inevitable fate?

The real question we must face as Palestinians first, so that we can invest the half-full cup of global changes supporting the justice of the Palestinian cause—out of which millions have taken to the streets around the world, including in the capitals of international decision-making—is: Are these realities that the Israeli-American alliance seeks to impose an inevitable fate that cannot be resisted? And is it reasonable that the government of Tel Aviv, which is condemned for genocide and internationally isolated and besieged, would be in a position to impose its political conditions, which verge on surrender, on the Palestinian people and their national destiny, especially when it has not managed to achieve a military victory that qualifies it to do so?

The national impasse: Between popular sacrifices and the absence of national decision-making

Frankly, this option cannot be ruled out unless we scrutinize the Palestinian situation, which is characterized by a shocking and unprecedented contradiction between the immense sacrifices made and being made by the Palestinian people and the nature and symptoms of the situation dominating the general landscape and national decision-making. This continues to be governed by the roots and repercussions of division and the refusal to stop and review the extent of damage it has inflicted on the national cause, threatening these sacrifices with squandering and converting them into net losses without value or national return.

Lost bets and political illusions

Despite the dominant Palestinian parties in the general scene being aware of what Israel is planning and continues to execute on the ground, these parties continue to entrench themselves behind positions that can only be interpreted as a continuation of lost bets that have amounted to mere pipe dreams.
The National Authority's effort to grasp Gaza merely by having a minister from its government chair what is called a local technocratic committee, considering that this provides political unity between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, comes within the context of the belief that such a formula will enable it to circumvent Israel’s plans for a complete separation between them. This is what Hamas believes as well, without either of them scrutinizing that this only means surrendering to the principle that Israel continues to impose, in collaboration with the Trump administration, to separate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state and exacerbating the fragmentation of the collective national identity.

A transitional national unity government... a necessity, not an option

This danger can only be addressed by a unified political stance and comprehensive representative frameworks whose timing is not yet overdue. This is a readily available weapon and has already been agreed upon in the Beijing Declaration calling for the formation of a national unity government authorized by all political and social components, not only to preserve the unity of the identity but also to bear full responsibility for addressing Gaza’s issues, armed with national consensus and popular support capable of thwarting Tel Aviv’s plans, revitalizing the energies of the Palestinian people to reconstruct Gaza and enhance the resilience of the West Bank to close the danger of displacement and open the road to independence—all of which requires preparing to hold elections within an agreed timeframe, with strict adherence to the results.

The National Authority and the contradictions of the concept of unity

Continuing to turn a blind eye to this option reveals a structural paradox and a fundamental contradiction in its approach to the concept and requirements of national unity and its ability to confront the looming dangers. It also represents a continuation of its formal vision and policy of dominance and exclusion that contradict the requirements of unity within a pluralistic framework, amid an insistence on continuing to appease external parties at the expense of the highest interests of the Palestinian people.
Holding on to a government formed according to a divisive vision, which has failed to manage or govern the West Bank for this very reason, makes it unable to operate in Gaza without national consensus. This contradiction reflects the continuation of a unilateral control approach that transforms division from a national impasse into a tool of dominance used by the authority to control the political space and maintain its influence within the existing division, with no readiness to change it.

The Authority's discourse on "protecting unity" is limited to providing political cover for the continued management of division through new tools that reproduce the crisis instead of addressing it. Rather than engaging in a consensual path to restore legitimacy to the political system, the Authority seeks to reframe the Gaza Strip within a framework of administrative and political dependency, with no commitment to reconstructing the Palestinian social contract based on participation and citizenship.
Thus, the technocratic committee for Gaza transforms from a step towards restoring unity into a tool for beautifying division, and the reconstruction file becomes a new arena for conflict over influence and representation instead of being an entry point for healing the national wound.

Hamas and the dilemma of dual legitimacy

At the same time, Hamas does not exhibit sufficient seriousness towards advancing towards a comprehensive national unity government, believing that its continued control, albeit indirectly, over part of the Gaza Strip, despite the aggressive war aimed at uprooting it, grants it a legitimacy that almost, from its perspective, compensates for its participation in a unity government in which it is not involved. This increases the importance of forming a real national consensus government, as it is the only means to restore national legitimacy and ensure the unity of Palestinian decision-making, preventing any party from transforming temporary regional control into a substitute for national legitimacy—an action that only serves Israel’s strategic objectives.
 

The trap of reconstruction detached from the unity of the national project

Practically, this approach allows Israel to entrench the separation between Gaza and the West Bank, whether through field security arrangements or by imposing a model of "Gaza as rebuildable" under international supervision, absolving the occupation of its legal and political responsibilities and transforming the Strip into a divided and separate entity, stripped of sovereignty and national belonging. To avoid this plan, it is essential to link reconstruction with a comprehensive national project that redefines Palestinian responsibility based on representative partnership and ensures the management of the process as part of a state-building effort, not as an isolated humanitarian project. This cannot be achieved without the following immediate measures:

First: Forming a transitional national consensus government with real powers to manage the West Bank and Gaza in accordance with a unified vision and an agreed-upon national program, so that legitimacy becomes an effective tool and not merely a symbolic title.

Second: Transparent management of the reconstruction file through an independent national fund subject to national and international oversight, ensuring that resources are directed towards rebuilding human dignity and not to solidifying political division.

Third: Linking any international or Arab contribution to Palestinian unity and ensuring the participation of Palestinians in decision-making, while involving all national forces and popular activities.

Unity is the path to survival and the future

Confronting this contradiction in the Authority's behavior, along with Hamas’s hesitation to proceed towards consensus, is not a political luxury, but a fundamental condition for the survival of the national project itself.
Either the tragedy of Gaza becomes a starting point for rebuilding unity and national legitimacy, ensuring the protection of national destiny and achieving the higher goals of the Palestinian people for freedom, dignity, return, and self-determination, or it is left to be exploited to re-engineer the Palestinian scene in a way that serves the occupation and keeps division as a pillar of the existing system.

Actual national consensus is the only way to thwart any plan to entrench separation or impose partial solutions under the guise of reconstruction, ensuring that rebuilding is a step towards building both the individual and the homeland together.