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Shaker Hasanat
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FROM PALESTINE
July 8, 2007 - 08:51 AM
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Political initiative by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine to all the forces and personalities and institutions of civil society, towards a peaceful and democratic solution to the internal crisis
the Palestinian people today is the most serious internal crisis threatens to destroy everything continuation achievements of the decades of struggle and sacrifices. The first time since the launch of the Palestinian revolution contemporary, is the unity of the Palestinian national risk of disruption, waste, and the ambitions of the enemy separating Gaza from the West Bank, the crisis reaches grinding the Palestinian political system to the brink of collapse.
The crisis reached its peak recourse to arms to resolve internal differences, and the deliberate decisiveness of a struggle for power by armed force, and the accompanying shameful practices alien to the traditions and customs of our people. These practices have constituted grave encroachment of the red lines, and the destruction of bridges of national dialogue and departure from the legitimacy and the principles and standards of democracy.
But the bitterness caused by the split in the soul should not overshadow the catastrophic risks involved in the continuing division-Palestinian and devote political and institutional separation between the West Bank and Gaza, and leads to the weakening of the Palestinian national struggle and a distortion of the image of the destruction of his achievements. To devote this situation opens the door wide open to various forms of external interference in Palestinian internal affairs, and conjure eras of trusteeship and containment and placement, and leads to the gradual erosion of the legitimacy of tearing the singularity of Palestinian representation and dispel independence. It feeds Israel's claim to the absence of a Palestinian partner and give it a pretext to escalate its aggression and repudiation of the benefits of international legitimacy and evading the requirements of the solution.
That out of this tragic situation is a top priority of every Palestinian keen on the future of the national cause. That dictates leave accounts agendas sectional interests and rise above the factional interests and short-sighted self for the sake of the language of reason and the higher national interest.
Any solution to the current crisis necessarily require a comprehensive national no way to reach him only through dialogue. But agent dialogue becomes a stand-alone or a cover to create a fait accompli imposed by force of arms,
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Christine
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Re: FROM PALESTINE
July 13, 2007 - 04:38 PM
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I could not agree with you anymore! As a Canadian-Palestinian I was disheartened and discouraged to see our people fighting each other. I know however they are not the Palestinian people per say, yet the militias struggling for power. A loss in which Fatah could not handle and decided to take arms and money from Israel and the US (i.e. Muhammad Dahlan).Even more, I know the reason for their fighting is not only the fault of Palestinians. Finally, I know I may have no right to say this living in the comfort of Canada, yet the only real way for us to succeed is to have a new national strategy. For me, I don't think it is a matter of having or not having a Palestinian state, it is about fighting for our civil liberties and right of return first and foremost. Will a state really end our occupation or problems? It may make us more economically comfortable, but will it make us free. Perhaps it becomes necessary to also decolonize our mindset and end first our cultural (I hate to use this word, read Edward Said) occupation?
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Luke Lieberman
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Re: FROM PALESTINE
July 14, 2007 - 01:04 PM
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to answer your question, yes having a state will help your economy and end the occupation -
but to have a state you are going to have to cooperate with the Israelis at some level because they will not tolerate a neighbor state which is set on Israeli's destruction and refuses to police itself.
The Palestinian economy would be stronger in general if more effort and energy was put toward promoting education in science, civics, engineering medicine etc - and less into religious study and warfare.
When "hero" in Palestine is doctor, or athlete - and not a suicide bomber - then your economy will turn around.
you reolize that the most high tech economy in the world is right next door - you have much more to gain by working with the Israelis - then fighting an endless war with them.
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Re: FROM PALESTINE
July 15, 2007 - 11:58 PM
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To be quite honest, a state that and has no control over its borders, airspace, water, and encircled by a wall will more closely resemble Bantustans and anything but a sovereign state. What kind of state were you exactly imagining?
I completely agree, cooperation is as a necessity and must be mutual. For this reason, if Palestinians are given their civil rights, and I mean equal civil rights like every Jewish resident in Israel and the occupied territories, they in turn would end all violence and allow Israelis to live in security. Living in peace and security should be given to both nationalities. Only when Israelis begin to treat Palestinians as human beings (a state that occupies a people can only think of the people they are occupying as inferior) and hate is diminished on both sides can we even begin talking about cooperation with a high tech economy.
Also may I add that Palestinians, despite their hardships remain the most educated Arab population in the Middle East. It is not education they lack yet opportunity and freedom from occupation in order that they may refine themselves in other ways. This idea that Palestinians are educated in warfare is anything but true. Children do not need to open up textbooks in order to be brainwashed and dislike Israeli soldiers, they just need to live under the occupation and as such, children are brainwashed by the reality of the occupation. Likewise, Israeli society continues to live in fear and therefore, the fighting should stop on both sides, for we all know that neither side could possibly fully eliminate the other. We also know that it will not be Palestinians who destroy Israel, yet as many Israeli’s have argued, it will be a refusal to end the occupation and continue in this manner that would lead to the demise of Israel. Finally recognizing Israel as a state that exists is very different from recognizing its right as a Jewish state. That is all for now, I hope you better understand the position I am coming from.
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