In the course of Empire, colonialism, and the domination of Western Hegemony over the Middle East there are very few things over the last few hundred years that are new - in fact, there is nothing new. Men like Abbas and Dahlan clamor like they always have for both money and power, the eternal cry of colonialism is always divide and conquer.
So when the United States proposed it's ideas of Hamas and Fatah duking it out for who the top dog would be, and than arming the most servile faction, Fatah had to win the new low in the conflicts sordid history. This is because Fatah has always seen itself as merely the instrument of policing the Palestinians while the Israelis were allowed to expand their occupation.
So when the United States proposed it's ideas of Hamas and Fatah duking it out for who the top dog would be, and than arming the most servile faction, Fatah had to win the new low in the conflicts sordid history. This is because Fatah has always seen itself as merely the instrument of policing the Palestinians while the Israelis were allowed to expand their occupation.
The battle did not work out as intended, as conceived in the minds of men like Elliot Abrams, so there has been a movement to plan B. Plan B is not something new, it has been used by colonialism from the beginning - make a new "privileged" Palestinian, a sort of elite that gets to have a modicum of dignity and perhaps own some property of it's own.
You can see this play out no matter where you look in colonial enterprises in the past, a sort of fat developed around the midsection of the colonial that wishes to exploit the "native." In India the "raj" set up special territory for the people who were supposed to be the "cut above," which in reality meant they were the most pliant, as long as they were allowed to have their little piece of property and their "privileges (few though they were)."
(Author of the road map to nowhere)
You can see this play out no matter where you look in colonial enterprises in the past, a sort of fat developed around the midsection of the colonial that wishes to exploit the "native." In India the "raj" set up special territory for the people who were supposed to be the "cut above," which in reality meant they were the most pliant, as long as they were allowed to have their little piece of property and their "privileges (few though they were)."
(Author of the road map to nowhere)
What this all boils down to is corruption, and the desire for some form of normalcy (deformity) for the people, at the expense of their "less fortunate" counterparts. Soon there may even be conversations in the West Bank of how bad they feel about "those people over there," and why can't the individuals who are their leaders do something to make their "life easier." It is similar to the structure you see in the United States which is much more fluid, but the contrast will be much sharper in this scenario.
They give the impression that they are going to award them, but the only thing they may receive is just a portion of the tax monies which the Israeli government has withheld contrary to law. The occupier believes that he can isolate the Palestinians, which is just another form of division for the benefit of the occupier. The impression that will be left is that all of the Palestinians could have benefited, but now it has become "apparent" that only the compliant ones "deserve" better treatment.
They give the impression that they are going to award them, but the only thing they may receive is just a portion of the tax monies which the Israeli government has withheld contrary to law. The occupier believes that he can isolate the Palestinians, which is just another form of division for the benefit of the occupier. The impression that will be left is that all of the Palestinians could have benefited, but now it has become "apparent" that only the compliant ones "deserve" better treatment.
(West Bank)
The idea being broached here is that an emergency government is possible, and that even though it crosses the Basic Law (2004) anything goes at this juncture. So the colonial power, and it's extended power which is the USA wants them to follow the same formula of lawlessness and to gut the democratically elected government.
As Omar Barghouti has said in his article on June 20th, in the Electronic Intifada "...the bloody clash between the Islamist group, and it's secular counterpart, Fatah, and irrespective of motives, has descended into a feud between two slaves fighting over the crumbs thrown to them, whenever they behave, by their common colonial master." This will never lead to self- determination nor liberation. The only thing that will come from this is the destruction of any PA structure
(Gaza)
As Omar Barghouti has said in his article on June 20th, in the Electronic Intifada "...the bloody clash between the Islamist group, and it's secular counterpart, Fatah, and irrespective of motives, has descended into a feud between two slaves fighting over the crumbs thrown to them, whenever they behave, by their common colonial master." This will never lead to self- determination nor liberation. The only thing that will come from this is the destruction of any PA structure
(Gaza)
There is still an illegal wall surrounding all, and the Israelis have no intention but the complete destruction of the Palestinian people - either in the West Bank or Gaza. What is not needed is some perceived advantage or privilege to calcify so that the Palestinian people begin to abandon each other. They do not need to fall into the all to common trap which has been used for years by colonialists - indeed a division, but one thinking that it is better off than the other. YOU CANNOT ALLOW A SPLIT TO OCCUR BETWEEN THE PALESTINIANS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY, FROM THE REFUGEES, AND THE PALESTINIAN CITIZENS IN ISRAEL. THE ONLY PALESTINE THAT WILL FINALLY WIN IS A UNIFIED ONE, AND NO LEADER NOR CORNER OF ANY PORTION OF THE PA CAN AFFORD TO BE SET APART FROM ONE ANOTHER. IF YOU THINK ARE SPECIAL AND THAT YOU WILL BE SPARED, LET THESE WORDS RING IN YOUR EARS - "YOU WILL BE NEXT."
WHAT WE FACE
DON'T SELL OUT TO THE NIGHT
TEN THOUSAND FISTS
CITY
IT TAKES GREAT LOVE TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY
CALLING YOU
THE LONG LIE
THIS WILL NOT CONTINUE!
PEACE, PROPAGANDA, AND THE PROMISED LAND - PART 1
PEACE, PROPAGANDA, AND THE PROMISED LAND - PART 2
DON'T SELL OUT TO THE NIGHT
TEN THOUSAND FISTS
CITY
IT TAKES GREAT LOVE TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY
CALLING YOU
THE LONG LIE
THIS WILL NOT CONTINUE!
PEACE, PROPAGANDA, AND THE PROMISED LAND - PART 1
PEACE, PROPAGANDA, AND THE PROMISED LAND - PART 2
We must always keep in mind, that at points of crisis in the colonial cycle historically, that these have been the times of change for the best, as Antonius has said in his work "The Arab Awakening:"
"It often happens in the history of nations that a conflict
of oppossing forces which seems destined to end in
the triumph of the stronger party is given an unspecified
twist by the emergence of new forces which owe their
emergence to that very triumph."
of oppossing forces which seems destined to end in
the triumph of the stronger party is given an unspecified
twist by the emergence of new forces which owe their
emergence to that very triumph."
