OPINIONS

Thu 16 Nov 2023 10:10 am - Jerusalem Time

The solution on the Israeli way

First and foremost, we affirm that the solutions proposed by Israel to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are not due to its extraordinary intelligence or superior experience in negotiation, as is rumored, and are not because the Palestinian negotiator is absent, astonished, or unprofessional. All of these reasons may be present in one form or another. 

But the real reason, in our opinion, is that Israel is strong enough to manipulate, reject, or circumvent every solution or proposal, emptying it of its content, or developing alternatives or priorities that make it an unimplementable solution.
Israel would not have rejected any solution, disrupted it, or emptied it of its content had it not been for its shameless power and its entire Atlantic source. We state this fact so that none of us fall under the illusion that the Israeli negotiator is a genius and that he possesses expertise that no one possesses. Quite the opposite, as Israel reveals a ridiculous naivety in its fabrication, disagreement, and circumvention. Since 1967, Israel has been able to invalidate all international resolutions, initiatives, settlements, ideas, proposals, and plans proposed by all relevant regional and international parties through the following: Absolute rejection, setting conditions, proposing new ideas in return, blowing up the situation, this is on the one hand, but from the Israeli side, the solutions proposed by Israel itself, since 1967 until this day, have been characterized by the following:
First: The absolute denial of Palestinian rights and denial of all Israeli proposals for a solution. There is nothing to confirm that these proposals are based on the principle that the Palestinian people have the right to property, sovereignty or security. The Israeli solution usually reduces the Palestinian’s connection to his land and heritage.
Second: Substituting priorities, as Israel usually puts what it calls improving living conditions, or according to the Israeli expression (facilitations) and (increasing the number of permits), instead of a political settlement. Israel usually puts the loaf of bread before independence, and for this reason it uses this method to obtain trade-off between loaf and calm. There are more loaves of bread the more calm there is, and not all the geniuses in the world can define the security or calm that Israel demands.
Third: Normalization or gradual implementation. There is no Israeli solution offered all at once or that is not linked or conditional on other circumstances and multiple demands. The Israeli solution is usually gradual, conditional, ambiguous, and based on intentions and subjective interpretations.
The Israeli solution seems like a puzzle that is impossible to solve on the ground. Its translation, interpretation, and application are related to Israeli satisfaction, which is a satisfaction that no one can obtain or possess.
Fourth: Subsequent to what was previously mentioned, the Israeli solution is not related to the gradation of time, but it is also related to the gradation of meanings. The Israeli solution does not include all places in one solution, but rather it is applied in a specific place, and if it succeeds, it is applied in other places, and it usually fails. Israel backs down from its solutions. This explains why Israel does not keep or maintain its agreements.
Fifth: The Israeli solution is linked to the people and not to the strategy. This means that every solution proposed by an Israeli government does not bind the next government, unless that solution serves the new government. Therefore, all the solutions proposed by the Israeli governments were not respected or preserved. This is because solutions change with the change of governments or their leaders, and there are many examples that I leave for the reader to fill in the blanks.
Sixth: The Israeli solution usually aims to spread division among members of one people, as the proposed solution is formulated in a way that puts the ball in the people’s court such that it is a cause for controversy and provokes political, cultural and intellectual disagreement. Accordingly, Israel usually tends to Developing multiple solutions with different parties from the same people. This is to create new responses to different challenges, which is one of the goals of the Israeli solutions, which takes us to the next point.
Seventh: The Israeli solution usually aims to disintegrate a single people by granting multiple parties within it a different legal status through distinct personal cards and through advantages due to geography or other matters.
The Israeli solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict does not deal with the Palestinian people as a single unit at all. It divides the solution (within parties), and within persons. There is no Israeli solution that does not aim at dismantling.
Eighth: The Israeli solution usually does not include seeking or referring to any international or Arab role.
The Israeli solution usually depicts the conflict as a local or internal conflict, and its solution can be reached through local measures, as if the Palestinian people were merely a community, sect, or racial or ethnic minority that Israel could bypass or overcome.
Ninth: The Israeli solution usually involves many procedures, instructions and conditions and does not guarantee the establishment of contexts, entities and legal persons. The Israeli solution usually links everything to its will, not security control, but control of public space.
So what does Israel want behind all these methods?! In short, Israel wants to achieve questionable calm. It wants to pass the occupation project with the least possible losses and criticism. It wants to buy time to exhaust its enemies and disintegrate them. It wants to protect its interests. It wants to appear as if it is a state that does not refuse Peace.

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