The dilemma and the way out... Arafat then Abbas (1)

If Arafat had objected to the summary of what was agreed upon in Oslo, it would not have been published for an hour.
If he had not spread his revolutionary keffiyeh at the negotiating table with Israel, the table would not have existed in the first place.
In doing so, he received half of the Nobel Peace Prize, excluding the architect of Oslo, while the other half went to Rabin and Peres.
At the beginning of the process of transferring agreements and understandings from paper to reality, Arafat was receiving in Gaza world leaders who came to him in a demonstration of support and adoption of the “historic project.” During that period, Arafat often described Rabin as “my friend,” and when he was killed, Arafat continued to keep the word “my friend.” , adding “the deceased.”

The assassination of Rabin required the assassination of Arafat, but before that could be done, a massive propaganda operation took place, the central idea of which was that Arafat was the only obstructionist to the peace process, which necessitated getting rid of him.

The power in Israel had fallen to the fiercest politician who rejected the principle of peace with the Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu, and with him the fiercest military man, Ariel Sharon, whose name was associated with the Sabra and Shatila massacres, after leading the invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

Finally, Arafat was eliminated, and the presidency was given to his colleague in the historical leadership of Fatah and his twin in the risk of peace, Mahmoud Abbas.

Mahmoud Abbas has been called the architect of Oslo... He was the one who managed the secret negotiations on a daily basis, but he would not send a single line to the negotiators and their leader, Ahmed Qurei, until it had been approved within the limited leadership framework that was established to direct the negotiations, meaning that the man was not working on his own whims. 

During the life of Arafat the world proposed Abbas as prime minister, a position that Arafat held in addition to his many positions at the top. Arafat reluctantly accepted the idea of heading a government separate from his presidency, and only four months had passed since its formation until Abbas found himself unable to perform its duties. He discovered that the world that introduced this formula seemed unable to meet what it fundamentally needed in terms of convincing progress in the political process with Israel.

According to the family hierarchy in Fatah, the organization, and history, Abbas occupied Arafat's position, and indeed all of his positions after his death.

His welcome stemmed from a belief that the architect of Oslo would succeed in achieving what Arafat could not achieve, which is ending the occupation, as promised by the “historical reconciliation” literature, and moving from self-rule to an independent state that would address the refugee issue in a state-with-state reality. Unfortunately for him, his occupation of the position of the first man from the beginning until now has been associated with a series of failures and collapses of the peace process, with the occurrence of the second catastrophe, which is the division between West Bank and Gaza, and the defeat of “Fatah” in the general elections against the competitor “Hamas,” which plunged the country and the issue into a dark tunnel from which it seemed as if there was no way out.

Things continued to go down this slope, until we reached where we are now, that is, the war in Gaza, and what is more dangerous than it in the West Bank.

Before this war, during Abbas’s presidency, the Authority was subjected to humiliation and insults, with the aim of diminishing its prestige among its people and transforming it from a promising project for the state into a mere security arm for an occupation that has not stopped settling and abusing the lives of the Palestinians, especially in Area A, which the Authority is supposed to have sovereignty, without Abbas being spared incitement against him, the idea on which the Israeli narrative is based is that the man is unable to do what is required of him in the field of Israel’s security, so his authority is unnecessary.

However, the Americans have another say about him and his authority. There is no mention of an assassination or overthrow, but rather a change they are undertaking to determine his position in it - with an honorary presidency -.

The methods were different, but the goal was the same.
People have changed and the desired result is the same, and the American Godfather of the process is still looking for one or several people who will adhere to the text and not deviate from it. As for the real interests of the Palestinian people, which center on freedom and independence, this is the last thing the Godfather is thinking about.