OPINIONS
Sat 31 Aug 2024 9:40 am - Jerusalem Time
Factors of Palestinian victory and failure
The Palestinians do not have the capabilities and potential to defeat the Israeli colony project with a knockout blow, which would force the occupiers of their country to leave, but the factors available to the Palestinian people have gradually begun to expand in favor of their future:
The first is the human demographic factor, as the number of steadfast residents on the entire map of Palestine, whether in the first occupation areas in 1948 or the second occupation areas in 1967, exceeded seven million Palestinian Arabs, who constitute a people, and are not a small community, or a weak minority, limited in number, but rather a people with a complete presence and survival, clinging to their land, homeland, identity and nationality. They are the “original owners of the land,” as the communist MP Ofer Cassif said in his speech before the Knesset, and they are no less in number than the number of Israelis from foreign Jews coming from Europe and other countries of the world. The Palestinian human demographic factor is the most important factor in the conflict, as this, with its existence and continuity, constituted a strategic defeat for the entire Israeli expansionist colonial project, which sought to expel, displace and remove the Palestinians from their homeland in the years of the Nakba of 1948 and the Naksa of 1967, but it failed to expel and displace all the Palestinians.
The second important factor that the Palestinian people possess is their involvement, organization, and affiliation with the resistance factions and parties: Fatah, Hamas, the Popular Front, the Democratic Front, the Jihad, the People’s Party, Fida, the National Struggle Front, the Arab Front, the Palestinian Front, and the Initiative, in addition to the parties of the 1948 areas, from the Communists, the Islamists, the National Democratic Rally, the Arab Party for Change, and other parties and organizations, which constitute national factors of resistance in confronting the policies and programs of the colony, confronting them, and thwarting their plans.
The third factor is the resolutions of the United Nations and relevant international institutions that have come to recognize the rights of the Palestinian people and the legitimacy of their national aspirations for freedom, independence, statehood, and return, starting with Resolution 181 and Resolution 194, to the recent resolutions issued by the Security Council, the General Assembly, and the International Court of Justice, all of which constitute the declared political weapon for the clear and limited rights of the Palestinians.
In contrast, the Palestinians lack three important strategic factors, which have hindered their struggle, reduced the time required to achieve their rights, and their victory over their enemy. These factors are:
1- The absence of national coalition unity among all factions and parties, whether in the 1967 or 1948 areas.
2- The absence of serious levers supporting the Palestinian struggle and covering their real, tangible needs, neither Arab, Islamic, nor international.
3- The failure of the Palestinian political movement to penetrate Israeli society and gain support from among its ranks for the justice of Palestinian demands, the legitimacy of its struggle, and standing by its side as partners in the two-state solution, or the one-state solution based on partnership, bi-national, multi-religious, and governed by the results of the ballot boxes.
The factors available to the Palestinian people are like weapons and levers through which they will be able to seize victory. As for the factors they lack, they are an obstacle to their struggle and delay the achievement of their aspirations for victory and the restoration of their full and undiminished rights over their entire national land: Palestine.
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Factors of Palestinian victory and failure