The Second Nakba and the Coming Settlement

The celebration is over. The members of the entity's Knesset congratulated each other, and were elated by the majority vote for the two bills. A resounding success for them, and a profound pain, because the two laws, on the surface, remove UNRWA from the equation, but in reality, they are the kiss of death for the right of return of Palestinian refugees and a great practical and moral confirmation for them in establishing the concept that Jerusalem is one and united, and there is no place in it for a refugee camp, nor for UNRWA headquarters, nor for refugees registered with it in our capital.

"It is our capital, and we will not share it with anyone."

They have the right to celebrate! It is a great victory (!) and puts the train of settling Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria on its actual track towards the desired goal.

It is a bitter victory like wormwood in the course of the war of extermination on Gaza, as the policy of starvation, thirst, and open and systematic killing (and no randomness here) has come a long way (in one of its pivotal manifestations) in preventing UNRWA from working effectively in Gaza and establishing their control over what aid is brought in, when, where, and by whom, and ensuring that UNRWA, and the United Nations as a whole, will not have any real role in the stage of what is called the reconstruction (or more accurately, re-engineering) of Gaza. They have the right to celebrate and be elated.

Their celebration is over and they continue to translate such achievements and create facts on the ground. This is where their strength lies: action and creating facts on the ground at any cost.

A new party of slapping, wailing and lamenting sessions has begun, and a new stream of statements of condemnation and denunciation has begun, some of which are honest but have no effect, and many of which are hypocritical and lying statements, especially the American and British ones. Perhaps there is no need for a paragraph referring to the statements of the Arab League, the Islamic countries and the worn-out and lazy human rights associations.

We made a big fuss describing the repercussions of the vote by the members of the entity’s Knesset. We said that it was a fascist decision, a lifeline, a violation of the UN Charter, and the new record that entered our dictionary of descriptions is that the decision “contradicts the interim measures adopted by the International Court of Justice in the case of genocide” and other outdated linguistic descriptions. The Secretary-General surprised us with his tweet that the decision was “catastrophic,” since I thought that the decision was not catastrophic, so we must thank him for his important clarification! His official spokesman stuttered with a statement that exposes the impotence of the international organization, stating that the institution is evaluating its response to the two laws and that “our reactions will be negative!” Isn’t this statement painful in its paralysis?!

Yesterday, the entity's Knesset approved "the delayed start of implementing the provisions of the law," and gave the executive branch a period of 90 days to implement the provisions and clauses of the law in preventing UNRWA's activities and closing its headquarters (this will include its presence and services in all the occupied territories). 90 days to find alternatives to UNRWA in Gaza, roll back the fragmentation and dismantling of the agency in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and find alternatives for it of local, regional and international origin. And then the actual start of the process of settling Palestinian refugees outside the homeland. And this is what will happen!

We do not have any effective, practical, effective movement at the Palestinian, Arab, Islamic, regional, or international levels to confront the entity’s decision and its successive translation on the ground.

Perhaps the demand to adopt the equation of expulsion for expulsion (expulsion of the entity from the United Nations in exchange for its expulsion of UNRWA) will remain within the framework of wishes.

So, the series is over, and there is no second part. They have celebrations and achievements on the ground, and we have hung a "Do Not Disturb" sign on our bedroom and sleeping area.

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90 days to implement the decision to expel UNRWA from Jerusalem and prevent its activities in the occupied territories. What are we going to do? They have celebrations and achievements on the ground, while we have hung a "Do Not Disturb" sign on our bedroom and sleeping area.