The voice of the rational Palestinian struggle

The unfortunate events that swept the city of Jenin and its camp are not a struggle between right and wrong, between the patriot and the unpatriotic, between the resister and the one who rejects resistance, between those who claim loyalty, patriotism and insistence on resistance, and those who stand against loyalty and with the occupation against resistance.

Whoever says this is truly standing with the occupation, to consolidate the division between the sons of one people, between the factions, organizations and parties. He is consecrating the national discord under misleading and lying banners and terms in claiming to be more patriotic than the other, claiming to be biased towards the resistance, against the Palestinian National Authority, which is falsely and unjustly accused of standing against the resistance.

Political forces, unions, civil society institutions, and independent figures called for, met, and launched their community initiative under the term: “Accord,” based on national and moral duty, with the aim of urgent action to put an end to this recklessness and nonsense that only serves their enemy, who follows what is happening with complete satisfaction, and works to feed it without hesitation.

The Palestinian Wafaq Initiative did not limit its efforts to containing the current crisis and impasse, but rather sought to establish a basis and foundations for sustainable national relations based on:

First, stopping all forms of clashes, with a ban on attacks on public and private property, headquarters, vehicles, security personnel, and official institutions. At the same time, the security services must commit to implementing the law in accordance with the rules of arrest and detention, respecting the dignity of the citizen, and strictly adhering to the controls on the use of firearms.

Secondly, holding legally responsible anyone who committed crimes against persons or property and bringing them to trial in accordance with the provisions of the law, with the security services committed to publishing the results of the investigation into cases of shooting that led to the killing of citizens and bringing the offenders to trial, and compensating the affected families.

On the basis of the reconciliation initiative, the “National Authority for Palestinian Civil Peace” was formed from national figures, religious men, civil society institutions, unionists, and human rights activists, and they announced that they “will not allow differences over any issue to turn into clashes between the sons of one people.”

She stressed the need to reach a solution to “the responsibility of balancing the right to resistance according to international conventions and the rule of law in Palestine,” and thus lifted the national political cover from the claim of resistance, and that: “the forms of struggle and methods of resistance are linked to every stage of the struggle, and it is a matter left to the dialogue table between the Palestinian political forces,” not to be hostage to the positions of a class, group or party, without the others from the political forces, and thus the outcome of the dialogue required between the various parties, to reach a state of national consensus.

The Gaza experience, its bitterness and its destructive results, as Walid Al-Awad, a member of the political bureau of the Palestinian People's Party from Gaza, says: "It must not be transferred to the West Bank. The ruling party in the colony, which is made up of extreme right-wing political parties and extremist Jewish religious parties, is looking for excuses to practice their criminal acts in the West Bank, as they did in our Gaza Strip. Therefore, the national struggle must not be captive to limited groups that, by possessing weapons, imagine that they are capable of liberating the homeland. Rather, this requires the broadest popular resistance front from all forces and factions, with our entire people as its incubator, as happened in the first intifada in 1987. We must not mortgage the future of our people to these groups, despite their bravery and readiness."