No to a renewed authority in the Israeli-American sense...and for the Palestinian people it means an independent state.

Reform, which signifies progress and development that achieves strength, power, prosperity, well-being, and a free and dignified life, is a demand and a historical tradition for individuals, nations, and peoples. Whoever lags behind in the path of reform condemns himself, his society, and his country to backwardness and weakness. Therefore, reform, in our understanding, is part of human nature, and therefore requires confronting the challenges that stand, or may stand, as an obstacle to achieving our goals as peoples and governments.

In the previous article, I spoke about the lack of concern for the goals and meanings of the reform required from the Palestinian leadership and about the concept of renewed authority by the United States of America, its tool, the Israeli colonial entity, and their axis.

Despite the above, and by nature, this does not mean in any way hesitation, slowness, indolence, fighting corruption if it exists, or betting on others in addressing the challenges and obstacles that hinder the progress of the reform process that leads to achieving the goals of the Palestinian people’s struggle, the vanguard of the Arab people, at the forefront of which are freedom, independence, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and enabling the Palestinian refugees to return to their cities and villages from which they were forcibly expelled in 1948, after a series of brutal, bloody massacres and the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns committed by Zionist Jewish gangs with the support, empowerment, and participation of the British colonial forces.

In the Palestinian case, the desired and self-required reforms differ from the challenges facing any country’s reform process. Among the challenges are:

First: The Palestinian people are threatened by their very existence on their homeland. The Israeli-American goal, the title of the colonial powers, is to uproot the Palestinian people from their historical homeland. The continuation of the Israeli colonial occupation authorities and their refusal to end their occupation of the occupied territories of the State of Palestine, which is internationally recognized by virtue of UN General Assembly Resolutions 181 and 19/67/2012, in implementation of dozens of resolutions issued by the Security Council, the General Assembly, and the International Court of Justice, is nothing but the most important title.

Second: Israeli control over the joints of Palestinian sovereign decisions (elections, air, land, and sea crossings, natural and non-natural resources, water, movement, security, the economy, and others).

Third: The interventions of Arab and regional regimes in the Palestinian issue, directly or through proxies, either to exploit the Palestinian issue as a card that serves their regime and justifies their oppression of their people, or to serve the Israeli-American project that aims to liquidate the Palestinian issue by undermining the Palestinian people’s right to freedom, independence, self-determination and the establishment of their independent state, and by abolishing the right of return for Palestinian refugees, as it represents a fundamental pillar in the conflict with the global Zionist movement.

Fourth: Transforming the Palestinian issue from the issue of a people struggling for freedom, independence and the establishment of their independent state by all internationally guaranteed means into a humanitarian and livelihood issue. The collusion, under various pretexts that lack logic, in an attempt to undermine the Palestinian legitimacy that holds onto the Palestinian constants represented by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, which it has seized at all regional and international levels with the support and rallying of the Palestinian people inside and outside the occupied territories around its national struggle strategy, which was and still is a major obstacle to moving to the next aggressive expansionist phase of the Israeli-American project to subject the Arab region to its hegemony for decades to come, starting with Palestine and by exerting pressure on Arab countries to push them to practically abandon their support for the struggle and steadfastness of the Palestinian people in their homeland. The drying up of the financial capabilities of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, the civil executive body concerned with managing the civil affairs of the Palestinian people inside the occupied territories, and participating with good or bad intentions, is nothing but an example of targeting and pressure to subjugate the Palestinian national will to steadfastness and push them to leave their homeland in the context of the ethnic cleansing war that we are currently witnessing in the Gaza Strip.

In light of the Palestinian strategy approved by the Palestinian National Council with the participation of all Palestinian forces within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization and approved implicitly and practically by forces outside the framework of the Organization and the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization to establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital on the borders of June 4, 1967, Palestinian reform, that is, taking all measures and procedures to put the Palestinian house in order in a way that strengthens the unity and struggle of the Palestinian people, “taking into account the large gaps in the balance of power with the Israeli enemy,” by all available legal, popular and political means, with Arab, Islamic and African support, and from the Non-Aligned Movement and all friendly countries of the world that believe in the values of justice, freedom and equality and in the right of all peoples of the world to self-determination and decolonization, has become urgent in confronting and confronting the Israeli-American conspiracy that targets all Palestinians as a prelude to targeting Arab and Islamic national security in its comprehensive concept:

▪︎ Strengthening the independent Palestinian decision, and what this requires in terms of rejecting all forms of political, financial and economic pressures, regardless of their source or objectives, that undermine the rights of the Palestinian people, their struggle, their determination and their will to pursue their national project towards freedom, independence and the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

▪︎ Strengthening Palestinian legitimacy represented by the Palestine Liberation Organization to remove the pretexts of the artificial Israeli entity and those who support it for not ending its occupation of the Palestinian territories in implementation of international resolutions related to the Palestinian issue. The political and geographical division that followed the military decision carried out by Hamas in the Gaza Strip has become an urgent national demand to end the political and geographical divisions, freeze all forms of internal disputes, and unite around the interim goal approved by the Palestinian National Council in 1974, and confirmed by the rest of the sessions to establish the Palestinian state in accordance with international resolutions.

▪︎ Developing an action strategy that can be implemented immediately. This requires all factions and forces to assume their executive responsibilities in accordance with the comprehensive strategic vision by mobilizing all forms of political and economic capabilities to confront the forced displacement conspiracy and confront the crimes of settlers by forming popular committees throughout cities, villages, and neighborhoods to protect civilians and their property, strengthening their steadfastness.

▪︎ Forming a working group to communicate with global and regional powers and blocs to exert all forms of pressure on the Security Council to carry out its duties and compel the Israeli colonial occupation authorities to implement the resolutions issued by the General Assembly, noting that the General Assembly’s resolutions are binding and not merely decorative, and in accordance with the United Nations Charter, which stipulates that the Security Council acts as an agent for the General Assembly in implementing its resolutions and recommendations without duplication or selectivity.

The reform we seek is one based on strengthening the steadfastness and struggle of the Palestinian people and the free choice of their leaders in accordance with the Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization until the end of the Israeli colonial occupation of the territories of the occupied and internationally recognized Palestinian state. Then, free democratic elections will be held in an independent state that will produce, by popular will, the leadership of the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

As for the renewed authority, it does not mean anything to the Palestinian people inside and outside the occupied territories except an independent state, and it is not the renewed authority that means to the Americans and Israelis acceptance of the Israeli-American plan to deprive the Palestinian people of establishing their independent state and liquidate the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their cities and villages from which they were forcibly expelled in 1948.

As for good governance, its first components are freedom, independence, and liberation from the yoke of the racist, terrorist Israeli colonizer.

The first thing America should do, from its position as a world leader and a country that claims to be committed to consolidating international peace and security and upholding the values of democracy and human rights, is to compel Israel to end its occupation of the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories and to take punitive measures against the leaders of the artificial Israeli entity for threatening international peace and security. It should also end relations with a government some of whose ministers call for bombing the Palestinian people with nuclear weapons and support a government headed by a person who is being tried on charges of corruption, war crimes and genocide before the International Criminal Court. This is because of the repercussions this has on America’s standing on the international stage, leading to the international isolation of its policy.

The Palestine Liberation Organization will remain the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, who refuse to have their will confiscated or placed under tutelage, regardless of the names and titles they bear.