Towards a meeting of the Palestinian Central Council

The Palestinian people stand vigilantly, along with their institutions, those who monitor them, and those who follow their actions and decisions, in preparation for the convening of the Palestinian Central Council on April 23 and 24, 2025. This is the most prominent institution mediating between the Palestinian National Council, which brings together the representatives of the components of Palestinian Arab society, from within the homeland and abroad, and includes all the active political, trade union, economic and social forces - or so it is assumed - and the daily leadership, the Executive Committee, which leads the Palestinian struggle and action on the basis of the program formulated and prepared by the National Council. This Committee includes the main factions and active independent national figures.

The Council meets at this critical time, as the Palestinian people face the most difficult period of conflict, the greatest tragedy, and the most devastating loss, as defined by the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court: "ethnic cleansing and genocide," and attempts to force the displacement, expulsion, and expulsion of the people of the Gaza Strip to Sinai, and the people of Jerusalem and the West Bank to Jordan or to a third country outside our Arab region.

The Palestinian people face three challenges, each one worse, harsher, and more effective than the other:

The first is the ruling group in the colony, made up of extreme right-wing political parties, allied with extremist Jewish religious parties. It seeks to complete its control, occupation, settlement, and expansion across the entire map of Palestine, and its priority is:

1- That united Jerusalem is the capital of the Israeli colony, and it is working to Israelize, Judaize, Hebraize and Zionize it.

2- The West Bank is not Palestinian, it is not Arab, it is not occupied, but rather it is Judea and Samaria, i.e. part of the map of the Israeli colony.

3 - Erasing the three terms: refugee, camp, and UNRWA from the common lexicon and the political scene, with the aim of erasing half of the Palestinian people, their cause, and their right to return in accordance with Resolution 194, after they were expelled and displaced from their homeland in 1948, which constitutes a contradiction to the colonial occupation narrative upon which the Israeli expansionist colonial project in 1948 in Palestine was based.

The second is the Palestinian division in the 1948 and 1967 territories, between the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality and the Islamic Movement faction. This division led to the success of the extreme right-wing alliance that leads the colony. Had the alliance remained in place between the political components of the Palestinian Arab community in the 1948 territories, particularly between the Democratic Front and the Islamic Movement, under the banner of the United Arab List, it would have won 15 seats due to the alliance, cohesion and unity, with the participation of only 64% of the Palestinian Arab voters who went to the ballot boxes. Had this alliance remained, it would not have led to the decline of Palestinian Arab representation to 10 seats in the Knesset, as a result of the dissolution of the alliance between the Palestinian Arab parties. Thus, it was clearly evident that the division and disagreement overthrew the closest realistic representation of the Palestinian Arab community in the Israeli Knesset, and deprived it of any influence or power on the Israeli political scene.

The Palestinian division between Fatah and Hamas, between the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as a result of the "decisive military coup" carried out and resorted to by Hamas in June 2007, and its monopoly on governing the Gaza Strip to this day, has led to the difficult conditions facing the Palestinian people.

The third aspect of the state of fragmentation, division and decline is represented by the changes that occurred in the regional situation as a result of the October 7 operation and its repercussions:

1- The destruction of the Gaza Strip and the martyrdom of more than fifty thousand Palestinians, and the wounding, injury and disability of twice as many, meaning more than one hundred thousand Palestinian civilians were injured.

2- Assassinating the military and political leaders of the Lebanese Hezbollah, destroying its combat capabilities, and causing it to lose its political role in support of Palestine.

3- The destruction of the capabilities, weapons, assets, stations and airports of the Syrian Arab Army by the colony’s army, after the coup and change that occurred in the Syrian political scene and the defeat of the former Baath Party regime on 12-8-2024.

The Chairman of the Palestinian Central Council and the Chairman of the Palestinian National Council are requested to pay attention to inviting the leaders of the Palestinian Arab community from the territories within the 1948 territories:

1- Palestinian leader Muhammad Baraka, elected president of the Higher Follow-up Committee for the Palestinian Arab Community in the 1948 Territories.

2 - Mazen Ghanayem, Mayor of Sakhnin, elected chairman of the Arab Local Authorities Committee.

3- Head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality list in the Knesset, MP Ayman Odeh.

4- Head of the Joint Arab List bloc in the Knesset, MP Mansour Abbas.

5- Ahmed Tibi, head of the Arab Movement for Change.

6- The manufacturer's request was made by the head of the Arab Democratic Party.

7- Essam Makhoul, head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality.

Inviting the leaders of the Palestinian Arab community in the 1948 territories to attend and participate in the Palestinian Central Council meeting is a political message affirming the unity of will, means, and aspirations for the future, and the restoration of the Palestinian people's rights: 1- Equality in the 1948 territories. 2- Independence for the 1967 territories. 3- Return for refugees.

Will Rohi grasp the message’s significance and respond to it, and work to achieve it?