A fig leaf remained between the PA and Israel

Written by: Nabil Amr

Whoever follows what the Israeli leaders say about the Authority and what they demand from it, and what they incite others against, comes out with one conclusion, which is that Israel wants the Authority to be just a security agent, in exchange for a monthly salary that increases and decreases according to what Israel decides. performance quality.
The meaning of the proxy is for it to be an active and effective force in the Israeli security system, especially in the dangerous areas, the most famous of which is now the northern front, Nablus and Jenin.
The monthly salary is to give her the money she is owed, with varying deductions, which always amount to a percentage of the authority’s income, and the center of it is “clearance.”

The security relations, which were termed coordination, were in the past, i.e. the time of the negotiating political horizon, one of the main pillars in the system of Palestinian-Israeli relations, whose foundations were laid and their paths defined by the Oslo agreements and understandings. Although these relations were not acceptable to a wide segment of the Palestinian people, they were understood and even justified, and it was possible to defend them with one sentence, "They are necessary as long as they are part of mutual arrangements that will lead to a Palestinian state."
Many years have passed since Oslo, and in our days there is nothing left of it except the security relationship that is called coordination, which, if it was not as effective as it was at the time of the political horizon and negotiations, is still, albeit as a term, a fig leaf. Which covers the nakedness of the supposedly political relationship between the PA and Israel
The Israeli government, through its words and actions, wants to rip this fig leaf to show power to its people and to the world that it has no chance of life or continuing in its minimum limits unless Israel grants it a certificate of security competence, i.e. that it is able to An absolute calm was imposed on the entire West Bank, in order for the saying that was popular at the beginning of the Oslo Accords to be realized, “Security means that if a needle falls in Ramallah, its ringing will be heard in Tel Aviv.”
The Israeli government practices a contradictory duality in this direction, as it wants the authority to be strong in the field of imposing calm and security, and it wants and even works to be weak in other areas, i. On the political level, the Israeli government is not satisfied with that, but rather works to mobilize the world to support it in this dual policy and to introduce Arab and non-Arab mediators to tame the authority and make it an effective security agent even without the fig leaf.
The PA, in its current reality, is pressed between the two sides of a very heavy and cruel world, the part of its financial needs that the Israelis control the main part of, and the other part is the absence of the political dimension in its relations with Israel, which it wants as a springboard, not a land that is cut off, nor a left back.
Israel realizes more than others that the PA cannot perform what it wants from it for two reasons. The first is its weakness in the field of control, and this is what Israel talks about a lot.
= And secondly, the loss of justification and purpose, for all that is required of it now is to work in exchange for mere survival, as there is no state on the horizon, not even a fig leaf, covering the nakedness of the fading political relationship.
Israel is either not paying attention to the counterproductive results that its dual and contradictory policies lead to, or it knows what it is doing and knows the goal it is seeking, and this should not be ruled out. It does not want to see a serious Palestinian Authority that leads to solid stability until Within the limits of the agreed autonomy, what you do will only achieve one thing: that the Palestinians remain in a state of permanent turmoil, constant need, and a permanent distance from the dream of national independence.
However, what Israel knows and ignores is that such a situation, and to the extent that it tires the Palestinians, it also tires them, by virtue of a principle that has guided all mankind throughout all ages, according to which the occupation is like a double-edged knife, one on the neck of the victim and the other on the neck The executioner, and this is not purely Palestinian talk, but it is the words and certainty of people of reason and some wisdom in Israel.