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Wed 15 Mar 2023 7:56 pm - Jerusalem Time

Attacking President Abbas... an opportunity to deviate from Oslo and all its commitments

Written by: Rasem Obeidat
What happened in the press conference that President Abbas held with German Chancellor Schultz on 8/16/2022, in which he answered a question from a journalist about the Munich operation carried out by the Palestinian group “Black September” in the summer of 1972, in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed. The government of Germany and the state of the entity are responsible for it. Will the Palestinian Authority apologize for that operation? The response came from President Abbas, that there are 50 collective crimes committed against our Palestinian people, in addition to the individual crimes that continue and do not stop. From scratch and inside his home.... President Abbas did not finish his press conference, until the leaders of the entity state, in addition to the Western colonial countries, attacked him, including the German Chancellor himself Schultz, who refused to classify the entity state, which is now suffocating with its racism, as an "apartheid" state "Apartheid ... in addition to the United States of America."

A fierce campaign was launched against President Abbas, including incitement, censure, defamation, cursing, and contempt, by saying that what he said was a lie, disgusting talk, and an immoral act that history will not forgive him. At the hands of the Palestinian organizations, while Gantz, the Minister of the Occupation Army, who was defending his meetings with President Abbas, who was subjected to a campaign of harsh criticism from many members of the entity’s government, said that the security coordination succeeded in saving the lives of many soldiers and settlers of the entity’s state.

President Abbas, who issued a statement clarifying his position on the issue of the Holocaust, that he and our people do not deny the Holocaust against the Jews and consider it a heinous crime in modern history, but on the other hand there are crimes that the Zionist occupation carried out and is still carrying out against our people. Perhaps the Goldstone report after the aggressive war launched on the Gaza Strip in In 2008-2009, he clearly indicated that the occupation army committed war crimes in its aggression against the Gaza Strip, as well as in the battle of "Saif al-Quds" in May / 2021, the entity state killed 69 Palestinian children, whose pictures were published in major international newspapers, even in the newspaper "Haaretz". Likewise, in the last aggressive war on the Gaza Strip in August 2022, Israel killed 16 Palestinian children, and then continued its crimes against our Palestinian people, by killing three Palestinian resistance fighters in the old town of Nablus and a fourth boy in Hebron, and matters reached their climax after the operation The Mughrabi Gate, by executing the young man, Muhammad Shahham, inside his home from scratch... And last Thursday, 8/18/2022, an Israeli force killed the young Wassim Khalifa from Nablus, not to mention dozens of individual and collective crimes, from Deir Yassin, Kafr Qassem, Al-Tantura, Al-Samou’, and Al-Dawayima to crimes The execution of the two journalists, Sherine Abu Aqleh, Ghfran and Rasneh, the young Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, and the boy with special needs Iyad al-Hallaq..etc.

President Abbas has been insulted by the "sacred cow" that should not be attacked, either by deed, or by word, or by condemnation or denunciation, in connection with the crimes it commits against our Palestinian people and the state terrorism it practices. Didn’t the former extremist American representative, Nick Haley, say that the era of reprimanding and condemning the entity’s state in the United Nations is over forever? Didn’t the former chief of staff of the entity’s army, Rafael Eitan, describe our Palestinian people as “narcotic cockroaches in a bottle?” Didn’t Begin say, the former prime minister of the entity, that Our Palestinian people are human animals, walking on four legs.

Are these statements not the height of racism and extremism? We realize that the values of humanity, the principles of justice and democracy, the right of peoples to self-determination, respect for the resolutions of international legitimacy, its laws, agreements and decisions, have fallen from the gate of Ukraine. Seven days after the forced Russian military operation in Ukraine, America, along with the colonial West countries, rose to say that what Russia is doing is a violation. Ukraine's sovereignty, transgressing human rights and democracy, committing war crimes, and violating international legitimacy... while seventy-four years of occupation of the land of the Palestinian people, the expulsion and displacement of more than half of them, and the practice of all forms of ethnic cleansing and apartheid against them, are not war crimes, a violation, an infringement, and a breach of international legitimacy And her decisions..?? It is selectivity and abhorrent duplication in applying the laws and decisions of international legitimacy, in a manner that serves the interests and objectives of the colonial powers.

The statements made by President Abbas are an expression of the position of all Palestinians, which must be adopted and supported by all the Palestinian political, institutional and popular components and components. Abbas, and indicating that the leaders of the entity state, what they want, is only to continue managing the conflict, and improving the conditions for their occupation of our people, “economy in exchange for security” and what is known as “reducing the conflict” without granting it any national and political rights, ending the occupation, and enabling it to establish A Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967 with Jerusalem as its capital, with a guarantee of the right of return for Palestinian refugees in accordance with international legitimacy, and agrees with the leaders of the entity state America and the colonial West countries, especially Britain, France and Germany in this vision and those positions, despite the hollow and worn-out statements about what is known as the two-state solution , which did not leave it the continuous and increasing settlement any chance of implementation on the ground.

Hence, what happened in Berlin and the fierce incitement attack against President Abu Mazen against the background of his failure to apologize for the Munich process, and the talk about the crimes of the entity state against our people, must be a turning point towards transferring the decisions of the Central Council and the previous decisions of the National Council and the Executive Committee from above. The table turned to the practical application of it, by announcing the exit from the Oslo process and the dissolution of all its security, political and economic obligations (stopping security coordination, withdrawing mutual recognition, and stopping work with the Paris Economic Agreement), and initiating comprehensive legislative and presidential elections and for the National Council, in a way that unites the struggle tool and the true partnership In leadership and decision-making and through a unified strategy and vision based on an agreed-upon political program and a national project whose features and addresses are defined clearly and accurately based on steadfastness and resistance.

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