We pay attention, we wake up, we learn

Written by: Hamada Pharaoh
In his important article, Manny Mautner, published in Haaretz, under the title: “Does Israel really want peace?” :

“The Israeli right has been living for decades within the framework of a historic decision, which is based on continuing to retain the “Judea and Samaria” areas, which is a better option for them than reaching a peace that requires the evacuation of all territories (in the Palestinian West Bank) and the division of Jerusalem.

So let's define first what are the titles that the right and the extreme Israeli right refuse to concede, and insist on sticking to them?? It is: 1- Jerusalem as the unified capital of the Israeli colony, 2- The Palestinian West Bank, which is not Palestinian, not Jordanian, not Arab, not occupied, but rather "Judea and Samaria", which was liberated in 1967, as part of the map of the Israeli colony.

Secondly, what is the size of the right and the Israeli extreme right?? Let's check the parties and blocs of the current Israeli parliament as a result of the 24th Knesset elections that took place on March 23, 2021. Today, nine out of 13 parties are members of the current parliament: two of them are Arab-Palestinian parties and blocs: 1- The Joint List and it has six seats, 2- The Consolidated List and it has Four seats, and two of the centrist-left parties are: 1- The Labor Party, headed by Merav Michaeli, with 7 seats, 2- The Meretz movement, headed by Nitzan Hurvitz, with six seats. The nine right-wing and extreme right-wing parties are: Five of them are partners in the government coalition, and they are: Yesh Atid, there is a future headed by Yair Lapid with 17 seats, 2- Kahol Lavan and Blue and White headed by Benny Gantz with 8 seats, 3- Yamina headed by Naftali Bennett, before his resignation, with 7 seats, 4- Yisrael Beiteinu headed by Avigdor Lieberman with 7 seats, 5- Tikva Hadashah New Hope headed by Gideon Sa’ar with 6 seats, and the four opposition parties are: 1- Likud headed by Netanyahu with 30 seats, 2- Shas headed by Aryeh Deri with 9 seats, 3- United Torah Judaism headed by Moshe Gafni with 7 seats, 4 Religious Zionism is headed by Bezalel Smotrich and has 6 seats, which means The Israeli right and extreme right are the parliamentary majority as a result of the ballot boxes, which confirms that they are the decision makers in directing the policy of the colony and its administration towards settlement, towards a solution, or towards dealing with the Palestinian people, and their positions are dominant and their conviction is dominant.

Against the background of this knowledge and information, Palestinian, Arab, Islamic, and Christian positions, policies, and programs should be developed regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, without illusions based on desires that are not backed by facts, and on self-misleading factors.

In his article, Manny Mautner concludes, "It is time to acknowledge the fact that Israel (the colony), uses the rhetoric of peace, but in practice contributes very little towards its realization."*

The colony carries out all the actual practical procedural steps on the ground, including: 1- Israelization, Judaization, Zionization, and Arabization of the city of Jerusalem, 2- Establishing and expanding settlement settlements on the land of the Palestinian West Bank, and increasing their effectiveness and the number of their settlers, 3- Disrupting the Palestinian land, preventing its development in the rural areas, and mobilizing the Palestinians in cities and isolating them from each other, benefiting from:

1- The Palestinian division between Fatah and Hamas, between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and the prevailing state of monopoly by the two sides of the Palestinian division.

2- The inter-Arab wars that destroyed the decision-making countries, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, and the weakness of the other Arab countries that were drained financially and politically in the inter-wars, and in the face of regional countries colliding with them: Iran, Turkey and Ethiopia.

The truly serious colliding circle is the antithesis of the colony, and in confronting it is the Palestinian people, who have an interest in equality, independence and return, and they are the creators of the cumulative starting step in clashing with the colony and in confronting its policies and procedures and working to defeat it, so do they pay attention!! do they wake up?? Do they preach?? do they learn?? Do they know??.