The dialogue of guns, stones and burning tires away from the dialogue of salons

Written by: Ziyad Abu Ziyad

Despite the special status that Algeria enjoys among the Palestinian people because of its absolute support for them and their cause on the official and popular levels, the announcement that Algeria will host a new dialogue in the series of reconciliation meetings did not receive serious attention from the Palestinian public opinion, and even those who cared about this meeting were divided into two groups: The first is pitying the brotherly Algeria out of disappointment because it believes that this meeting will fail as the meetings that preceded it failed, for chronic reasons that everyone knows, and will cause embarrassment to Algeria, which is dear to the heart of every Palestinian. The financial resources that this meeting will cost her, as it is, according to her, a resting point in the series of reconciliation meetings that have turned into more like tourist tours.
The observer is not inclined to direct any blame, whether to those sympathetic to Algeria who fear embarrassment and failure for it, or those who mocked and mocked the parties to dialogue and reconciliation. This is the tenth meeting in a series of those meetings, in which Mecca, Cairo, Doha, Moscow, Beirut and Algeria were some of its stations, and they were all sterile without success.
In my humble opinion, the issue of reconciliation is no longer the subject of any practical discussion because it is not included in the calculations of either Fatah or Hamas after a new reality has crystallized on the ground from which neither of them can liberate or abandon it, whether as organizations or as individuals with influential interests in both and benefiting from this situation. , while the Palestinian people and their national cause became hostage in the hands of the two movements.
Based on this understanding, any approach to rapprochement between the two parties must search for new beginnings and new starting points that start from where each of them stands today and not from where they were together a decade and a half ago, taking into consideration all the internal, regional and international developments.
What is happening on the ground proves that the rift is no longer between Fatah and Hamas, but between the people on the one hand and both movements combined on the other, in addition to the fact that there is a widening gap between the people and the political leaders in general because some of these leaders no longer have any connection with al-Qaeda. Popularity and there is no presence in the field, but it feeds on glories and an outdated "struggle" history.
Therefore, no one should be surprised if the flash of the Algeria match gradually faded, despite all attempts to revive it. What is going on on earth is stronger and greater than all the encounters and white-collar acrobats and idiots laughing.
And if the Algerian dialogue did not succeed in attracting attention, this is because the real dialogue that attracted people’s attention and follow-up was the dialogue of guns, hands, stones and burning tires, which occupied a large area of the map of the homeland and which sent the strongest messages to the other party that after more than half a century and half a decade, our people will not He acquiesces and will not surrender, and he is tirelessly determined to continue his struggle to end the occupation and to live in freedom and dignity on his national soil.
The message of the last days and weeks is a multi-dimensional message, the first dimension of which is the fall of the paper of the traditional frameworks and organizations that have taken refuge in the comfortable seats, relaxed on them and become obsessed with sleepiness, and the second dimension is the high rejection of the occupation and all its detachments and the insistence on continuing the struggle path to achieve the right, and the third dimension of this The message is that our battle and our confrontation is not only with the Israeli military occupation, but also with its settlers who are an integral part of this occupation, especially the generations that were born from them on our occupied land and who were imbued with the culture of violence and terrorism against us under the illusion that this could extract us from it and throw us into the maze of alienation. , Which we saw in the streets of Hawara a few days ago and in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem the day before yesterday, with which we will have upcoming tours and tours that are more like the civil war as it was with the French settlers in Algeria, and it is the one that will resolve the matter of confrontation with the occupation until it leaves with its settlers exactly as it was As it happened in Algeria. The fourth dimension of this message, of which Jerusalem was an essential part of its beating heart, is that there are new facts that are more like the labor pains of a new generation and a new awareness, and that this labor comes from the core of popular legitimacy and that those who were once where they stand The buds of this labor are to take the initiative to search for common denominators with them and to embrace them so that the compass will not be lost or the thinking of anyone will be confused. The goal is the same, which is freedom and the end of the occupation, and reaching this goal requires unity of ranks and goal, and rejecting the frustrated, the skeptical, the handicapped, and those who hasten to rush to collect the crumbs of spoils, under the illusion that the battle is over.
The people who are most entitled to pick up these messages and understand them well are those who crowd every time at the ticket windows to the dialogue tours and who only see them as opportunities for recreation and hiking, perhaps some of them will be better at capturing wisdom and lessons.