Ursula's biased statements to Israel and has the Palestinian issue become a social situation!

The video, which included a statement made by Ursula Gertrude von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, on the occasion of Israel's celebration of the 75th anniversary of its establishment, and published on the website of the European Union office in Tel Aviv, sparked angry reactions and statements of condemnation and denunciation by the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and various leaders and factions. And Palestinian circles and frameworks for his blatant bias towards Israel, his denial of the Nakba, his hostility to the Palestinian people and their national rights, and his inclusion and adoption of the fallacies and lies promoted by Zionist propaganda.

Before examining the reasons for the decline in international support for the Palestinian cause, especially in Europe, against which Ursula’s statement came, which is supposed to represent an official European position because of the official status she represents, let us stop a little at what was stated in it and discuss it objectively.
Ursula says:

“Dear President Herzog, dear friends. 75 years ago, after the greatest tragedy in human history, the dream of Israel’s independence came true. The Jewish people were finally able to build their home in the Promised Land. Today we celebrate 75 years of vibrant democracy in the heart of the Middle East. With 75 years of dynamism, creativity and pioneering innovation.

“You made the desert bloom in the literal sense of the word, as I saw for myself during my visit to the Negev last year. Today we also celebrate 75 years of friendship between Israel and Europe. We have more in common than geography, our common culture, our values, and hundreds of thousands of people would suggest. "Dual Israeli-European citizens who have built a deep bond between us. Europe and Israel must be friends and allies. Your freedom is our freedom. Merry Christmas to all the people of Israel."
(She concluded her speech by saying in Hebrew: "Yom Holidt Sameh," meaning "Happy Birthday."

In order to give the matter its due importance, it must be noted that Ursula von der Leyen is an ancient German political figure from the Christian Democratic Party, and she was the first woman to hold the position of Minister of Defense in Germany, in addition to holding several successive senior positions during the period from 2005-2019 under the government Angela Merkel, she was elected by European heads of state to preside over the European Commission in 2019 and the European Parliament approved this after listening and approving her program for the next five years that ends in 2024, and she is also the first woman to hold this position. She is a seasoned politician and her political future is still ahead of her, and every word she says must be taken care of because it expresses a position and a policy that must be taken very seriously.

Historical fabrications and fallacies and denial of the Nakba
The statement she made included, in addition to warm sympathy for Israel and the Jews, which are expected of any German who bears the burden of the Holocaust, it also included historical inaccuracies and denial of the Nakba / catastrophe that befell the Palestinian people who found themselves paying the price of the Holocaust made by Nazi criminals Ursula's predecessors You must admit that we have paid and are still paying the price for the crimes of its German predecessors, and that Israel was established on the remains of the Palestinian people after the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland Palestine in 1948, the demolition of 521 Palestinian villages and towns, and the perpetration of dozens of pogroms against innocent, defenseless Palestinian civilians by Jewish gangs. and the seizure of material and moral property of the Palestinian people.

It must also admit that Palestine was not a desert as it claimed, but rather it was full of life and civil, social, political and cultural prosperity and was a destination for artists, writers, businessmen and visitors from neighboring countries, and it had an airport, railways, theaters, cinemas and colleges of higher education, including a college of law An advanced civilized model in the region.

And it must remember that Israel, which it describes as democracy, is a fake democracy that discriminates among its citizens on ethnic grounds and is gradually slipping towards racist extremism and Presbyterianism. Since 1967, it has occupied another people of nearly five million Palestinians, depriving them of their most basic rights of expression, movement and ownership. It has plundered and continues to plunder their lands and properties, establish settlement colonies on them, steal their natural resources, and establish an apartheid system by all standards.

What Ursula made of statements reveals the blind bias towards Israel and the double standards and double standards practiced by her and her fellow Westerners towards the Palestinian people. In it all European colonies outside the European continent ended, and only Israel remained from those colonies, which began to drown in the sea of racism and extremism, and which will not be more fortunate than its predecessors in South Africa, Algeria and other countries that suffered from European colonialism but struggled against it and finally liberated from it. his clutches.

It is certain that if Ursula had respected the slightest measure of the feelings of the Palestinian person or feared his reaction or the reaction of those who represent him, or had respected the principles of right, justice and self-determination of peoples, she would not have uttered these statements that constitute a distortion and falsification of history, and she would not have denied the catastrophe of the Nakba that was committed against the Palestinian people, and when she made these statements, which constitute cheap hypocrisy and flattery of the Israelis. Just as denying the Holocaust is a crime, we believe that denying the Nakba is also a crime.

The deterioration of the Palestinian internal situation is behind the decline in the European position

The question that arises is what caused the decline of the European position towards the Palestinian people and their just cause since the Venice statement in June 1980, which recognized the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people and demanded an end to the occupation and the inadmissibility of annexing the lands of others by force in accordance with Resolution 242, and called for recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to rule He himself, and the right of the PLO to be a partner in any political initiative, and demanded the demarcation of the borders of the countries of the region, and between what we see today of European denial and disregard for the rights of the Palestinian people and the equality of the executioner with the victim.

This question is suitable to be the subject of a master's thesis or even a PhD by a student in political science, but I will answer it briefly by saying that the retreat from supporting the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people leading to the denial and disregard of these rights and their owners by some is an inevitable result of the decline in Palestinian performance On all fronts. When there was a Palestinian revolution and resistance before the exodus from Beirut, there were those who feared the Palestinians or who sympathized with them, but since we accepted the description of legitimate resistance as violence and terrorism and declared our “renunciation of violence and terrorism”, we entered the corridors of vague political paths and began to wrestle internally over spoils that do not exist. On the ground, corruption and financial and administrative imbalances began to eat away at the Palestinian body, and the world began to abandon us and retreat from its recognition of our rights and deal with us as a non-political social condition and give us crumbs so that we remain as we are, because we have transformed from a national struggle project into an economic and financial begging project and this is what They want it for us.

Today's Palestinian situation "does not please a friend and does not enrage the enemy." Since 2002, we have been moving in the opposite direction to the one we started when we entered the political track. Over the past twenty years or so, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has been emptied, marginalized, and mummified, becoming mere names and structures that meet only on occasions (and this is a subject that has its complexities and ramifications that need to be delved into into research and studies that cannot be summarized in lines), and the luster of many Palestinian factions has dimmed. Its roots were extinguished, and it no longer had any role in the struggle on the ground, and it now subsisted on ruminating on the glories of the past and singing about it, and its representatives turned into rubber stamps to pass what was dictated to them without opposition, because any opposition might affect the budgets paid to these factions or the personal privileges granted to their leaders. The structure of the Palestinian National Authority, which began to be built as a basis for a state on the way, was dismantled and then relapsed and suffered from contraction and muscular atrophy represented by the merger of the three authorities and calcification represented by the desertification of people and performance, hostility to the foundations of good governance, and the abandonment of opportunities for young energies.

The world around us is neither blind nor stupid. They know that we have abandoned the march of liberation and become a social condition. All you need is "improving the financial situation of the authority through the so-called confidence-building measures", which is translated into "improving the security situation of the occupation" to perpetuate the current situation and empower Israel from continuing to implement its expansionist settlement programs under the pretext of managing the conflict and not resolving it. As long as we remain in this situation, we beg the countries of the world to provide us with material support so that we can pay the costs of the service tasks entrusted to us that are originally from the tasks of the occupation, so we will continue to be subject to blackmail and insults like those that Ursula said.

Unfortunately, ending the occupation is no longer on anyone's agenda, but on some lips as a lip service that neither fattens nor nourishes from hunger, and the world does not respect the weak and does not care about beggars. This situation calls for a bold pause with oneself and an answer to the question: What has brought us to this humiliation? And the answer is known to everyone who keeps wondering: Who will ring the bell?
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