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Tue 06 Jun 2023 10:02 am - Jerusalem Time

Jerusalem and the memory of the passing of Faisal Al-Husseini...and the crisis of leadership

The leadership crisis in Jerusalem is part of the crisis of the Palestinian leadership, and of the general crisis of the Palestinian political system, which varies relatively between those bodies.... Perhaps the special status of Jerusalem is in terms of the entity’s comprehensive control over the city, through its military, security, police, economic and civil presence, and its fight against it. For all manifestations of Palestinian presence and sovereignty in the city, and its endeavor to prevent any form of that sovereignty from above through the authority and its institutions or popular through forces, committees and institutions, or participatory between the two sides, this calls for striving to create creative thinking, on how to build a Palestinian Jerusalem leadership, as a public body along the lines of The Higher Arab Follow-up Committee in the Palestinian Interior-48, and in order for this body to succeed and develop and gain its legitimacy, it must be liberated from the restrictions of factionalism and narrow calculations. In order to resolve it with the highest level of "savagery" and "encroachment", and a comprehensive attack on the Arab Jerusalemites in it, in order to achieve a demographic and geographic change in it, it can promote Jerusalem as its "eternal capital," says the extremist immigrant to Palestine, the Zionist Minister of Transportation Miri Raghev, whose government monitored 30 billion shekels over five years to develop and create a modern transportation network in the city of Jerusalem, which contributes to its Judaization, and makes public transportation, especially trains and railways, the basis of that transportation, which will be fed by the rest of the other public transportation.


Extremist Loaf speaks of Jerusalem as since the dawn of history, "three thousand years ago, it was the capital of the Jews...and it works with all Jewish extremists and fascism, in order to rob the city of its identity, history, civilization, culture, and narrative, and even its religious sanctities, the Al-Aqsa Mosque..and to "steal" consciousness Its Palestinian Arab population, through a frenzied effort to integrate them into the society and economy of the entity-state... by what tears them apart and dismantles their collective identity, denies their existence as a people, and turns them into mere population gatherings that lack their national, national and cultural characteristics.... and considers the institutions of the entity-state a reference for them.. Therefore, we are witnessing a fierce campaign against the city, in order for all the institutions of the entity-state in the city to replace the Palestinian institutions, and to prevent the crystallization of any form of Palestinian sovereignty in it, and to use to achieve this the might of its military machine and its security, intelligence, police, and civil apparatus from the municipality and the Ministry of Education, Welfare, Transportation, and Affairs Social and other things... Therefore, huge budgets have been allocated for this purpose, for what is known as the civil service, the police, community centers, social welfare services, "familying" education, breaking through the "wall" and the structure of society and working to dismantle it by linking that to reform and family committees affiliated with it .... led Directly by its police..... What we are currently witnessing of the "Israelization" of the entire educational process in the city of Jerusalem, and the complete expulsion and displacement of the Palestinian curriculum also has to do with sovereignty. The national curriculum is a form of sovereignty, and therefore it is clear that it is under a Palestinian authority. Helpless and dilapidated, the entity's state is going to resolve the conflict on this front.


What we have witnessed in many schools in the city of Jerusalem in terms of deviant manifestations, related to “sabotage”, “ironing” and “razing” of awareness, should sound a warning bell in front of everyone in order for them to assume their responsibilities. We are not against our students learning in schools, regardless of The educational reference is the Hebrew language, and therefore it is not permissible in any way to "Branize" the consciousness of our students and alienate it, as this would shake our students' convictions of their rights, identity and belonging, and introduce the culture of "normalization" into their awareness and thought, and herein lies the danger, the loss of the characteristics of our national and cultural existence, Achieving the dream of the leaders of the entity state, by dismantling the awareness of our students and controlling their collective memory.

It is true that during the era of Commander Faisal Al-Husseini, which passed less than a week ago, the 22nd anniversary of his death, he formed a unifying leader for the Palestinian political, national and societal spectrum in the city, and he possessed leadership “charisma” that enabled him to play this leadership role, by communicating with the masses and standing up to their concerns And its daily problems, and striving to solve them... But in order for the leadership approach to be fair, it must be said that the late great Faisal Al-Husseini had a set of factors and circumstances that allowed him to play and exercise this leadership role. There is the headquarters "Orient House", and there is The capabilities, and there are the forces and the masses rallied around it, and the "gene" of division had not hit the Palestinian arena, and so was the headquarters of the "Orient House", the political headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which enjoys some kind of immunity, and this facilitated work and communication between the leadership and the masses, but who After the abortion of the first intifada, the hasty political exploitation of its results, and the signing of the disastrous Oslo agreement, which the entity state, despite all its flaws, defects, and serious repercussions, refused to implement, the second intifada came, and Sharon launched, in September 2000, an all-out war against our Palestinian people, the “defensive wall.” And the consequent closure of Palestinian institutions, including the "Orient House", as the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and after that many official references were formed for Jerusalem, the Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs, a governorate, a popular national conference, the unit of the presidency in the office of the president, the official of Jerusalem In the executive committee of the organization...all of these official bodies were not allowed to operate or exercise their authority, sovereignty and role within the borders of the apartheid walls in Jerusalem. Rather, the entity's government and its intelligence services sought and worked to punish anyone who tried to exercise a work, role, or activity for the authority Or in its name in the city of Jerusalem - inside the apartheid wall, and there are those who lead these references, who adapt to the policy of the entity state, and there are those who rebel against that policy, and were subjected to a series of sanctions, and so that some do not hunt and carry words with certain meanings and purposes, we do not question one's affiliation or nationality.

In light of the complex and complex situation experienced by the people of Jerusalem, and the massive targeting of them by the entity state, at all levels and levels, I see that a public, popular Jerusalemite leadership body is formed, which takes responsibility for the civil, social and legal issues of Jerusalemites, provided that the issue of national political rights remains one of The jurisdiction of the Palestinian official authorities, the Palestine Liberation Organization.

We realize that there will be no immunity or protection for this leadership body, in light of an extreme right-wing and Jewish fascist government that wants to exclude and get rid of as much of the Palestinian population as possible from the city, and the European Union, America and what is known as the international community, cannot be relied upon to support this body Leadership and protection for him... However, practical initiatives must be proposed to create a leadership body that will be a title for Jerusalemites, unite them and defend their life, living and civil rights, because Jerusalem is on the verge of very difficult days.

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