For Palestine, which retreated in the hearts of the Arabs after they announced their spring!

The absence of Palestine from the "spring"
Have you fallen in the hearts?
What did Palestine do to the Arabs?

The latest aggression on the Gaza Strip, which killed 35 martyrs, did not resonate with the expected sympathy among the Arab peoples.It was like an isolated escalation from its Arab environment despite the grave crimes committed by the Israeli occupation army by its planes between 12 and 14 November.

There were only a few banners and candles for Gaza, held by demonstrators in Lebanon and Iraq during the daily demonstrations in these two countries, without a popular tendency to protest the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip. This solidarity reached its peak during the 2008 and 2009 war, when thousands of demonstrators supported Gaza, but now that memories remain! It ended even though the aggression did not end; it was repeated in the 2012 and 2014 war, and in 2019, and almost no one moved.

Palestine is absent from public interest and support, and the media, while the Arab Spring has lived since it began in 2010 and until its recent renewal in Sudan, Algeria, then Iraq and Lebanon, it gets all the attention, and seems an interesting young subject in the face of a conflict of age, where it is no longer The Palestinian issue is of interest to anyone.

The surprise factor may be a huge attraction for the masses. No one expected that the demonstrations in Sudan and Algeria would end with the fall of the heads of the two ruling regimes, after the spring suffered from the long ambiguity and the success of counter-revolutions, but its seeds proved that it can still leak among the most severe Fists to grow again.

A quick look at the end of the Arab Spring in the Arab countries; she discovers that countries whose political system has faced revolutions with widespread repression and killing are still stuck at the moment of change, as in Syria, Yemen, and Libya; those that have experienced less severe violence have been faster in change, such as Egypt, Tunisia, and more recently. Algeria and Sudan, all of which remained dependent on the will of the military who succeeded in controlling political life in Egypt and Algeria, but did not in Tunisia and Sudan.

The absence of Palestine from the "spring"
It cannot be forgotten that the transition to democracies disturbs Israel but frightens them, because the revolutions make the street's position more weighty in the calculations of the regimes with which it has completed the "peace agreements", and the Israeli Home Front Minister Eyal Eisenberg warned of what he called "the Arab Spring, which may turn into Islamic extremist winter.

Hence, Israel was keen to preoccupy Palestine with aggression and drown it in Al-Aqsa's repeated violations of Jerusalem, settlement building, and internal political division, so as not to catch up with political spring and social change.

Indeed, over the past few years, Palestine has not been present in Palestine, nor has Palestine been present at the heart of the Arab Spring. The Arab regime, which is constrained by most of its states with political, economic, and security dependencies, wanted direct and explicit disengagement from the Palestinian cause, which in turn was not a priority for the handcuffed. The most severe types of tyranny restrictions.

Perhaps the uprising wanted to emancipate first, grab liberties and democracy, improve livelihoods, and disengage from subordination, and then support for Palestine would be an achievement. This makes sense, especially as the Israelis, the Americans and some Arab countries feared most: to reconnect the Arab liberation struggle to Palestinian liberation, and to move from dictatorships to democracies.

If we are to seek the joint tasks of Palestinian and Arab liberation, the Arab struggle against relations of political, economic and security dependence, and against tyrannical regimes, cannot be achieved without the struggle against Israeli colonialism and its chronic military occupation, which reinforces relations of dependency and favors tyrannical regimes.

Here, the Arab and Palestinian struggle meets when the task of ending the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and the emancipation of relations of dependence and the grip of the tyranny. When the occupation and despotism retreat, relations of dependency decline, and if we examine the element of convergence between the Arab and Palestinian struggles, we will find a deep level of interdependence between missions away from formal separation.

Therefore, the task of the Arab and Palestinian cultural and academic levels is to redefine the common Palestinian interests and tasks, which remained captive to the only nationalist, liberal and leftist concepts.

Goals shorten the real change hoped for by the Arab Spring in the length and breadth of the region, towards that unholy alliance (the UAE and its sisters), which is keen to prevent the success of the revolutions at any cost, which led them to support the counter-revolution, which was the champion of excellence, and enabled the Alliance with all the money From reviving desolate despotic systems.

Palestine itself did not witness its own spring and fell to the tail of Arab attention, even with the collapse of the dreams of the Arab peoples that came out in the protests of million in 2011, and then return to the dictatorship, poverty, injustice and need again.

The issues of Palestine that were once sacred - such as the assault on Jerusalem and the killing of children in Gaza - are far from that sympathy and support, which was necessary throughout the 1980s and 1990s and the beginning of the second millennium with the second Palestinian intifada.

Have you fallen in the hearts?
Palestine is no longer the symbol of the Arabs, and the time of those nationalist romances ended only in the eyes of a few leftists. The Arab peoples are coldly receiving any Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, so that they will not see any effective reflection on the street or on social media networks.

This was the case during the waves of Israeli aggression in May and November of this year, and killed 57 martyrs in four days during which the eyelid did not blink an Arab city, as if Palestine had become a purely local affair.

The Palestinian issue has not been raised on the agenda of those who are concerned about freedoms, drafting the internal constitutions of their countries, monitoring human rights violations and repression against demonstrators.

The fall of martyrs in the confrontations made the Arab rebel not only see the blood of his colleague or relative in the revolution, and does not see the martyrs of Jerusalem who fall daily, and no longer has the ability and time to follow the martyrs of the Arab world, where bloodshed is too fast to be counted in Syria, Lebanon and Egypt Yemen and Iraq.

There are many factors that made Palestine retreat in the hearts of the Arab masses during the revolutions in the first and second Arab Spring waves; solidarity is not unilateral, and the liberation and democratic struggle must be shared!

The prevailing culture of the Palestinian victim contributed to the absence of the Arab and international interest from the Palestinian people and to the monopoly of the struggle. The Palestinian may demand support and solidarity and this is a natural right, but in return the Palestinian is required to support others and solidarity with them when they embark on the revolution and the intifada. The status of the victim and in the monopoly of the struggle, as if only the Palestinian theater.

Therefore, it does not seem strange that the Palestinian parties - as well as their loyal followers - waited as a result of the Arab uprisings to declare their support for the victor. Fear dominated these sanctions if they sided with the rising peoples. However, what was required - at a minimum - was not to support these Palestinian leaderships authoritarian regimes oppressing their people, and this did not happen, but they announced it, especially the Palestinian National Authority.

Another factor that has weakened Arab interest in the Palestinian cause is the Palestinian-Palestinian divide and media battles between Fatah and Hamas for nearly 13 years, making the Palestine issue seem to the Arabs a power game between two parties.

The third factor is the resistance that is supposed to enthuse the Arab masses and turn Jerusalem back to their hearts, but what has happened is that the exaggerated media discourse has left the Arabs feeling that Palestine is capable of liberating itself and possesses military power, which makes it a peer to Israel.

It is also undeniable that linking Palestine to political Islam made it appear to be an issue of specific religious groups, which aroused an aversion to it on an official level rather than popularly, especially after confronting the Muslim Brotherhood in countries where it came to power after the Arab Spring revolutions such as Egypt and Tunisia.

This is what prompted the men of the Egyptian State Security Service recently to arrest a group of fans who shouted from the stands of the Cairo stadium: "In spirit, with blood, we redeem you, Palestine", as if these fans declared that they were brothers to cheer for Palestine, as if the Palestinian cause in Egypt is no longer Arab nationalism at all!

What did Palestine do to the Arabs?
Palestine has remained the star of the Arab world in its influence on generations for many years, especially when the former republican regimes, especially the Nasserist regime, considered Israel an obstacle to the development of their countries, and sought to curb the Israeli role. However, what happened is that these regimes began to change after the defeat of 1967, and witnessed a serious turning point, especially for the Egyptian regime by signing the Camp David Accord.

Then began a series of internal transformations that moved these countries towards new dependency relations reinforced by tyrannical regimes, and then changed the status of Palestine to these regimes, treating them as a card for internal use and to alleviate the resentment of peoples, which made "Palestine" unbelievable to anyone, especially when the Arab Spring Priorities have changed, with the emblem of emancipation from the tyrannical regime becoming a priority.

Perhaps it helps us to understand what happened to ask more daring questions such as: Has Palestine as a people solidified with the Arab uprisings and revolutions at a time when the pluralistic Palestinian political system was aligned with Arab regimes?

In his article, Jonathan Freeland says: "Muslims' view of the conflict in Palestine as the central question in their lives is completely incomprehensible. The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza is important for the refugees in Gaza, but it is not possible for the Palestinians to be angry." [New borders between Palestine and Israel are important for these two nations, but how can they help Muslims ... who live under brutal and repressive regimes? They will not. "

These ideas seem very cruel but also realistic; what has Palestine added to the Arab world during decades of peoples solidarity with them? How can adherence to it change the reality of unemployment, poverty and injustice? nothing.

Therefore, the Arab citizen did not look for her in the midst of his efforts to change his local conditions, even after the majority of his attempts failed, and returned to square one, and after being exhausted by the let down and his last breath was withdrawn, and so Palestine news passed by him several times in several wars and did not notice them.

Hence, the question of Palestine lost the opportunity to change its image for the better in many Arab countries. The peak of the loss was the opening of Arab states and regimes to Israel and turning the Arab Peace Initiative upside down. Normalization began without ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, stopping the settlements and enabling the Palestinian people to Self-determination and the establishment of an independent state. In this sense Israel emerged victorious, and its victory came because of the theft of democratic revolutions by feeding the counter-revolution and old regimes!