The Palestinian leadership and its factions rejected the agreement to normalize the Emirati-Israeli relations, and reminded Abu Dhabi that it has no right to negotiate in the name of the Palestinian people and market "delusion and nonsense at the expense of their interests." While a new Jordanian position was issued, the Gaza Strip witnessed this Wednesday morning a march rejecting the Emirati move.
On Tuesday, the Palestine Liberation Organization called on Abu Dhabi to retreat from what it described as a historic error. And it issued a statement saying that the Emirati-Israeli normalization came at the expense of the Palestinian people and their cause.
Last Thursday, Israel and the UAE agreed to establish full relations. The agreement stipulated that Israel delay annexing more of the occupied West Bank.
In a meeting that included the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) and the Islamic Resistance (Hamas), Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that Abu Dhabi had stabbed the Palestinian issue in the back, and confirmed that the responses to the agreement would be withdrawn to any country that follows the example of Abu Dhabi.
Abbas said that the UAE has no right to speak in the name of the Palestinian people, and accused it of abandoning the Palestinians who live under occupation in the West Bank and under siege in Gaza.
Illusion and stupidity
But he said, "We are not concerned with what is going on here and there from the nonsense, especially the last time. In recent days, when he announced a tripartite agreement between the UAE, Israel and America."
He added, "They tried to delude others, and the world, that the UAE has brought us a great achievement, which is the rejection of annexation, as if the only Palestinian issue is the issue of annexation."
He said, "Deny everything, the rights of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian state, to see the two states, the honorable Jerusalem that was annexed and its annexation has been declared. The Palestinian cause".
As for the Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Saeb Erekat stressed that the organization, as the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, did not authorize anyone to speak on its behalf, nor would it allow anyone to decide on behalf of the Palestinian people.
Erekat affirmed that "the State of Palestine and the PLO adhere to the option of achieving a just and comprehensive peace based on international legitimacy and law, and the Arab Peace Initiative, as a basis and reference for any political process."
Normalization is betrayal
In Gaza, hundreds of Palestinians participated this morning, Wednesday, in a march organized by the factions, rejecting the normalization agreement between the UAE and Israel.
The march was titled "Normalization is Betrayal", and the participants flocked to it from all regions of the Gaza Strip and raised the flags of Palestine.
The participants in the march were led by faction leaders, most notably Khalil al-Hayya, deputy head of Hamas in Gaza, and Ahmed Hillis, a member of the Fatah Central Committee.
"We stand again in a stand filled with anger, revolution and congestion," Al-Hayya said in a speech during the march. He added, "The Palestinian people are united with all its sects and factions, in Gaza and the West Bank, to confront the sinful process of normalization and the sinful trot series."
He continued, "Today we say to the typists: Do not be happy, for we differ in the face of the occupation, but we are united for our rights, and do not think that we are a dispersed people, we are a people rooted in its land."
In turn, the leader of the Fatah movement, Ahmed Hilles, denounced the Emirati-Israeli normalization agreement, and said in a speech during the march that the Palestinian people will not be flattered and will not allow anyone to beautify normalization with the Israeli entity.
Jordanian comment
For his part, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said that the occupation is the basis of the conflict, and that the end of the occupation according to the two-state solution based on international legitimacy decisions, signed agreements and the Arab Peace Initiative is the only way to resolve the conflict and achieve a just peace.
After talks with Erekat in Jericho, Safadi added that the main demand for resolving the conflict is to stop annexation and commit to the two-state solution that guarantees the embodiment of the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Al-Safadi warned that what else would lead to deepening the conflict and undermine all chances of achieving a just peace, which is a regional and international necessity.