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- The second Palestinian Intifada (Al-Aqsa Intifada) in 2000 marked a turning point in the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians of 1948, when they paid their share in this confrontation with the martyrdom of 13 young men, including by the bullets of the Israeli police, which opened the door wide open in their struggle to preserve their identity.

Every year, 48 Palestinians commemorate the "October giveaway" of 2000 and the martyrdom of a number of them in a series of large demonstrations in response to the then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which led to the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada.

The gift of 2000 was the most prominent confrontation of the Palestinians of the interior after decades of facing “Land Day” in 1976, and before their involvement in what was known as the “gift of dignity” in May 2021, when they returned to confrontation with Israel in a popular uprising that united the historic squares of Palestine in support of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque and a challenge The racist policies of the occupation coincided with a fierce Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians inside carry pictures of 13 martyrs who were killed by Israel in the October uprising at the beginning of the second intifada in 2000 (Al-Jazeera)

articulated station

Political analyst Amir Makhoul believes that the uprising of the Palestinians of the interior at the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 was a pivotal station and a decisive event in the relationship between the Palestinians of 1948 and the occupier.

In contrast to the aspirations and goals of Israel in its dealings with the Palestinians and the people of the interior in particular, Makhoul tells Al Jazeera Net, "The Al-Aqsa Intifada came to establish the identity of the Arab and Palestinian 48 Palestinians, and their rejection of family projects. Later on, the national identity was the main engine to confront Israeli projects at home, and it became This is in the gift of dignity 2021.”

It is very clear, as the political analyst says, that "Israel, through its hegemonic policies, failed to make the 48 Palestinians a tool that it volunteered in its political game and to push them to make concessions in exchange for some living gains and alienate them from the Palestinian cause in general, and this was what was causing a reverse reaction and rebellion against its policies." The Israeli mechanisms of repression have been met with adherence to the single Palestinian identity.


"Erase the green line"

In a report by the Mada al-Carmel Center for Applied Social Studies, based in Haifa, entitled "The popular uprising in the ranks of the Palestinian community in Israel: erasing the Green Line," political science professor Muhannad Mustafa says that what is common between the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 and the popular uprising in May 2021 is the comprehensive protests In all areas of the Palestinian presence.

In the opinion of Mustafa, who is the director of Mada al-Carmel Center, the Al-Aqsa Intifada was the product of a political discourse by the 48 Palestinians rejecting the "Oslo" project, while the gift of dignity erupted despite the atrophy and decline of this discourse and the rise of an alternative discourse that seeks to influence through integration into the Israeli political game.

He points out that the popular uprising in 2021 - which extended to the interior - marked an important moment in the history of the Palestinians since the Al-Aqsa Intifada, especially as it erupted in the midst of a state of political fragmentation.

Mustafa believes that the discourse of integration into the Israeli regime fell through the gift of dignity by uniting the arenas of the Palestinian struggle, and the consolidation of the idea of ​​erasing and erasing the Green Line in the consciousness of the Palestinians of 48 and what it represents from the separation from their popular extension in all of Palestine on the one hand, and erasing it in the tools of the Israeli establishment and methods of suppression and dealing with the gift Popularity in historical Palestine in general.

The "green line" symbolizes the boundary between the Palestinian areas occupied by Israel in the 1948 Nakba and those it occupied after the 1967 war (the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip).

Marches of the 48 Palestinians, rejecting the racist Israeli legislation and policies (Al-Jazeera)

failed to isolate them

In a reading of the failure of Israeli policies to neutralize the Palestinians of the interior from their national struggle, journalist writer Taha Igbariya confirms that the interaction of the 48 Palestinians with the issue of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and their payment of blood tax with the martyrdom of 13 of them, at the beginning of the second intifada, confirms the failure of Israeli policies to isolate them, flay them and neutralize them from the project of liberation for the people. Palestinian.

Igbariya explained, in an interview with Al Jazeera Net, that the racist and repressive Israeli policies against the Palestinians of the 48th provoked a reverse response that contributed to strengthening the national identity, especially among the new generation of the Palestinians of the 48th, which was manifested in their involvement in the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which paved the way for the crystallization of youth and popular movements across historic Palestine and the areas of asylum. and diaspora.

In Igbariya’s opinion, popular gifts share in the fact that they always come to rebel against the “Oslo” agreement, which aimed at undermining the Palestinian national liberation project and dismantling the Palestinian people and isolating them from each other, including the people of the interior, whose number reached about two million people, “a scheme that was thwarted in a gift.” dignity".

A cumulative situation that Israel fears

Igbaria says that the Palestinian interior - despite repression and attempts to tame and intimidation and compromising rights for economic gains, and even in light of the fragmentation of its political and partisan components - challenges Israel's racist practices that seek to erase it, obliterate its identity and rob its land and rights as part of the Palestinian people in general, to install the project of the Jewish state in Palestine Historic.

In response to a question about the possibility of repeating the gift of dignity and confrontation with the Israeli establishment, and its development for a broader uprising, Igbariya says, "As long as Israel practices racism, violence and incitement against the Palestinians of 1948, and as long as it perpetuates its occupation of the Palestinian people, violates Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and besieges Gaza, such gifts will be repeated, perhaps in scenes and various mechanisms.

However, Igbaria believes at the same time that "the absence of a real political organization for the 48 Palestinians, and the failure to strengthen and develop their struggle mechanisms, will keep these popular donations within the framework of spontaneous reactions to Israel's oppressive practices, which may put pressure on the Israeli establishment to obtain some rights."

Accordingly, the writer believes that "without a political organization for the Palestinians inside, the gifts will be repeated, but they will soon subside, although this is a cumulative situation that Israel fears of repercussions."