The Palestinian Authority and the Al-Aqsa flood

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Introduction to the file

Following the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle, the Palestinian cause today stands at a difficult crossroads, with no signs or signs regulating its movement. At this crossroads, the international system, led by the United States, threw its old wares of “political solutions,” which it had placed long ago in the dead file drawer, where dust is accumulating tons.

“We need a renewed Palestinian authority,” they said. The authority revealed one thing and concealed another. Former Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said in denouncing: “The renewed authority that Israel and its allies want is not our authority,” but at the same time he placed his request for his resignation on the table of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “due to the need for the next stage and its challenges of new governmental and political arrangements that take into account the new reality in the Gaza Strip.” Gaza,” he said.

Thus, the Palestinian Authority began sending renewal messages to the United States and European countries, to guarantee itself a seat in the arrangements for what they call “the day after the war.” On the other hand, these countries began to re-present the path of the Palestinian state and the “two-state solution,” as they seek to revive the Palestinian Authority and re-present it as a political body with which an understanding can be reached in light of the Flood War, and as a reaction to it.

But this path is the same one that led to October 7, 2023, so to what extent is it possible to open a political horizon that previously seemed closed forever? Is it possible to breathe life into the political body of power, or are these attempts a blow to a pierced bottle? What are the possible paths for the Palestinian Authority in light of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle?

To examine these questions, Al Jazeera Net presented a file of 7 articles, entitled: The Palestinian Authority and the Flood: What is left of the Palestinian Authority?

The first article came

: Why did the West Bank not join the events of October 7th? By Muthanna Khamis, to read the role played by the Palestinian Authority during the flood, as one of many answers to the question: Where did the West Bank do the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip? The article translates the role of authority into 3 central policies: 1- Containment and relief policies; Directed in anticipation of any possible public anger, and 2- The policy of repression and tear gas; It is directed to the segments entrusted with protest action in the street, and 3- The policy of dismantling and striking; Directed to armed groups resisting the occupation. The writer also provided a basis for understanding the current context of the Authority, by considering its historical role in “re-engineering Palestinian society,” through several levels: political, security, social, and economic.l

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the second article

: A dialogue with Jamal Haweel, it is an interview prepared by Muhammad Ghafri with the Fatah leader Haweel, who is a member of the Palestinian National Council, a member of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement, and a professor of international relations at the Arab American University. He was a member of the Legislative Council that was dissolved, and he was one of the fighters in The Battle of Jenin Camp in 2002, after which he was detained in Israeli prisons for seven and a half years. The importance of this dialogue lies in the fact that Hawil is a unifying figure among the resistance of the Jenin camp, and he calls in these days of the flood for agreement on a Palestinian national program, to protect the resistance and not to persecute the resistance, as he takes a position opposing the position of the Palestinian Authority and the official position of the Fatah movement.

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the third article

: The Palestinian Authority: A brief history of the decline into the abyss, in which Tariq Khamis provides a brief history of the transformation from the project of liberation and armed struggle, which was the top priority of the Fatah movement, “the mother of the masses,” and the PLO, to the project of the Palestinian Authority and state, which swallowed up the movement and the organization. together. It is a long path of concession and retreat, which ultimately meant losing the goal of liberation and not achieving the goal of the state. The writer presents a historical narrative of this political transformation, beginning at the end of the 1950s and the birth throes of the National Movement, through the 1990s and the persecution of opponents of the state project, all the way to the stage of the second Intifada and beyond, in order to find out the realities of the West Bank today and the prospects for the Palestinian Authority in light of a new horizon presented by the flood.

The fourth article

: Resisting Neutralization: The Student Movement in the West Bank by Hassan Obaid, in which he discusses the absence or absence of the student movement from the political scene in the flood, as one of the important actors in the Palestinian issue. In order to understand the important role assigned to university students, and then work to weaken this role, the author places the development of the Palestinian student movement in its historical and spatial-political context, and monitors four stages for this: the first: the creation of the student movement for the Palestinian factions, the second: integration with the Palestinian factions, and the third: dependency The Palestinian factions and institutions and their agenda, the latest of which is: separating the student movement from its parent movements, dismantling it, and confiscating its roles.

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the fifth article

: The map of influence in the Authority: Many fingers await the obituary, Saad Al-Wahidi draws the political map of the succession battle over the Authority, and the arrangements prior to the absence of Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen. It is a map that has been in the making for some time, but it has taken on an additional dimension with the developments taking place on the Palestinian political scene after October 7, 2023. Who are the most prominent faces preparing for the Day of Obituary? What are her chances of assuming power? How did Abu Mazen arrange the scene behind him? Most important of all: What is new in this map in the context of the “Al-Aqsa Flood”?

The sixth article

: Rifles protect the occupier: the security services of the Authority, in which Ahmed Maulana studies the security services of the Palestinian Authority: the structure, work mechanisms, stages of development, and the transformations that have taken place in them. The material works to provide an overview of the Palestinian security services, from the beginning of their formation as a large group of agencies that included fighters returning with Yasser Arafat from abroad, through the new doctrine that accompanied the “security services reform” project with US General Keith Dayton as one of the results of the second intifada, all the way to Until today, we are trying to monitor the changes that have occurred in the structure of these devices. Thus, the article examines the transformations that took place in the security role, from the formation of the Palestinian Authority until the Al-Aqsa flood: What is the role of these agencies in controlling the West Bank’s resistance scene? Is it possible for the security services to play a different role like they played in the second intifada?

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the last article

: The Authority’s Economy, whose Fragility Cannot Be Possessed, Abdullah Harb presents a narrative of the Palestinian economy, and how it has become a fragile economy in the face of the winds of politics, and that it is closer to the market than to an integrated economy, and he based this on the fact that it is an economy completely dependent on the Israeli occupation. In his article, Harb starts from a desire to understand the difficult economic situation of the Palestinians today following the Flood War, and for that reason, he takes us back to the Palestinian market before the arrival of the Palestinian Authority, and sketches for us the form it was in, and the most important sectors that the Palestinians relied on, and how they contributed to their steadfastness in the face of... Occupation policies. Then he takes us to the period of the coming of the Authority and beyond, and explains the type of economic policies that the Palestinian Authority adopted, supported, and acted in accordance with, starting with the “Paris” economic agreement in 1994 and ending with the “economic reform” policies that the Authority embarked on after the second intifada, which meant in the end; Free market except from "Israel".

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Source: Al Jazeera