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Friday, 23 January 2009
Zuheir Kseibati
The hurriedness of some regional sides to sound the death knell of the reconciliation or the inter-Arab reconciliations, will not promote a core understanding of the barbaric Israeli war on Gaza and the Palestinian people (not the people of the strip), nor will it help us absorb the lessons of the catastrophe that was completely covered up by George Bush's administration.
Those in hurry to sound this death knell are predicting further havoc, devastation, and more rounds of chaos and murder in the region. This does not give any hope about the usefulness of repairing the walls of the Arab decision infiltrated by regional powers.
Is it a coincidence that spreading the nightmares was accompanied by a renewed Iranian attack on Egypt's initiative and Cairo's efforts to find a mechanism for the implementation of Resolution 1860, and to convince Hamas and Fatah that time has come for reconciliation and that reviving the vicious circles of dialogue and drowning in the mud of jurisprudence - under the catastrophe of the Palestinians in Gaza - represent a collusion with the Israeli aggression?
There is no doubt - before and after the crimes perpetrated by Israel in Gaza - that Hamas is part of the Palestinian people, which Israel cannot uproot by force or by other means, even if it sees its battle against Hamas as a proxy battle against Iran. But the first responsibility of the movement - at the humanitarian and moral level - requires making a purely rational loss and profit accounts, and answering a single question:
Can Hamas poll the Gazans - not over the devastation, the genocide and the loss of more than 1,300 Palestinian martyrs - but over their support or opposition to the movement's perseverance to dictate its conditions on the resistance and its possible rejection of the looming Egyptian-brokered mechanism aimed at supervising the Rafah crossing in cooperation with the Europeans and reviving a kind of existence for the Palestinian Authority?
Also - can Hamas overcome the Arabs' authorization for Egypt to continue its efforts towards an inter-Palestinian reconciliation?... Can Hamas realize that in order for it to overcome the catastrophe and avoid another one, it has to extend its hand to President Abbas and settle the differences through dialogue…so as to avoid the classification of "the people of Gaza" and perhaps at a later stage "the people of the West Bank."
After all, doesn't this represent the chief Israeli purposes?
Hamas says it does not need lessons from anyone - not even from any mediator. But the post-catastrophe reality and the images of Israel's atrocities and destruction must prompt Hamas to reconsider the price of falling in the trap of instigation. If the statement of the Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on the right of the resistance to get weapons from whatever place possible was not an incitement to undermine Egypt and refuse any mechanism to implement Resolution 1860, what could then be the definition of incitement ?
It appears clear that Tehran was the biggest loser after the breakthrough that has been achieved in the Arab economic summit in Kuwait, represented by the meeting between the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and Qatar - which will increase the chances for an inter-Palestinian reconciliation. The tension pointed out by the Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa - which hampered the adoption of a political decision on Gaza (the mechanism of the reconstruction fund) and the Arab peace initiative - does not shrug off this breakthrough.
The agreements announced by Qatar following the surprise-meeting - which remained undisclosed of course - obviously require a transition between the tension and the revival of a unified vision for the joint Arab action, after many years in which the policies were overshadowed by regional infiltrations.
Even though everyone in the region is able to put an end to these infiltrations - which are appealing to some sides who seek to expand their role and to undermine others' roles and attempt to destroy the walls of the Arab decision - the phase between the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people and the beginning of the term of the US President Barack Obama who promised to open a new page for his people and the world - requires from the Arabs to fix their situation quickly in order to avoid further catastrophes.
At that point, Obama will not rescue them if the walls of the decision collapse, neither will Israel have mercy on the Palestinians and the Arabs, nor will the regional forces donate their power for the Arabs. Hasn't the time come for the disappointment of the bidders?
Instead of rushing to instigate and promote the winds of despair, let them remember the initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Shrines King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz at the Kuwait summit, that salvation is still possible for all the Arabs, only if they bear the responsibility of their decision. Otherwise, the alternative is only more havoc.
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Friday, 23 January 2009
Al-Hayat
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