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2021-05-09 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Wasted chances for Palestinians
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[AlAhram] The decision of Chair of the Paleostinian Authority the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
to postpone the Paleostinian elections has caused consternation and dismay in Paleostine and the region.
| The US reaction to the decision by Abbas has been quite muted and has reflected the low priority the Biden administration gives to the Palestinian question, and, for that matter, to the peace process in the Middle East. |
On 16 January, Chair of the Paleostinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential decree calling for general and presidential elections in the Occupied West Bank, Gazoo
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...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, and East Jerusalem on 22 May and 31 July this year, respectively.
According to the same decree, Paleostinians everywhere, in the Diaspora as well as in the whole of Paleostine, were to elect their representatives to the 700-member Paleostinian National Council (PNC) a month after the holding of the presidential elections.
The call for the elections was warmly received worldwide and among the Paleostinians. The only dissenting voice among Paleostinian organizations was that of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP).
Egypt, for its part, took the decree very seriously, hoping that these elections, once held, would assist in ending the eight-year division between the PA and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,. Furthermore, they would pave the way for a peaceful and democratic transfer of power, badly needed in the PA, and make room for younger leaders to emerge and hold the reins of power in a changing world and regional landscape.
Cairo hosted two rounds of talks under the heading of the Paleostinian National Dialogue, one in February and the second in March this year. The purpose was to make sure that all Paleostinian organizations and the PA agreed on the modalities and conditions for holding the decreed elections.
Judging from the results of the two rounds, we can safely say that all was set for opening a new chapter in Paleostinian politics after the elections and the election of a national-unity government that would have led to reinvigorated political legitimacy capable of meeting the demands of new realities on the ground. If there was agreement on one thing, it was on the recognition that the present Paleostinian leadership and a divided Paleostine, torn between the Occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, are no longer tenable. This status quo must change in the best interests of the Paleostinians.
But to the dismay of Paleostinians, Arabs and the world on the lam, the chair of the PA announced on 29 April that he had decided to postpone the elections, sine die, on the pretext that the Israeli government had not allowed elections in East Jerusalem.
The decision was received with consternation and opposition from all Paleostinian organizations. Hamas expressed its regret and called the decision a betrayal of the agreements already sealed to hold the elections and form a national-unity government. It added that both the PA and Fatah, the largest Paleostinian political organization, would be held responsible for any adverse consequences that could take place because of the postponement of the elections. It went on to say that it was inadmissible that the destiny of the Paleostinians and what it termed "the popular consensus" should be held hostage to "the agenda" of a particular Paleostinian faction, meaning Fatah.
Egypt, at the time this article was written, that is to say 48 hours after the postponement decision, had not reacted officially to the news. Frustration with the PA and its chairman would be an understatement, however. Cairo had been looking forward to the elections and their results as a turning point in Paleostinian politics that could lead to an elected Paleostinian government that would embody a new popular and political legitimacy capable of speaking on behalf and in the name of all of Paleostine, a sine qua non in dealing with a new US administration that has expressed its support for the two-state solution after a four-year hiatus in which the previous administration of former president Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
almost scuttled the idea altogether.
Egypt believes that the time has come for a renewal of Paleostinian politics and of the Paleostinian national leadership. The trust and confidence in the present one and in other leaders of various Paleostinian organizations have almost withered away. To host other rounds of the Paleostinian National Dialogue would be an exercise in futility, to say the least.
The current Paleostinian leadership has wasted the chance to allow for the emergence of younger Paleostinian leaders that will be more capable and more effective in addressing the world and in dealing with a new set of Israeli leaders in the post-Netanyahu era. Theirs should be a leadership of the future and not a leadership anchored in the past.
The reason for postponing the elections is that there are new realities on the ground in Paleostine that the PA refuses to admit or acknowledge. The consensus among Paleostinian observers is that Fatah was not assured of coming out the winner. With three competing electoral lists, the chances were that Hamas could carry a majority of the votes across all of Paleostine. Paleostinian voters were divided among three Fatah electoral lists, Fatah proper, the Future list led by Nasser al-Kidwa, a close relative of the late Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat and the Independence list led by the dissident Mohammed Dahlan.
Postponing the elections will not change this equation. On the contrary, if Abbas has any moral authority left, he has probably squandered it with his regrettable decision. Even his legacy within the Paleostinian National Movement has been tarnished.
The US reaction to the decision by Abbas has been quite muted and has reflected the low priority the Biden administration gives to the Paleostinian question, and, for that matter, to the grinding of the peace processor in the Middle East.
| At least that much they have right. |
Jalina Porter, principal deputy spokesperson of the US State Department, had this to say in her press briefing on 30 April: "Obviously, the exercise of democratic elections matter for the Paleostinian people, and it is a matter for them to determine their leadership as well."
"We also encourage all parties to remain calm in the process."
As for European reactions, four governments, those of La Belle France, Italia, Spain and Germany, released a joint statement regretting the postponement of the Paleostinian elections, and there was a separate statement by the British government. The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
expressed its regret at the decision announced by Abbas. EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell released a statement calling on all the parties to agree on a new date for holding the elections and requesting the Israeli government to allow Paleostinians in East Jerusalem to participate in them.
He added that the European Union has always stressed its support for "credible, comprehensive and transparent elections" in Paleostine.
The statement emphasised the fact that the EU believes that it is necessary for the Paleostinians to develop strong democratic institutions that are accountable and are based on the respect for human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
on the way towards the two-state solution. I could not agree more. It called on all Paleostinian parties to resume "efforts" to build on the "successful talks" among various Paleostinian organizations and fix a new date for Paleostinian elections "without delay."
This would be questionable, at least in the short term. Resuming talks under present circumstances would lack credibility.
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