A message to Congress: keep your money

After four grim years of mutual recriminations, the nationalist Fatah and Islamic Hamas have reached an auspicious agreement to end their differences. Israel is the loser if the Palestinians stay strong

The rift that has defined Palestinian politics for four years exhausted the Palestinian people, seriously weakened the traditionally strong fabric of Palestinian society, and nearly caused an irreversible implosion within the Palestinian community at home and in the Diaspora.
Above all, it made the prospects of peace in the region more remote than ever, if only because a divided nation divides its power, especially when facing an increasingly fascist Israel, searching for pretexts and red herrings in order to evade and circumvent peace.
Both Israelandits allies, includingIsrael'slapdog, the US Congress,opportunisticallymanipulated the Palestinian rift to to their political benefit.It was common to hear amongUS senators andcongressmen,"Let the Palestinians first have peace amongst themselves; peace with Israel will only come when the Palestinians learntolive inpeace with themselves."
Now, after painstakingly achieving the long-awaited reconciliationagreement between Fatah and Hamas, Israelisfretting,likea woman who has just received a bad divorce deal in court, threateningthe Palestinians with doomand reprisals, as if the Palestinians were supposedto perpetuate their internal differences for the convenience ofZionist thugs.
Congress didn't lag behind. Indeed, no sooner had Hamas and Fatah representatives announced their rapprochement in Cairo on Thursday, 28 April, than several Congressional figures warned that the US would stop financial aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Well, if American aid to the Palestinians is meant to help them help themselves, then this aid is welcomed and appreciated.However, if this aid is meant as a bribe money to encourage or entice Palestinians to sell their inalienable national rights, then we are sorry; we can't accept your money.
More to the point, if Congress insists that aid to the PA or to a prospective Palestinian national unity entity hedges on the resumption of inter-Palestinian strife, which I am sure would instill in Israel and her allies a lot of mirth, then we have no alternative but to look our American interlocutors in the eye and say, "Sorry friends! Take your money and shove it!"
There is no doubt that Israel has been taken by surprise by the reconciliation pact in Cairo, an auspicious feat that complements the great historical changes now takingplace in the Arab region.Avigdor Lieberman, who combines Stalin's ruthlessness and Hitler's nefariousness, was quoted as saying that Israel was preparing "an arsenal of reprisals against the Palestinians".
The more public relations savvy Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyah reiterated old stands that Israel wouldn't resume peace talks with a Hamas-Fatah government due to the participation of Hamas, as if the good tidings of peace were hovering over the Middle East prior to the reconciliation agreement.
Netanyahu, a real thug, once again invoked the terror issue, ignoring the cardinal fact that Israel is the ultimate expression and embodiment of terror in our time.Netanyahu invoked the fact that Hamas didn't recognise Israel. Well, does Israel recognise Palestine? Does amorphous Israel have fixed borders?
Hamas will never ever recognise such a state, which was born in terror and genocide. Likewise, Congress along with happy-go-lucky Hillary Clinton is re-invoking the so-called Quartet conditions for talking to Hamas. This anachronistic "Nay-set" includes: abandoning armed resistance, recognising Israel, and accepting previous agreements between the PA and Israel.
These impossible and blackmailing conditions are illogical and preposterous.
First, Hamas has been serious and sincere about observing the tahdia, or calm, in the Gaza Strip, often in the face of Israel's murderous provocations. However, rather than meeting appreciation and praise from Washington, as well as hard opposition from some other Palestinian factions,Hamas only received malice and vilification from the US.
As to negotiations with Israel, it is well known that Hamas, which is not part of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), never took part in these futile negotiations. Hence, the resumption of whatever negotiations wouldn't hedge on Hamas's approval.
Finally, asking Hamas to accept previous agreements between Israel and the PLO is ridiculous, since nearly all these agreements, including the infamous Oslo Accords, are essentially vague, so much so, that even Israel and the PLO themselves don't agree on a common understandingof these agreements.
Finally, some advice to the PLO and its leadership. Don't be obsequious or complacent vis-à-vis Israel or any of its obedient dogs. These entities have not one iota of morality or honesty, let alone justice, in their general outlook. They are willing to blackmail us to the last drop of our blood. They would embark on the unthinkable to keep us in a state of enslavement to Zionism.
Hence, you should be able to seriously threaten the Zionist regime, to dismantle the whole autonomous regime once and for all. Of course, any vestige of "security coordination" — which is shameful to the Palestinian conscience—must be terminated.
Don't display weakness or cowardice or indecisiveness. Our destiny as a people is not to be perennially enslaved by those racist thugs from Eastern Europe who want to build their glory at our expense.