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The Arab Spring and Palestine
Published in Almasry Alyoum on 08 - 07 - 2011

The people in the Middle East revolted for their dignity and their right to have better future after corrupted regimes failed to reform systems for better living. Ups and downs are the main characteristic of this spring. While success was somewhat the fate in Egypt and Tunis other parts still struggle and fight to go out of the dark tunnel.
Palestinians in the historical Palestine whether they are in West Bank and Gaza or the Arab Israelis in Israel showed no response to the phenomenon. Just Fattah faction and Hamas signed a reconciliation draft but the application of this agreement is another story.
Neither the Fattah regime in the West Bank or Hamas could solve the daily problems of the Palestinians. That means that both the strategies of negotiation and the confrontation failed to achieve the national aspiration of Palestinian people. The Arab Israelis are considered second degree citizens and discrimination against them is systematical. The dream of the Palestinian State is vanishing day after day.
When conflicts and fight erupted in Haifa between the Arab Israelis and the Ashkenazi Israelis last year the President of Israel Shimon Perez considered it the nightmare of his country and he did every effort to calm down the Arabs.
Tzipi Levini the former foreign minister and the leader of the opposition warned the government that European politicians and activists started to talk about the One-State solution. There are no signs that the Israeli government will give the Palestinians any of their rights. The US administration is interested in arranging the new Middle East order and the Palestinian cause will be second to the its interests in employing the Middle East in its global strategy to contain China.
The One-State solution is more practical and it gives the Palestinians equal rights that allow them to share in the unified government and plan for the future. At the same time it will consider the Palestinians of 1948 who left their country as eligible immigrants to return. Jerusalem will be unified and the capital of the new state.
It is strange the Egyptian Interior Ministry gave the Egyptian nationality to about five hundred Palestinians from Egyptian mothers. Palestinians should be given the nationality of any country to keep their cause. Palestinians from Egyptian mothers could have similar treatment of Egyptians in education and health and other services but not the nationality. They should know that whatsoever it is long but their country is in the historical Palestine and one day they should go there with their fathers.
The Palestinian leaders who mastered selling the Palestinian cause to regional forces will not provide the solution. The Palestinian youth can arrange for their revolution in the historical Palestine to go to the street asking for unifying the West Bank, Gaza and Israel in one democratic secular state in which apartheid policies will be criminalized. They have the facebook and mobile phones to do. They should transform the whole historical Palestine into their Tahrir Square. They should be willing to pay and to sacrifice for their freedom and they should not wait for others to fight or sacrifice instead of them. If others paid for them they will repay the debt. The Libyan revolutionaries will find peace in final arrangements that will be mainly written by NATO that aided them. Policy is not charity and the facebook is for free. It is the Palestinian youth that either retake their rights or stop talking about them.


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