The scandal of the surrender in open country of Mahmoud Abbas as the Goldstone causes a deep crisis. After my post yesterday (translation of a ticket for Electronic Ali), it seems interesting that you comment further on this matter.
In particular, ticket Saree Makdisi remarkable offers three possible explanations:
Corruption, incompetence, collaboration: Oh, The Agony of Choice.
As he says simply, treason is serious
can hardly wait other states to resist U.S. pressure and support a resolution in support of Palestinian rights that the Palestinian delegation itself renounces support - why Venezuela, Nigeria and Pakistan should be more Palestinian than the Palestinians?
Regarding the corruption of the Palestinian Authority, Saree Makdisi essentially repeats information already present in the ticket of Electronic Intifada I translated here yesterday: the direct involvement of the clique Abbas in a telephone company funded by Gulf businessmen and blackmail Israel to "liberate" frequency band for the launch of the network telephone.
I would like to make an aside.
The issue of corruption in Palestine has always seemed problematic: it is a topic typically operated by the Israelis to delegitimize their interlocutors and to pretend they have no "partner" to negotiate (in so, obviously, the economy of their own corruption problems). Wholesale: Arafat is corrupt, it can not negotiate with him, the resistance organizations, they are "Islamic", "anti-Semitic," "terrorists" we can not negotiate with them. Comfortable situation for those who do not seek peace ("we have no partner for peace »...).
importantly, can anyone seriously surprised by the existence of corruption in Palestine? Sixty years of occupation, the issues of permanent power (since in a non-state power obviously can not be purely democratic legitimacy, but only be the result of issues, negotiations, to "balance" diplomatic , history of armed struggle ... to the point that where democratic legitimacy is finally emerging after the elections, it is immediately drowned under the bombs and blockade), the constant need to lubricate the legs (in occupied Palestine and abroad), attendance continues to pharmacies using security themselves to corruption, the long association of Lebanese system (hey hey), the need to finance a gaggle of occult stuff (weapons, communications), the obligation also to establish structures for occult does not serve as a target for Israeli actions, legal money poured into a non-state structures without control or power-cons, and the secret financing from all those involved in Palestine to further their interests or their idea of "peace" (the "Quartet", Israel, Gulf countries, etc..). The Israeli political system, which presents itself as a modern democracy with the powers-cons, is totally botched by corruption. How imagine that Palestine, which has no characteristics of a State, to escape corruption? Corruption, in this situation seems both inevitable and, in part, indispensable.
short, the system Arafat has always been corrupt and has always made use of corruption. But the problem is that is very difficult to use this single argument for denying its legitimacy. There are many other aspects to criticize Arafat era, but the problem of corruption seems naive and (too) easily used by the Israelis refuse to negotiate.
However, with Abbas and the "young guard" symbolized by Dahlan, it is not impossible to consider that corruption became the sole engine of the Palestinian Authority, the central aspect explaining the other two Saree Makdisi points made by the incompetence and collaboration.
The second explanation possible, according to Makdisi, is incompetence.
One explanation is simply incompetent: Abbas and his associates lack so much intelligence, imagination and political skills they have simply missed the whole thing. This is certainly not out of the question: Abbas himself is a man extraordinarily bland and deeply compromised, and his inner circle - including men like Muhammad Dahlan and Saeb Ereikat - inspires even less confidence that Abbas himself . Apart from their deep disdain for Palestinian suffering in Gaza (redress such suffering should be their top priority), it should be clear that a participant in negotiations that voluntarily throw out the window a rare trump card while trying (or pretending) to negotiate is, to put it mildly, not qualified to negotiate from the outset let alone claim to be "lead" a rebellious people like the Palestinians and undefeated. If the direction of Ramallah is also hopelessly incompetent in this scenario is reason enough to withdraw their mandate, if not to dissolve the Palestinian Authority itself. (It is difficult, however, to "withdraw its mandate" to someone like Abbas, who has in any way pas de «mandat» [...].)
L'option de l'incompétence est celle soutenue par Rami G. Khoury dans un billet du Daily Star :
The total emptiness in the Palestinian presidential chair is a problem that has a solution; in one move Abbas can help rebuild the credibility of the Palestinian presidency while simultaneously strengthening overall Palestinian national unity and political cohesion.
He should simply call early elections for the Palestine Authority presidency, not stand as a candidate, and instead devote time to using his other position as head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee to achieve A Critical Need absent from Palestinian life for decades: Namely, building a national consensus by Giving Voice to all groups of Palestinians and Especially to Refugees living in camps Throughout The Middle East.
But the most interesting article by Saree Makdisi, in my opinion, his third option: it explains why and how the Palestinian Authority itself, and how this authority has only one function: collaboration.
Another possibility - which I find more plausible - is that Abbas, the Palestinian Authority and PLO essentially dead are not (and never been at least since the death of Yasser Arafat) interested in genuine negotiations with Israel that could lead to the creation of a genuine Palestinian state in the occupied territories. After all, a major criticism of the Oslo accords of 1993-1995 who gave birth to the Palestinian Authority is that, far from putting an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, they have mostly served to transfer the load and the daily cost that represents the occupation in newly founded PA, while allowing Israel to continue to demolish Palestinian homes, to expropriate Palestinian land and building Jewish settlements in the occupied territories in contravention of international law. Oslo formally divided into three parts the Palestinian territory Israel has occupied since 1967 (Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem), separated from each other and the outside world and, moreover, has divided the West Bank itself into three zones A, B and C. Only in Zone A (approximately 18% of total) that the PA has any real presence on the ground, and in Zone C (60% of the West), the PA has no role nor any presence - and that is that Israel has spent (and still is) to demolish, construct and expropriate. Oslo and the Palestinian Authority, in other words, far from putting an end to occupation and lay the groundwork for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, actually enabled Israel to consolidate its occupation and strengthen its hold on Palestinian land. That is exactly why the population of Jewish settlers in West Bank and East Jerusalem doubled during the Oslo era and continued to increase since then - until the current half a million people.
As recent experience amply demonstrates, the PA serves Israel facilitating the occupation - something Israel was originally coined in the same way that, historically, the colonial powers have always tried to create or exploit local elites to help them manage a large population : an approach nicely summarized by Macaulay in his Minute on Indian Education 1835 ("We must now do our best to form a class who acted as interpreter between us and the millions we govern, a class of individuals, Indian in blood and color but English in taste, opinion, morals and intellect "). Why would she want the Palestinian Authority the end of a system it has? As the French intellectual Régis Debray points out, the status quo elites foune PA in Ramallah "a lifestyle, status, dignity and purpose, and probably (for example, if all rumors on the mobile phone contract proved) more through fees incurred.
Even if we wanted to give the Palestinian Authority, Abbas and his associates the benefit of the doubt and say they are truly the best interest of their people at the center of their concerns, it remains in all cases that the Authority, even in the most optimistic scenario, can not claim to represent a minority of the Palestinian people, since only a minority of Palestinians living in the occupied territories: the majority live either in exile them was imposed by force in the creation of Israel in 1948, or (in the case of those Palestinians who survived the ethnic cleansing of that year and stayed home) as second class citizens in a state that is Jewish and who would systematically discriminate because they are not Jewish.
is a point particularly interesting and important in that it questions the very existence of the Palestinian Authority, set up only to allow Israel to get rid of the management of a minority of the occupied Palestinians (who Ramallah, in practice , managing only a tiny minority of the Palestinian people). In fact, the very purpose of the Palestinian Authority is to be a collaborative structure, "in which case it is no less than the collaborationist" government "of Vichy in occupied France by the Nazis in the 1940s."
As stated Yves Gonzalez-Quijano in his short day ticket, another rumor, fueled by the Israeli daily Maariv, circulates. Reproduced by Palestinian media (although, for once, particularly the need to take conditional), we can not doubt it will have a significant impact), it also fuels the criticism of a "regime of collaboration "
The Palestinian press (http://www.arabs48.com) relays Arabic news" data "(?) by the Israeli daily Maariv that officials in Tel Aviv threaten Abu Mazen to make public a where video can be seen pleading with the latest energy to the Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, in favor of an intensification of the bombing on Gaza. It would - it emphasizes the conditional - the disclosure of these images from certain UN delegations which would have led the Palestinian position ...
Angry Arab, he sees already profile is an attempt to end the crisis (which, incidentally, would the logic of the ticket Daily Star): put all the blame on Abbas and be replaced by one of his closest aides (including Dahlan): It seems
that the United States and Israel are going up something: the expression the opposition to Abu Mazen (Abbas) by people such as Muhammad Dahlan and Nabil Amr could indicate a plan to get rid of Abu Mazen in order to save the team collaborationist Fatah. The Egyptian government has just announced a date for signing a treaty of reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas on Oct. 25. Hamas should be blamed for the rescue of Abu Mazen.
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