In his last interview, President Bush said that the building of settlements must stop because it may affect on the way negotiations go between Israel and the Palestinians. Olmert says that he will do what he promised in Annapolis but in the reality what is happening is different than the promises. Every day settlers try to put new moving houses at the mountains of the West Bank, they say it’s their right to live in each centimeter of this land. On the other side, the Palestinian leadership in Ramala is doing their best to prove that they are fighting terror, crime, and also bring security to the Palestinians. The fact is that they are not succeeding in bringing security and cant even control and earn the right to take the roll and charge of bringing security, simply the reason is that still the Israeli security forces are working by their own self and do everything needed to assault and capture any Palestinian active people in the West Bank without even informing the Palestinian authorities. Actually even the negotiations are not taking a serious schedule, almost all the negotiations are stopped because of the settlements. The real change that is happening in the lines of the Palestinian Authorities and is not noticed until now, is the change in the identity of the politicians that are working as Ministers of Salam Fayyad’s government; they are all independent and non of them is related to any political party, even they are not related to Fatah, but what joins them all is their strong relation with the United States of America. This form makes it clear that the states and Israel are not interested even in any Fatah politicians, but this could be dangerous because soon the Fatah Base will realize this and won’t let it go easily.Again the same mistake is being done, the situation is “silence” in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and they are all working slowly to achieve anything without realizing that this could lead to an other explosion in the area because of the non seen steps that should have been done a long time ago to make the people feel again that still there is a chance to make something. What we are afraid of is an other change in the attitude and a surprising act done by the people that could destroy anything done until now because they are still living in the worse measures that affect their way of belief.

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad

A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is a former President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.

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