The Unfinished Change in the Palestinian Community

It is hard to determine whether the Palestinian community and political parties are ready to change from a national authority to a Palestinian state. The basis of the Palestinian community started on the belief of liberating the occupied land from the enemy. This started when the Palestinian Liberation Organization was established and joined all the “Brothers” that wanted to fight the enemy and free the land. Even after Oslo and establishing the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza, still no change did happen to the Palestinian movements. They all stayed as movements and did not change to Political Parties although they participate in what is called the Palestinian parliament. There are a lot of reasons that caused this, for an example the occupation still exists and this was an excuse for the movements to keep on working on their programs that included holding weapons and fighting. It is like if the community is paused in the level between the liberation and armed work, and the birth of a new state that until now no one did succeed in bringing it to the people. It is really hard to find out who to blame for this because neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians did give a chance for this state to come out to the world. The Israelis kept on occupying or reoccupying the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza showing that no one in the Palestinian Authorities did have the authority on these lands. The Palestinian Politicians that brought Oslo and established the Palestinian Authorities almost stole all the money that was supposed to be used for establishing this state. From the Other side, the Palestinian movements didn’t have the enough knowledge and experience to change their selves to political parties that really participate in building the Palestinian State. Even now all the attempts to establish the Palestinian State won’t succeed because it does not include all the Palestinian movements. It only include a part of them and this will cause the damage in the future to the will be incomplete State. The reason that these movements cannot change in a day to political parties is its basics and programs that were built only for the liberation and are useless for the building of a state, A state that needs a lot. I mean if we want to define a state, it is a land that has boarders, a government that rules ( which can never be done with the continuous Israeli activities in the Palestinian lands), a people with a nationality, and an acknowledgement from other states in the world, specially the known states that has power over the world like the United States. And this could be a reason for preventing this State from being created; the United States wants a Palestinian State that is established according to the American and Israeli instructions and also works upon its instructions, which means in other words a perfect State that can prevent any attacks on Israel from the beginning, and this is impossible with all the difficulties that exist in the Palestinian community. A history of almost sixty years showed that it is hard to change the basic beliefs and understandings of the Palestinians and even another fifty years won’t change anything, because this system of belief didn’t come from the air and was not taught by a system that used to rule this people. This system of Beliefs was created by the people their selves and can be changed by the people their selves once they can feel a change and a real opportunity for peace for them and their neighbors, so I suggest that what these great powers should do is to convince the people that they really want peace and an independent State that includes at least the basics of their system of beliefs and not a state that is built according to what only Israel wants. War and violence wont bring anything, occupying Gaza again and ending Hamas with force cant do anything because again another movement will come out that believes in more extreme ideas than Hamas, and also believing that Security can be brought only with force can do nothing. What we need to do is to reach this system of Belief that the both peoples have, the Israeli and the Palestinian and try to change it not by money or force but with proofs that peace can be accomplished while the interests of the both sides are kept and given.

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