Palestinians: where to? [Archives:2006/942/Opinion]
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh
Despite the political and ideological differences emerged on the Palestinian arena for long years, the Palestinians, with all those differences, remained an embodiment of solidarity and steadfastness in the face of the invader who occupied their land and compelled many of them to flee their homeland.
That solidarity has been a matter of high appreciation by their Arab brethren and by all the honorable in the world. Nevertheless, an amount of deformation has recently begun to appear in the life of the Palestinians and their country, blemishing the image so established in the minds. That was made after a wave of abnormal differences falsely introduced at a time the country is still groaning under the colonization occupation. That development has made all their Arab brethren and the honorable in the world express fear that the ideal picture formed about the Palestinians would be marred and also the reputation of their courageous struggle throughout more than half a century.
Would it be possible that the Palestinian weapon could be targeting the Palestinian citizen? A question of this sort was rather impossible to be asked before this time and arousing it at the present time is unacceptable and unexpected because the ongoing battle dictates unity and turns the arms towards the enemy that usurped the land. The enemy is committing carnages against the legitimate owners of the land without being deterred for this grave act by any force, from inside or outside the country. Added to that is the collapse of the Arab front which resulted in the enemy's capability to infiltrate into some Arab capitals, which placed themselves in service of the new empire, namely, the United States of America.
The United States considers Israel as a forward military base used for dominating and controlling the region as well as remodeling it in accordance with the imperialist goals aimed at building the colonialist world.
The sons of the Arab nation in all Arab countries and the honorable in the world are still betting on the Palestinians wakefulness and their learning from the long experiences and the example of that wise old man story. An old wise man once summoned together his sons and asked each one to break his stick singly. All the sons managed to do that easily. Then he asked them to put all the sticks together and try to break them. There and then the sons failed to break them because the sticks were no longer single but composed one bundle. This is a piece of wisdom the Palestinians have to inevitable comprehend and believe in. this wisdom is not only good for them at this crucial circumstance, but rather useful for all the Arabs and for any people struggling for liberation and salvation from serfdom of occupation.
Hamas assumption of power via the free and honest elections is an exemplary start for peaceful transfer of power in a country suffering from occupation and killing. The duty makes it imperative on every Palestinian people to welcome and dedicate himself heart and soul for supporting this beginning that paves the way for assuming power by the way of polling boxes instead of by force and coups. Time is still available for the success of this experiment. It is the time for all of the Palestinian national action factions to protect the experiment and render support for it despite the existence of different subordinate points of views among them. If, God forbids, happened the contrary and the Palestinians began to indulge in fratricide, they will, by that act, not only achieve the enemy's goal but also rather be unanimous on committing the most dangerous suicidal operation in their history.
The Palestinians under the organization of Fatah are Palestinians strugglers and so are the Palestinians under Hamas. All of them are Palestinians struggling for one cause. Under no any circumstances, they should be disunited by political affiliations or let the quest for posts lead them to offend their long struggler.
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh is Yemen's prominent poet and intellectual. He is the director of the Yemeni Center for Studies.
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