It's time to

Amidst decades of ongoing injustice and impunity, the imperative for accountability has never been more pressing. The entrenched power structures, supported by imperial and colonial forces, have perpetuated a cycle of oppression and exploitation, allowing the same actors to evade consequences for their actions. The normalisation of the settler-colonial Israeli regime, characterized by its apartheid policies and systematic violence against Palestinians, underscores the urgent need for accountability.

"Although the Anglo-French partition of the defeated Ottoman Empire in 1920 created several nominally independent Arab states, or what British imperial leaders described as an "Arab facade" to cover up the reality of British imperial rule, neither Britain nor its Arab rulers - referenced by historian Arnold Toynbee as the "Arab henchmen" of British colonialism - were able to avert growing hostility towards colonial Zionism in Palestine."

"At a basic level, Arabs collectively understood the existential threat posed by the creation of a modern, expansionist, western settler-colonial, ethno-religious, nationalist state in their midst."

"The new Palestinian Authority created by the Oslo Accords became an auxiliary of Israel's military control over the occupied West Bank and Gaza."

With this gesture, Arafat is wrongly confirming what Israeli propaganda struggles to appear.
Zionist State: Advocate of Judaism?

This gesture is as emblematic of the incompetence and ignorance of Palestinian leadership regarding their adversary, Israel.

The removal of the Torah scroll from the Yemenite Museum to an Israeli museum raises questions about the underlying motivations and implications of such an action.

However, the decision to transfer cultural artifacts from their place of origin to another country's museum is contentious, especially in the context of colonialism and cultural appropriation. 

Removing such artifacts from their original context deprives local communities of their cultural heritage and history, and should be seen as a form of cultural imperialism.

@ 17:36

Uri Savir used his first meeting with the Palestinians to stress three deal breaking Israeli conditions:

1. first no negotiations over Jerusalem or the return of refugees 

2. second no UN involvement or international arbitration and 

3. third that the public facing Washington talks continued in parallel with the secret negotiations 

The Palestinian delegation accepted all three!

@ 18:08

Joel singer contribution was to ask hundreds of questions to really understand what this would mean, how PLO would treat this, what would be them as a counterpart. I think they (Palestinians) felt it was quite offensive in one way to be interrogated like that.

@ 18:40

Mustafa Barghouthy (Palestinian Initiative in Occupied Territiries): "Some questions were traps, like whether the Palestinians would allow settlers in areas they administered. When it was agreed, the Israelis were euphoric because it allowed the Israeli settlements to continue."

Joel Singer wrote:
“I wasn’t surprised to get 100 answers to my 100 questions. But I was shocked not to get a single Palestinian question in return”.

Joel Singer to Perez:
“foreign minister if we don't make an immediate deal with these people we are complete complete idiots”

@ 19:42

Declaration of Principles document setting out the details of Palestinian autonomy.

It clearly stated:

1. Autonomy would not include the settlements, military zones, or Jerusalem.

2. Israel would remain in charge of security and the protection of settlers.

@ 33:41

Francis Boyle: “it was the same Declaration of Principles that they (Palestinians of First Intifada) rejected in Washington, it's a limited autonomy of the inhabitants without any control over the land”

@ 33:58

Haider Abdul Shafi (First Intifada) sent Boyles comments to Arafat but he never received a reply.

This is a mixture of previous self-rule agreements that the Palestinian leadership in the occupied territories always refused signing.

@ 38:21

What a strategic deal for Israel: 

1. we were accepted by the world

2. relations with Arab world moved dramatically

3. interest offices embassies Jordan, Sudan…

4. we were accepted by the Palestinians to all sorts of forms

5. huge investments came to Israel, mega companies; Intel Chinese Japanese everybody came

Oslo was meant only to help Israel consolidate its occupation and colonisation of Palestine.

The architects of Oslo were not interested in Palestinian statehood or liberation but rather wanted to find a way to get the Palestinian leadership to quietly agree to capitulation and suppress any further resistance at the grassroots.

With the backing of the international community and the Israeli regime, Arafat pursued governance based on patronage and corruption that had little tolerance for internal dissent.

Abbas has also been working hard to erode any democratic spaces in the West Bank. He has merged all three branches of government – the legislative, executive and judiciary – so that there are no checks on his power.

To maintain his grip on power, Abbas also wields an extensive security apparatus responsible for a monumental amount of human rights abuses, including the arrest of activists, the harassment of journalists and the torture of political detainees.

Has PA any legitimacy to represent Palestinians?

The Palestinian Authority (PA) was established following the secretive Oslo Deal. Its initial leaders, including Yasser Arafat, were not elected through a democratic process but rather emerged as representatives through secretive negotiations between Israel and the PLO.

The PA has held elections, although they have been sporadic and limited in scope. The most recent presidential election was held in 2005 when Mahmoud Abbas was elected to succeed Yasser Arafat. Legislative elections were last held in 2006, resulting in a victory for Hamas.

The PA's legitimacy as a representative body of the Palestinian people is undermined by the lack of regular, free, and fair elections. Additionally, there are concerns about corruption within the PA and its perceived inability to effectively address the needs and aspirations of the Palestinian population.

Decades of dysfunctional and corrupt Palestinian diplomacy

 interested to maintain status quo to preserve its privileges,
unable/disinterested to balance the active Zionist influential diplomacy

Failure of Armed Struggle

Armed conflict has proven to be too remote to achieve any significant success or minimal effectiveness.

Eroding the Palestinian Civil Society from Within Over the Last 30 Years

The Oslo dealers have dedicated their efforts to attacking Palestinian civil society, eradicating the achievements of the First Intifada.

Trojan Horse

The Oslo dealers, presented as insiders, were able to effectively dismantle any Palestinian political structures that withstood Israeli attempts.

Those who did not conform to the Oslo sellout and its settler-colonial project have been attacked by Oslo dealers both inside the Palestinian Occupied Territories and abroad through affiliated diplomacy.