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Palestinian hatred for President Trump and his administration does not come as
a surprise, what is strange is that the two Palestinians
factions -- Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip -- are now using
the US president's awaited plan to throw mud at one another.
§ Mahmoud
Abbas evidently wants the world to believe that Hamas is working for Trump and
Israel. Hamas, for its part, wants Palestinians to believe that if anyone is
part of the Trump administration's "conspiracy," it is Abbas and his
Fatah faction.
§ Guess
who gets caught in the crossfire -- again. The Palestinians. It is they who
continue to pay the price for the vicious strife between their
"leaders" -- in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
No Palestinian -- or anyone else for that matter -- has
been made privy to US President Donald J. Trump's long-awaited plan for peace
in the Middle East, which has also been referred to as the "deal of the
century." This minor detail however, has not prevented the Palestinians
from rejecting the rumored plan, on the pretext that it is aimed at
"liquidating" the Palestinian cause and national rights.
Hardly a day passes without Palestinian leaders and
officials across the political spectrum behaving as
if they know every detail of the "deal of the century." The
Palestinians are not even prepared to wait until the US administration actually
presents a plan.
The Palestinian rejection of a yet-to-be-announced
peace plan should not surprise anyone. The Palestinians will never accept any
plan from a US administration they consider extremely "hostile" to
the Palestinians and "biased" in favor of Israel.
Even before Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital in December 2017, the Palestinians had made up their minds: As
Trump administration is on the side of Israel, and its policies seem mainly
designed to appease and strengthen Israel, the Palestinians apparently decided
that they should boycott the US administration. This boycott is unlikely to end
in the foreseeable future, especially in light of continued Palestinian denunciations of the US administration and
its policies towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Palestinians, it appears, have become hostage to
their own vitriolic rhetoric. It is hard to see how after nearly a year of
attacks on the Trump administration, any Palestinian leader would be able to
accept the proposed "deal of the century," no matter what is in it,
or to have any dealings with US officials. The massive anti-US campaign that
the Palestinian leaders have been waging for the past few months in the media
and every available platform has made it impossible, if not dangerous, for any
Palestinian leader to do business with the Trump administration.
The two rival Palestinian parties have been at each
other's throats for many years and are still engaged in a power struggle. Hamas
and Fatah hate each other so much that they are even prepared to accuse each
other of "collaborating with the enemies," America and Israel.
President Trump is most likely unaware that he has
secret Palestinian "agents" working for him in Fatah and Hamas. This
is only true, of course, if one is to take seriously the mutual accusations
made by Fatah and Hamas.
Welcome to the Palestinians' Theater of the Absurd,
where fabrication, lies and conspiracy theories have long been part of the
fabric of Palestinian culture and society.
According to a statement issued
by Fatah in Ramallah, the (unseen) "deal of the century" requires
Palestinians to "give up Jerusalem and the right of return and the right
for compensation for Palestinian refugees." Trump's plan, according to
Fatah's imagination, also envisages separating the West Bank from the Gaza Strip
"to prevent the establishment of an independent and sovereign state, on
the pre-1967 armistice lines, with Jerusalem as its capital."
No one knows on what basis Fatah is making these claims
about a plan that does not yet even exist. Perhaps these allegations can be
traced to unconfirmed reports in various Arab and Western media outlets.
Evidently, the Palestinians have taken these speculations as facts and have
built entire arguments around them.
In the West Bank, the PLO Executive Committee, another
Ramallah-based Palestinian body dominated by Abbas loyalists, echoed the
same charge against Hamas. After a meeting on October 11, the committee
"affirmed its rejection of the plan to separate the Gaza Strip from the
West Bank" as part of the "deal of the century." Again, this is
an accusation by Abbas and his officials that is aimed at convincing
Palestinians that Hamas is involved in a conspiracy against them and their
rights. Abbas evidently wants the world to believe that Hamas is working for
Trump and Israel.
Hamas, for its part, wants Palestinians to believe that if anyone is part of
the Trump administration's "conspiracy," it is Abbas and his Fatah
faction. Hamas's message to the Palestinians basically boils down to this:
"We're not the traitors working with Israel and Trump. The real traitors
are Abbas and his Fatah, who are imposing economic sanctions on the Gaza Strip
and obstructing efforts to improve the living conditions of the
Palestinians."
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