A
Message To Congress: Take Your Money And Shove It - An
Advice To The PA
05 May 2011By Khalid Amayreh
After four grim years of mutual recriminations, cold
war and deep mistrust, the two main Palestinian
political camps, the nationalist Fatah and Islamic
Hamas, reached an auspicious agreement to end their
differences.
The four-year rift exhausted the Palestinian people,
seriously weakened the traditionally-strong fabric of
the Palestinian society, and nearly caused an
irreversible implosion within the Palestinian
community at home and in the Diaspora.
And, above all, it made the prospects of peace in the
region as remote as ever if only because a divided
nation can't get its acts together, especially when an
increasingly fascist Israel, which always searches for
pretexts and red herrings in order to evade and
circumvent peace, sought to utilize the
inter-Palestinian front to evade real peace and keep
up building peace-killing settlements for fanatical
Jews.
Needless to say, many if not most of these so-called
settlers, are taught a morbid, venomous ideology which
inculcates in them a certain belief that the whole
universe was created solely for them and that non-Jews
were created by the Almighty solely to serve Jews.
Interestingly, both Israel and its allies, including
Israel's obedient dog, which is US Congress, have
rather vehemently and opportunistically, even
obscenely manipulated the Palestinian rift to throw
the proverbial propaganda ball into the Palestinian
and Arab courts. Hence, one would be affronted when
hearing ostensibly respectable US senators and
congressmen remark gloatingly, saying "Let the
Palestinians first have peace amongst themselves;
peace with Israel will only come when the Palestinians
learn to live in peace with themselves."
Similarly, opportunistic Israel raved and ranted on
every conceivable occasion, claiming that the
Palestinian division, not Israel's "lebensraum" policy
in the West Bank, especially in East Jerusalem, was
impeding peace since the Palestinians didn't have a
unified leadership.
Now, after painstakingly achieving the long-awaited
reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas,
Israel is fretting, like a woman who has just received
a bad divorce deal in court, threatening the
Palestinians with doom and reprisals, as if the
Palestinians were supposed to perpetuate their
internal difference for ever and ever for the sake of
despicable Zionist thugs, many of whom originated in
Eastern Europe and Russia and who brought with them a
genocidal ideology along with every form of racism,
fascism and jingoism to the Holy land.
And, unsurprisingly, Congress didn't lag behind.
Indeed, no sooner than Hamas and Fatah representatives
had announced their rapprochement in Cairo on
Thursday, 28 April, than several Congressional figures
warned that the US would stop financial aid to the
Palestinian Authority.
Well, if American aid to the Palestinians is meant to
help them help themselves (the US, the Palestinian's
ultimate tormentor and Israel's guardian-ally,
enabler, guarantor, and sustainer of Israeli insolence
and territorial aggrandizement), then this aid is
welcomed and appreciated and all of us Palestinians
will have a standing ovation in America's honor and
solemnly say "thanks America for your most altruistic
help."
However, if this aid is meant as bribe money to
encourage or entice Palestinians or certain
Palestinian elements to sell off their people
inalienable national rights, then, we are sorry; we
can't accept your money.
More to the point, if Congress insists that aid to the
PA or to a prospective Palestinian national unity
entity hedges on the resumption of inter-Palestinian
strife, which I am sure would instill in Israel and
her allies a lot of mirth, glee and gloat, then we
have no alternatives but to look our American
interlocutors in the eye and say, "Sorry friends! Take
your money and shove it."
There is no doubt that Israel has been taken by
surprise by the reconciliation pact in Cairo, an
auspicious feat that complements the great historic
changes now taking place in the Arab region.
Avigdor Lieberman, who combines Stalin's ruthlessness
and Hitler's nefariousness, along with characteristic
Zionist depravity, was quoted as saying that Israel
was preparing "an arsenal of reprisals against the
Palestinians."
The more public relations savvy Prime Minister
Benyamin Netanyahu reiterated old stands that Israel
wouldn't resume peace talks with a Hamas-Fatah
government due to the participation of Hamas, as if
the good tidings of peace were hovering over the
Middle East prior to the reconciliation agreement.
Netanyahu, a real thug, with a neck tie and an amazing
ability to fornicate with language to change and
distort the truth, once again invoked the terror
issue, ignoring the clarion and cardinal fact that
Nazi-like Israel is the ultimate expression,
embodiment of terror in our time.
Netanyahu invoked the fact that Hamas didn't recognize
Israel. Well, does Israel recognize Palestine? Does
amorphous Israel have fixed borders? Hamas will never
ever recognize such a state, which was born in terror
and genocide and mendacity.
Likewise, Congress along with happy-go-lucky Hillary
Clinton is re-invoking the so-called Quartet
conditions for talking to Hamas. These anachronistic
"Nay-set" includes, abandoning armed resistance,
recognizing Israel, and accepting previous agreements
between the PA and Israel.
Well, these impossible blackmailing conditions are
illogical and preposterous to say the least.
First, Hamas has been serious and sincere about
observing the tahdia or calm in the Gaza Strip, often
in the face of Israel's murderous provocations.
However, rather than meeting appreciation and praise
from Washington as well as hard opposition from some
other Palestinian factions, Hamas only received malice
and vilification from the U.S., which only underscores
America's pornographic subservience to Israel and her
wantonly hegemonistic Jewish lobby.
As to negotiations with Israel, it is well known that
Hamas, which is not part of the PLO, never took part
in these futile negotiations. Hence, the resumption of
whatever negotiations wouldn't hedge on Hamas'
approval.
Finally, asking Hamas to accept previous agreements
between Israel and the PLO is really ridiculous since
nearly all these agreements, including the scandalous
Oslo Accords, are essentially vague so much so that
even Israel and the PLO themselves don't agree on a
common understanding of these agreements.
An advice to the PA
Finally, an advice to the PLO and its leadership:
Don't be obsequious or complacent vis-à-vis Israel or
any of its obedient dogs. These people have no iota of
morality or honesty, let alone justice in their moral
set of ideals. They are willing to blackmail us to the
last drop of our blood. They would embark on the
unthinkable to keep us in a state of enslavement to
Zionism.
Hence, you should be able to seriously threaten the
Zionist regime to dismantle the whole autonomous
regime once and for all; in addition, of course, to
terminating irreversibly any vestige of "security
coordination" a revolting and repulsive factor in
inter-Palestinian discordance.
Don't display weakness or cowardice or indecisiveness.
Our destiny as a people is not to be perennially
enslaved by those racist thugs from Eastern Europe who
want to build their glory at our expense.
K. Amayreh is an American-educated journalist living
in occupied Palestine. His email address is: amayreh@p-ol.com
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