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| Heads in the sand: Hamas head of PLC says coming back without issue while Abbas postpones Goldstone |
| 05.10.09 - 19:42 | |||
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Dweik ran on the Change and Reform ticket in the 2005-2006 Legislative elections, which landed him in Israeli prison along with 100 of his colleagues who were rounded-up for affiliation with the Hamas party. The head of the PLC was never able to properly assume his position as the United States, under the Bush administration, imposed a blockade on the Palestinians upon receipt of the election results that brought Hamas into power throughout the occupied territory. Without money coming in and funds frozen after the US openly threatened any banks that dealt with the Palestinians at that time, strikes ensued and it was quickly forgotten in the streets that it was not the fault of Hamas that an end to life as it was known under normal occupation was over. There was simply no money to be had. The Fateh party, and namely the Palestinian Authority, began a years-long conflict with Hamas, the government that still operates, to the chagrin of many, in the Gaza Strip only. The two parties are at such odds that reconciliation talks have been ongoing, and failing, for four years. The latest hope is the Egyptian paper, after Cairo and Sana’a, and Beirut. After talking through the issues for three years during the internal dialogue hosted by Cairo, the paper may have worked out the kinks which are primarily security, elections and power-sharing. But now we have President Abbas who has joined the US in an effective blockade of the Goldstone report that names the Israeli leadership, army and government at large as complicit in committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip as well as possible crimes against humanity. And then there is Dr. Dweik who has accused Fateh of reneging on the post-election agreement by saying, “I am ready to return smoothly and without problems. I now face the final stage, which was delayed a bit. But I will exercise my natural right without agreements.” Dweik maintains that it is his natural right to return to the position he was elected to, and requires no agreements for doing so from the Fateh party or the Palestinian Authority, or for that matter, from President Abbas who is now reaching a new nadir of shame with his dealing of the Goldstone report on Gaza. But anyone who knows why the PA and Abbas’ people attempted in earlier reconciliation talks to change the legal date of elections understands that a primary reason was that the PLC members from Hamas were being released from prison. And if things did not change, they could have back their positions. Dweik contended today that he was “keen to return smoothly and without problems.” At the same time the good doctor accused Arab and Palestinian parties of “disrupting the role of the Legislative Council through political hypocrisy in dealing with the results of the elections to circumvent democracy and the resulting outcomes.” Dr. Dweik spent three years in Israeli prison for being democratically elected on the ticket affiliated with Hamas. The Palestinian people spoke, and were squelched. It has been downhill since then and now the president is disrupting the Goldstone report. The United Nations, the Palestinian Authority and the United States are stalling to place the blame that has naturally come upon the Israelis for the attacks on Gaza that killed 1,400 Palestinians in just over three weeks. This was one of the bloodiest and most devastating attacks to date, and one that has not entirely ended as the blockade and siege are ongoing. However, President Abbas is accepting the US request to leave alone the findings for now, for political reasons. His presidency is being questioned in an official capacity for the first time in an independent commission. This is occurring at the same time that the assaults on Al Aqsa Mosque and East Jerusalem are worse than ever. Demonstrations were held in the Gaza Strip and West Bank today in protest of the PA’s decision to cave to US demands to postpone the vote in the UN to adopt the findings. This is beyond an assault on the victims of those weeks in late December 2008 and January 2009 when weeping and outrage were the local norm. It was three months ago now that Dweik was released from Israeli prison, but he has yet to attempt to resume his position, ostensibly due to the internal conflict. He says he is surprised he was not welcomed back, but if this is truly so, he was then living under a rock in the confines of Israeli prison, a place that remains one of the most politicized environs in historic Palestine. | |||
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