Gaza disengagement…! By: Mohamed S. Kamel
Gaza disengagement…!
By: Mohamed S. Kamel*
Feb 2nd,
2008
The occupation force thought the so called “Gaza disengagement”
will make them irresponsible of the misery they created. Contrary to the
reality, they will remain legally responsible for the welfare of the 1.5
million Palestinians in Gaza, as well as their cousins in the west bank and the
1948 citizens.
International law considers Gaza Strip to be under
occupation even after every single settler and soldier left. The reason for
continued legal responsibility is mainly based on the fact that the occupation force
insists on sealing all of Gaza’s borders to the outside world and has prevented
the opening of a seaport or airport in Gaza for Palestinian use. In addition,
they continue to control Gaza's territorial water and airspace and its main
resources of water, fuel and electricity.
The fabricated problem between the Palestinian
authorities and the elected government divided the 22% of Palestine into East
(West Bank) and West (Gaza) territories reminding us of the miserable division
of India into tow states (India and Pakistan) that lead to the division of
Pakistan into Pakistan and Bangladesh fighting for Kashmir.
And that would be the very near future of the
remaining of Palestine and that was the plan in each step of the so called
peace process, from Madrid, Camp David, Oslo and now Annapolis.
The silence of the international community facing the
inhuman situation in the occupied land became intolerable for the people of
Gaza. Thus, they brought down the wall of Rafah, forcing the opening of the border
and the creation of the new reality on the ground.
No one was prepared for the new reality. Hundreds of
thousands of Gazans paraded into Sinai in search of food, cigarettes, medical
supplies…etc. The Egyptian government was taken by surprise and was not able to
re-act facing the Palestinians’ sufferance.
For the occupation forces, the opening of the Rafah
border without any supervision or monitoring was described by some experts as
the doomsday scenario, but it goes with the renewal of the old plan in two
directions.
First, there would be the official separation of Gaza. As per the writer Amira Hass said that the Palestine authorities
concern for the collapse of the Rafah wall will provide the occupation forces
with an additional excuse to finalize the separation of Gaza from the West
Bank. There is nothing new in this tendency. The siege of Gaza has been
developing gradually and persistently since 1991, and intensified during the
Oslo years.
Secondly, would be the transfer
plan. As per the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi
Yona Metzger call for Gazans to be transferred to the Sinai Peninsula, to a
Palestinian state which he said could be constructed for them in the
desert. In an interview with the British
weekly, The Jewish News, the chief rabbi also said that while peaceable Muslims
should be allowed to pray in Jerusalem mosques, they should recognize that
Jerusalem belongs to the Jew. He called for Britain, the European Union and the United States
to assist in the construction of a Palestinian state in Egypt's Sinai Desert.
On the other hand, Daniel Pipe’s defeat theory, were the New York writers insists that peace will come to the Middle-East only when Arab believe that they have been defeated and become fully convinced of their defeat. Until that day, he believes that “we have to keep hammering them…” , the main problem that facing Mr. Pipe’s theory is that while he thought that he was making history, he is not even able to read history.
On the other hand, Daniel Pipe’s defeat theory, were the New York writers insists that peace will come to the Middle-East only when Arab believe that they have been defeated and become fully convinced of their defeat. Until that day, he believes that “we have to keep hammering them…” , the main problem that facing Mr. Pipe’s theory is that while he thought that he was making history, he is not even able to read history.
Gaza’s story is neither the story of Rabbi Yona’s fantasy nor Daniel
Pipe’s ignorance of Arabs and Muslims. Gaza is a story of strength because of its
people’s capacity to live throughout this misery and to fight the injustice forced
on them from everywhere.
Gaza is not an isolated story, Gaza,
as well as every district in the region, carry the story of Palestine and the
Palestinian people, a story of a nation that did not and will not be broken by
the brutality of its occupier or by the weakness of their brothers.
* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a
Freelance writer, the editor of I.N. Daily http://indaily.net/
and the President of the Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), could be
reached at info@apm-ram.org
posted by Mohamed S Kamel @ 10:13 PM
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