The Palestinians have been looking for a new democratic process since 2006, but each time they approached the election deadline, they faced more complex obstacles than before. Today, in the last moments of the dream of changing political figures, everything suddenly returned to the first, and the heat of the democratic process to restore the Palestinians’ confidence in their system of government remained in the heart.
This time, Quds (Jerusalem) is an excuse for a crisis, and the Palestinian Authority has used the situation in the city as a pretext to delay the elections. While other groups have a completely different view of the story; According to the international system, some believe that if they are to wait for the consent of the occupying Israeli regime to hold elections in Jerusalem, it is as if they have recognized the regime’s domination of the electoral process.
In fact, it is a retreat of the Palestinian side against the occupying regime and acceptance of its control over the internal affairs of Palestine. Why does the PA not try to hold elections in Jerusalem despite the actions of the Zionist regime; It acts as the Zionist regime in the occupied West Bank settlements, while according to the international community, the region is under the rule of the PA, but the occupying regime has built in the settlements without waiting for the PA’s permission. Holds elections in this part of Palestine.
According to this theory, 25 electoral lists have formed a coordination council in order to put pressure and emphasize the need to hold elections as soon as possible. At its first conference, the council stressed the need to try to prevent the PA from being monolithic about the timing of the elections. Of these, only one list supported Mahmoud Abbas’s decision.
Therefore, it is not at all acceptable for the four Israeli elections to be held despite the wide differences between all the parties of this regime, while the Palestinians – whose differences are much less than the differences of the Israeli parties – still can not hold one election despite 14 years. . Therefore, in the current situation, there is no choice but to put pressure on the people, resistance groups and civil society organizations, all of whom are unanimously opposed to the delay in the elections, especially since such a delay provides an opportunity to form a new leadership in line with Israeli and American standards. And provides their allies.
Thus this must be stopped and the people must be given the opportunity to elect their own representatives and Palestine to regain its unity against the Zionist regime. Especially since the current events in Jerusalem and south of Nablus and the murderous operations that take place in these areas, along with the resistance and stability of Gaza, all emphasize the fact that the Palestinian people consider armed confrontation and popular struggles as two manifestations of resistance. That goes hand in hand and complements each other.
Now is the time to build an integrated leadership based on resistance thinking. The citizens of Quds have proved that they can turn Quds into a battlefield against the Zionist regime, and if this regime wants to prevent the elections, they will turn Quds into a battlefield.
