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by Bassam Tawil
• July 2, 2015 at 5:00 am
- It was
Palestinian who hurt themselves: When Israelis were not able to hire
Palestinian workers, they simply turned to foreign workers,
prefabricated construction and other industrial innovations.
- If the
boycott of goods made in the settlements is successful, thousands,
if not tens of thousands of Palestinians will find themselves
unemployed, hungry, and ripe for radicalization.
- The world
will never give up its computing, medical, agricultural and start-up
products for us. The Israelis will continue to prosper. They have
already found other markets
- Mahmoud Abbas
is afraid of Hamas and afraid to enter the Gaza Strip. As a result
of rumors that Hamas was working privately to reach a cease-fire
agreement with Israel, Abbas is threatening to dissolve the national
unity government.
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Let's agree not to try to kill each other...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) shakes hands with
Hamas's leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, during negotiations in 2007 for
a short-lived unity government. (Image source: Palestinian Press
Office)
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We Palestinians continue to miss one opportunity after the other.
Now, we are about to miss yet another opportunity for peace.
The geographic and political reality of the Middle East does not
smile on the Palestinians. The countries that, until the Arab Spring,
exerted the most pressure on Israel to negotiate with us have become
weak. Some of them are disintegrating and others, in this world of
strange bedfellows, consider the Israelis partners in the struggle
against their common enemy, Iran.
Our Arab brothers now consider us a nuisance, marginal to their struggle
to survive in the face of the threats from the Ayatollahs' increasing
nuclear power in Iran and radical Islamists such as ISIS.
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