Resignation of the cabinet of the Palestinian Authority; America’s plan to govern Gaza after the war

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, on Monday, February 26, 2024 (March 7, 1402), “Mohammed Ashtiyeh”, the head of the cabinet of the Palestinian Authority, along with all the cabinet members, resigned from their positions. The resignation of “Mohammed Ashtiyeh” – whom western media refers to as the Prime Minister of Palestine – means the dissolution of the self-proclaimed “Abu Mazen” cabinet in the West Bank. The cabinet that was formed outside the framework of the Palestinian constitution and without elections, by the order of “Abumazen”, by “Mohammed Ashtiyeh” in March 2019.

Illegal government of “Abu Mazen”

The government that “Mohammed Ashtiyeh” was appointed by the order of “Abu Mazen” on March 10, 2019, replaced the government of the Palestinian national unity that “Rami Hamdallah” was established in 2014 and remained in place until 2019. Rami Hamdallah was assigned to form a cabinet that was the result of the agreement of all Palestinian groups in the Palestinian national reconciliation meetings in 2013 and 2014. In 2019, due to the pressure put on the Rami Hamdallah government, he resigned and the Palestinian National Accord cabinet also fell apart.

The last legitimate government of Palestine was the government that Ismail Haniyeh established in 2006 after winning the Palestinian parliamentary elections that year.

Although Rami Hamdallah’s cabinet did not come out of the election, it had legal validity because it was formed with the agreement of all Palestinian groups. But after that, the governments of the three prime ministers, Salam Fayyaz, the second term of Rami Hamdallah, and the government appointed by Mohammad Ashtiyeh, were all illegal governments that were formed only on the orders of Abu Mazen. In this sense, these governments can be described as the self-proclaimed “Abu Mazen” governments, which practically had no benefit from the legal and popular legitimacy of the Palestinians.

Resignation in the middle of the war in Gaza

The fact that the self-proclaimed government of “Histiyeh” resigns in the middle of the war in the Gaza Strip carries with it a big question mark, and that ” At a time when all the attention in Palestine, the region and the world is focused on Gaza, what factor has forced the cabinet of the self-governing organizations in the West Bank to resign?”

 Reasons for the resignation of the Cabinet of Self-Governing Organizations 

Mohammed Ashtiyeh, the head of the cabinet of the self-governing organizations in the West Bank, gave the reason for his resignation to the political, security and economic developments related to the Gaza war and the escalation of He mentioned the history of the situation in the West Bank and Quds. He said that the unprecedented efforts to displace the Palestinian people in Gaza, along with the development of settlements in the West Bank and the measures to dissolve UNRWA, the aid agency for Palestinian refugees, are part of these developments. .

The government’s resignation will pave the way for the formation of a new government and political arrangements for a different post-war Gaza situation. In this direction, the realization of national reconciliation and the development of the sovereignty of the self-governing organizations over all the Palestinian territories [referring to the territories specified in the Oslo Agreement] is a necessity. In these statements, Ashtiye emphasized that the Palestinian Authority will continue to fight against the Israeli occupation and try to establish an independent Palestinian state.

“Mohammed Ashtiyeh” as the reason for the resignation of the cabinet, gives the clues of the main cause of this resignation. There are 3 key words that open the way in the words of “Appetite”: first, the different situation of Gaza after the war; second, the formation of the independent state of Palestine; Third, Expanding the sovereignty of self-governing organizations to all Palestinian lands. It says that the cabinet of the self-governing organization has resigned so that a new cabinet can be formed to take over the government after the war in Gaza. In fact, in his statements, “Ashtieh” is announcing the important point that the self-governing organization is preparing to govern the Gaza Strip after the war, and the resignation of the cabinet is part of this preparation process.

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Among all the plans that have been presented so far for the future of the Gaza Strip after the war, only one It is a plan that emphasizes the sovereignty of the self-governing organizations in the Gaza Strip and the formation of an independent Palestinian state. > Demands complete security control of the Zionist regime over the Gaza Strip with a local government with experience in governance. The point of difference between this plan and the statements of “Mohammed Ashtiyeh” is the serious opposition of the Zionists to the formation of an independent Palestinian state. Saudi Arabia wants to create a temporary political structure with the presence of Palestinian groups and hold elections and form a government through the elections.

The plan of the United Arab Emirates calls for the destruction of the resistance groups and the placement of the governance of the Gaza Strip in the hands of “Mohammed Dahlan” after the war.

Resistance plan also seeks the release of Palestinian prisoners, the lifting of the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the holding of Palestinian elections and the continuation of the resistance until the liberation of the entire historical Palestine.

The only plan that calls for the formation of an independent Palestinian state based on the two-state plan is the plan considered by Washington and the Biden cabinet in the current US government. According to the plan of the two governments, simultaneously with the formation of the independent Palestinian government in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, the entire administrative structure of these areas will be handed over to the self-governing organizations. As a result, all political structures are integrated into the structure of the self-governing organization, and all groups that have weapons are integrated into the security apparatus of the self-governing organization.

The plan to establish an independent Palestinian state has two hidden aspects that are hidden behind the democratic appearance of this plan. First of all, the independent state of Palestine will be established in only 18% of historical Palestine, and the rest of the Palestinian territories will be handed over to the Zionists with the official document of the United Nations. Secondly, the message behind the curtain of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state is the disarmament of all resistance groups under the pretext of integration into the security apparatus of the self-governing organization.

The behavior of American governments during 3 decades of agreement on the two-state plan, in the Oslo agreement, has shown that not Washington Neither Tel Aviv, none of them want the formation of an independent Palestinian state, rather, the formation of an independent Palestinian state is based on the dissolution of the resistance groups, which they also insist on advancing.

All in all, it seems that the resignation of the self-proclaimed cabinet of the Palestinian Authority in the midst of the bloody war in Gaza is actually a forced agenda and designed by the White House rather than the preparations for the implementation of the American plan to depose To provide the weapon of resistance in the Gaza Strip after the war both in the field and in the field of diplomacy.

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