self-governing organizations; From curbing anti-Zionist protests to suppressing them

report Mehr News Agency, Al Jazeera news channel, in a series of articles, examined the role of the Palestinian Authority in the process of the 6-month war after the Al-Aqsa storm operation, and wrote that the issue of Palestine today is at a crucial stage. . The Americans have declared that they need an updated self-governing organization. In this regard, Mohammad Ashtiyeh, the former prime minister of the self-governing organization, announced that the organization that the Israelis and their allies want is not our organization. At the same time, after announcing this issue, he submitted his resignation to Mahmoud Abbas, head of the self-governing organization, because according to his quote, “the future stage and its challenges require a new political and governmental structure that takes into account the new situation in the Gaza Strip.” give.”

In this way, the self-governing organizations signaled their agreement with the American-European innovation within themselves, so that they could, in what was introduced by the West’s plan for the day after the war, have a role.

In this collection, we will try to review the articles related to the positive and negative actions of the self-governing organizations in the Gaza war process.

Why did the self-governing organization not join the Gaza war process?

The US State Department published an interesting statement in December last year and said that it expects the Palestinian Authority to play a constructive role in maintaining stability in the West Bank after the events of September 7. . Before that, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken thanked and appreciated Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Self-Governing Organization, for the very important role that this organization played in controlling and restraining the West Bank and preventing it from becoming a new front of conflicts.

Following the developments in the West Bank shows that more than 400 people have been martyred in this region, especially in its northern regions, since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa storm operation. that the level of inflammation in the West Bank is very high and this is something that the Zionist regime is well aware of. Last January, the Zionists called their special forces unit from Gaza to the West Bank in order to have a good response to the assessments of their intelligence services, which showed that the West Bank is on the verge of an explosion.

The policy of the Palestinian Authority in dealing with the public anger of the people in the West Bank during the Gaza war is also significant. . This policy started with tolerance and trying to reduce the anger of public opinion and continued with excessive suppression of peaceful Palestinian protests and finally the self-governing organization tried to destroy the infrastructure of armed groups that operate in different areas of the West Bank.

Next, we will examine each of these three steps in detail:

First: the policy of control and containment

After 4 months since the closure, about 200 thousand workers from the West Bank who worked in Zionist settlements and The salary of more than 140,000 government employees in the self-governing organization has been delayed for about 4 months. Hossein al-Sheikh, the secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Movement Executive Committee, met with the head of the Internal Security Service of the Zionist regime and the head of Shabak and the coordinator of the activities of the Israeli cabinet in the West Bank. It was clear from the positions of the visiting people that the Israelis have security demands from the self-governing organization and they want this organization to stop the increase in tension in the West Bank.

Hussein al-Sheikh, on the other hand, called for economic development and the issuing of permits for workers to return to the occupied territories, and the Israelis without Positive answer, they promised to investigate this issue.

In this way, the self-governing organization has tried to reduce the inflammation in the West Bank by receiving some economic facilities.

Eshti saw the unemployment of the workers as an opportunity for them to return to agriculture in the West Bank, but the people knew very well. that these words are not true, because the vast majority of agricultural lands in the West Bank are stolen daily by the Zionists, in addition to the fact that the Zionist regime hardly issues permits for the use of these lands in agriculture and construction, and from 2009 to 2018 only 98 licenses have been issued in this field.

Palestinian authorities at the beginning of the crisis to avoid tension, special opposition about anti-Zionist whispers in the West Bank As the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs affiliated with this organization did not prohibit speeches about Gaza and its problems, most of the sermons were dedicated to this topic. Of course, at that time, some preachers were banned from speaking because of their harsh criticisms, and they were asked to collect donations and pray for the people of Gaza instead of provoking the worshipers.

The self-governing organizations not only destroyed the influence of the mosque in the revolutionary approaches of the people of the West Bank, but also marginalized the influence of popular strikes. After the martyrdom of every martyr in the West Bank provinces, the self-governing organization announced a general strike, which was followed only by the closing of commercial centers and did not include any activities in opposition to the Zionist regime. In this way, the energy of the people and their anger subsided and their social life conditions were also paralyzed so that they could not confront the Zionist regime.

The self-governing organizations had also prepared planned demonstrations and protests to contain the public anger, which could subjugate the public with slogans that did not exceed a certain ceiling. to have control and not lead them to the boiling of their emotions, in this way their protest demonstrations also entered into a routine and meaningless phase.

Second: suppression of popular protests

In a situation where the people of the West Bank are moving here and there for fear of war bullets, sound and tear gas in the streets of these areas, which were fired by the security forces of the organization. were fleeing, Mahmoud Abbas had a meeting with the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Amman, the capital of Jordan. He left this trip halfway and returned to Ramallah and in a seven-minute speech! He tried to calm the public anger about the crime of Maamdani.

In the protests related to the crime of Maamdani, the security forces of the Self-Governing Organization did not give up any means to suppress the protests, and in less than two weeks, 4 Palestinians were killed by the soldiers of the Self-Governing Organization. They were martyred. Fatah forces arrested more than a hundred Palestinian protesters in one week, and the trial process of some of them is still ongoing. The arrested people were tortured and ill-treated in the prisons of the self-governing organizations.

The security forces of the self-governing organizations increased the pressure on the people of the West Bank by threatening them with financial fines and destroying their homes and prevented them from forming protests against the Zionist regime. Of course, this repression was not focused only on the stage after the Al-Aqsa storm operation, and in 2023, the self-governing organization martyred 5 Palestinians, arrested 900 people, violated people’s civil liberties in 500 cases, and suppressed demonstrations in 277 cases. It was registered.

Third: containment of anti-Zionist protests by self-governing organizations

Majid Farah, the head of the intelligence service of the Palestinian Authority in 2016, emphasized in a press conference that the security services of the Palestinian Authority in less than four months at least 200 possible attacks against Israel. failed and arrested more than 100 Palestinians in this regard. The achievement that this organization is proud of is the result of the presence of 65,000 security forces in the organization, which actually has one security force for every 49 Palestinians.

This interview shows the importance of self-governing organizations for America and Europe. A month before the start of the al-Aqsa storm operation, the Americans sent armored vehicles and weapons to these organizations to prevent the strengthening of the activities of armed groups in the West Bank, which, according to the Zionist media, amounted to more than 1,500 weapons, including Lerzi M16 weapons and Kalashnikov and 10 armored vehicles were used to suppress public protests.

It is precisely for this reason that Yoav Galant, the Minister of War of the Zionist regime, in the midst of the Al-Aqsa storm operation, describes the existence of self-governing organizations as part of Israel’s security interests, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the regime The Zionist also says: We need self-governing organizations and we will not allow it to collapse. Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, also states that Tel Aviv needs to maintain its relations with the Palestinian Authority in order to maintain its security.

The Palestinian Authority, within the framework of its security missions for the Zionist regime, has neutralized many improvised bombs and ambushes created by the anti-military resistance forces of the Zionist regime. Have. These forces have also arrested several people wanted by the Zionist regime and handed them over to this regime.

Over the past 20 years, the self-governing organizations under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas have sought to change the Palestinian society and are trying to prevent the recurrence of the second intifada within the framework of American and Israeli conspiracies. It was precisely for this reason that after the second intifada, between 2007 and 2011, America spent more than half a billion dollars to equip and train 29,000 security forces of the self-governing organization and appointed American General Keith Dayton to reform the organization’s security services.

Since August 2007, the self-governing organizations have banned the activities of the Hamas movement in the West Bank and punished anyone who helps this movement and confiscated the property of its supporters. confiscates Arresting elements affiliated with Hamas is another service of the self-governing organizations to the Zionist regime. Fatah’s security forces have also destroyed more than 90 zakat institutions and 130 charitable institutions that were allocating their aid to resistance groups.

The policy of economic reforms that Salam Fayyaz, the former prime minister of the self-governing organization, proposed was to give extensive loans to the people of the West Bank under the pretext of economic prosperity and He got heavily in debt, despite the fact that these loans were given only for consumer goods and it was not possible to use them in the fields of production and independence from the Zionist regime. Some of these loans were provided for the import of luxury cars to the West Bank, until it was announced in 2018 that 22% of West Bank cars are in bank mortgages.

The total amount of these loans in 2023 is 11 billion dollars. In this way, with economic blackmail from the people of the West Bank, the possibility of political activities will be taken away from them, and they will not have a say against the policies of the occupiers and Zionist settlement.