Nablus- Before and after the war, Israeli incitement against the Palestinian Authority did not stop, but after the Al-Aqsa flood on the seventh of last October, it escalated further, and it became noticeable that Israel, at all its political and military levels, monitors every intrusion and incoming, not in the conversations of the Palestinian Authority and its various components, but in its actions. Also, it demands that it condemn its people for every act of resistance.
The last bit of this incitement came from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself, which was reported by the Israeli Kan channel today, saying, “We are preparing for the possibility of a confrontation with the Palestinian Authority’s security services in the West Bank.”
Before that, there was criticism of press statements by Major General Jibril Rajoub, a leader of the Palestinian Authority, in which he said, “What happened on October 7 in Gaza may happen in the West Bank.”
The Israeli extreme right led these criticisms and incitement in all its forms, especially in the words of Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, who still sees the Palestinian Authority as a “partner in incitement” against Israel, as he mentioned in more than one statement.
During the first days of the war, Israel did not stop its incitement and assertion that it was not possible under any form to enable the Palestinian Authority to rule Gaza and return it to it.
But why all this incitement? A question answered by Palestinian officials and experts who spoke to Tel Aviv Tribune Net about Israeli tools to pressure the Palestinian Authority, to subjugate it more and urge it to respond to everything the occupation wants.
Drawing power into war
Abdel Atira, advisor to the Palestinian Prime Minister and member of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement, says, “Israel is waging a war against all the Palestinian people in all their locations, and the goal is to end the Palestinian issue through deportation, killing, and demolition.”
He added to Tel Aviv Tribune Net, “Israel is inciting to drag the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank into a battle in which it cannot be equal, and is not in the interest of the Palestinian people, and aims to displace them, and this will not happen.”
Al-Atira stressed that incitement against them in the Palestinian Authority is “daily,” and said, “A few days ago, we went to offer condolences to one of the martyrs of the Balata camp near Nablus, and the occupation published our pictures amid great provocation.”
The Palestinian leader pointed out that Netanyahu and his government are working to undermine the regime under the Palestinian Authority, and they do not want the Authority as a whole. He said, “Israel wants our people to be submissive and submissive to Israel, and it has announced this repeatedly.”
He stated that what is happening now is completely similar to that stage a year before the assassination of the late President Yasser Arafat, “to bring us into a battle that we do not want now and cannot afford.”
He stated that the security forces in the West Bank are “policemen, working to maintain security, and do not have enough weapons or ammunition to enable them to withstand a military vehicle for hours.”
Al-Atira did not rule out the same fate that Abu Ammar faced with the current Palestinian leadership, and said, “The Palestinians are besieged financially, economically, geographically, and by political decisions as well, and the occupation is waging a war based on religious beliefs and out of revenge.”
For his part, Hani Al-Masry, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy Research and Strategic Studies (Masarat), believed that what is required of the Authority is more than what it provides, and that is why Israel is inciting it against it.
Al-Masry told Al-Jazeera Net, “The authority is cooperating, and it is required to be an agent, to condemn the Al-Aqsa flood, to pursue the resistance, to cut the salaries of prisoners and martyrs, to change its educational curricula, and not to incite through the media, and so on.”
According to Al-Masry, power passed through several stages, and now the final stage has come, which is “transformation to workers,” as Israel wants. He explained that the stage of the late president “Abu Ammar” was a political process in which there were mutual obligations, while the era of the current president, Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen, was characterized by obligations. Political by one party, the Palestinian.
Fragmentation of power
The question remains: Does the authority accept this or not? Al-Masry answers, “If the authority rejects the dictates of the occupation, it will be fragmented and transformed into multiple authorities, and if it is accepted as a whole, or parts of it, it will become loyal to the occupation against its people.”
Al-Masry stated that there may be no demands to change power now, but what is proposed by America is to change it with its approval, by turning Abu Mazen into an honorary president, and creating a government and a president with great powers, which is the same method that was used with Abu Ammar when Abu Mazen was installed as prime minister, according to his opinion.
Although he ruled out the authority’s response to the dictates of the occupation and its pressures exerted through incitement, because it depends on the Fatah movement with its history of struggle and nationalism, Al-Masry did not rule out the possibility that “individuals and segments within the authority would do this and meet the occupation’s demands.”
According to Al-Masry, the occupation does not want an authority that expresses a national identity and has political ambitions, but rather an authority that manages life services for its people and works to serve the occupation.
Actions required
On the other hand, Hassan Khraisha, the politician and Vice President of the Legislative Council, saw that the Israeli incitement confirms the unified vision of all Israelis in rejecting Oslo and the two-state solution, and thus displacing the Palestinians through the massacres it commits in Gaza, and attempts to root out resistance in the West Bank, but it failed in both matters.
Kreisha confirms to Tel Aviv Tribune Net that all Palestinians are targeted by Israel, whether they are compromising, negotiating, or resisting, and this requires that the Palestinian Authority take this incitement seriously, and protect its people in the first place, and it must also implement the decisions of the national and central councils to stop working on Oslo and end its consequences of coordination. Security and others.
It is no longer required to protect the resistance only and provide political cover for it. Rather, it must actually engage in the resistance process in the West Bank, given that everyone is targeted, and there is no choice but to confront the occupation.