Palestinian Authority chairman continues to be offended and works for Israeli political isolation • He and his advisers choose not to move forward from the positions they presented more than two decades ago • Interpretation
Abu Mazen. He had previously been asked to get off the tree he had climbed
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The Palestinian outrage against the United Arab Emirates, justified as it may seem to them, underscores the extent to which the leadership in Ramallah led by Abu Mazen can come up with arguments only for itself.
Abu Mazen and the old guard around him are still deeply rooted in Oslo, as if he had never returned from Tunisia to the West Bank and Gaza Strip with the aim of establishing an independent Palestinian state. Abu Mazen, his advisers and associates chose not to advance an inch from the positions they presented two and a half decades ago and even earlier.
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The Palestinians have not internalized the fact that the Arab Spring and its political and geopolitical implications, and the Iranian nuclear program that is pushing hard for Iran to become a regional nuclear power that threatens the stability of the entire region, have brought about significant change in moderate Arab rulers fearing their rule. The opposite is true: while countries like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the UAE signaled to Israel in one way or another that the Arab peace initiative was right two decades ago and not a sacred document - Abu Mazen and his people were the ones who could not take a more pragmatic approach and take a more active part in the Arab campaign. -Israeli to a new Middle East. Even if it is first a matter of normalizing relations between the countries and not of a full peace agreement that includes embassies, economic relations, trade and tourism.
Instead, Abu Mazen, with the encouragement of his associates and advisers, chose to continue to be offended, to impose boycotts and to work for the political isolation of Israel and even of the United States, the most powerful and important power in the world. Some will say, and rightly so, that the deal of the century formulated by the Trump administration is not the ideal plan for the Palestinians and it even recklessly erases previous promises. But instead of trying to minimize damage and improve attitudes toward Washington, the Palestinian Authority chairman chose the insult route, in which Palestinians not only fortify their insult but applaud their leader who uses sewer language and calls President Trump and his people by appropriate street language rather than political and diplomatic language.
Abu Mazen has been asked more than once to show true leadership and get off the tree he climbed. He was also often given ladders to help, but the chairman of the Palestinian Authority chose and still chooses to remain grumpy and offended. He will not speak to the Americans, certainly not to the Israelis, and Arab countries, the United Nations, and international organizations will do the work for him. The embroidered "in Washington and Jerusalem will also preserve the unity of the Arab camp and its support for the Palestinian interest.
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Apparently, the inexhaustible efforts of Abu Mazen and senior members of the Palestinian leadership to thwart any possibility of direct negotiations without preconditions obscured the Palestinians' ability to notice all the graffiti on the wall and all the red lights that went on and announced that not only the international community was tired of the Palestinian refusal. To the moderate Sunni Arab states.
The United Arab Emirates was the first Arab country in a courageous decision by its leader, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed, to show the Palestinians how to "make peace of the brave" and grant divorce to the Palestinian issue. By all indications, other Arab countries such as Bahrain, Oman, Morocco and even Saudi Arabia will follow the UAE and will likely sign peace or normalization agreements with Israel, while more hinting to Abu Mazen that his doctrine has failed miserably and he has ended his term.
Abu Mazen may have spent his time on the Palestinian Authority as president of the Palestinian Authority, but he is unlikely to be listed in the history books alongside Arab leaders such as the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan who will rest in peace, and UAE crown prince Muhammad bin Zayd. Who knew how to make brave moves - not for their home, but for the future of their people and the countries at their head stood, even if the price was very expensive.
