Century Plan Challenges to Triangle Residents Who Define Themselves as Palestinians • Despite the great skepticism about the plan's implementation, the trend in which Arab families buy apartments in Harish and Netanya to determine their status in Israel - may be strengthened

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The century deal - "Safqat al-Karan" - is the most commonly mentioned word network on social networks among the Arab public in Israel. The plan in question concerns them no less than the Palestinians living in PA or the Middle East.

The people I spoke to this week sound like someone who has taken over the establishment of the Palestinian state. Many of them demanded that Arab Knesset members respond. "Where are you, my comrades," one of them wrote on his Facebook, and the other replied: "Those who cannot prevent the demolition of a hut cannot prevent the century plan from being implemented."

Like many in the Israeli public, parts of the Arab public also see in the Centennial Plan the fulfillment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's personal aspirations. Many associate the plan's publication with the indictment against the PM, claiming that the US president is part of the Likud election campaign, a catalyst for Netanyahu to win and establish the next government.

Alongside the harsh criticism, hate speech and curses written and many cartoons drawn in various Arab newspapers, one can also generously find warnings from the apartheid regime if the plan is implemented, and there have also been those who magnified Abu Mazen to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and request citizenship for all residents of the territories, and in other words the keys". This is not the first time that social activists and Arab opinion makers have come out with such calls, in addition to calling on both Abu Mazen and Hamas officials to seize the opportunity for the fusion of the internal Palestinian rift, in order to meet the common challenge.

Quite a bit of black humor and racist jokes have been written by Arabs about the possibility of moving localities from the Triangle area to PA control. Social network users posted humorous pictures showing border crossings between Israel and Palestine, establishing free trade areas in Wadi Ara, and establishing duty free.

Demographic victory

The publication of the program largely revealed the large gap between Arabs, even those who define themselves as "interior Arabs", and Palestinian residents of the Occupied Territories, as quite a few comments and posts were written in the tone of racism and condescension, which indicated that very soon residents of the Triangle area would become To "residents of the Occupied Territories," which puts them at a lower level than the Arab citizens of the State of Israel.

There was no great dialogue on the question for or against the Centennial Plan - on the contrary: all the writers, without exception, were unanimous on the subject: against the plan, against Trump and of course against Netanyahu. For example, journalist and broadcaster Al-Arab, Ziad Halabi, wrote: "Defendant Netanyahu and the persecuted with the danger of impeachment Trump," adding: "Palestine established from the sea to the river with the temporary apartheid regime that demography will defeat it."
The resistance of the Arab public in Israel to transfer residents of the Triangle area to the Palestinian state offered in the plan is clear. For years, this has been talked about, but no influential country or leader like Trump has legitimized the idea that there was a synonym for transfer in the past.

Tailwind. Abu Mazen // Photo: Reuters

However, a big challenge exists for the triangular area residents. They will have to continue to address the question of why they will not be under Palestinian rule if they already define themselves as Palestinians. However, it is difficult and even impossible to disconnect the residents of the Triangle area from daily life in Israel, from work and studies.

For example, an unofficial and underground phenomenon took place, with many of the triangular area residents buying property and real estate in Jewish cities, from Upper Nazareth and Afula in the north to the Netanya area, some even moved in. It turns out that their concern that they will rise one morning and find that they are under rule Of a Palestinian state was in its place.

This trend will now accelerate, and many of the young couples from the Umm al-Fahm area of ​​the Northern Triangle to the village of Kassem in the Southern Triangle will prefer to purchase apartments in cities like Harish and Netanya: thus improving their housing conditions on the one hand and protecting their country from allowing them to move The Palestinian is about to rise.

Abu Mazen's test

Alongside the great opposition to the century plan, there is also severe self-criticism among the Arab public. Many wrote, "What would the Arabs do if there were no social networks? How would the Arabs protect the Palestinians?" With a very clear hint that not enough is being done.

This century's plan brought to mind this week the idea of ​​the "village people" (Abna al-Balad) advocating that the bilingual state solution should be implemented. While the movement has already ceased any social or political activity, many who have identified with its ideology have returned this week to say that this is the best way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For example, director and actor Mahmoud Subuh wrote: "One bilingual state ... this is the solution."

Salim Brick, a political science professor at the University of Haifa, sees a joint vote as something that could cancel the plan, "you will choose the joint list and all Trump programs will be thrown in the trash." According to him, if the power of the party is increased, the right-wing power is weakened.

Along with the fairly certain knowledge that things will not change in the coming years, and the century plan will not be implemented in its current form - and despite the support of major Arab states - many perceive it as a threat to Israel as a Jewish state, as the annexation of the Baka area will provide citizenship or residency to tens of thousands of Palestinians. This is something many Palestinians do not oppose.

PA chairman won credit from the Arab public for refusing to talk to President Trump about publishing the plan. However, many in the Arab public in Israel have called on him to make one active and meaningful decision, and precisely now to announce the cancellation of security coordination with Israel, which in the eyes of Arabs Many Israelis must not exist in the first place, and undoing it is undoubtedly in many eyes part of the opposition to Israeli policy and its actions in the Occupied Territories.

Nothing can surprise the Arab public anymore, especially after the announcement of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia's support for the plan. Many have humorously called on Israel to join the Arab League, as it is part of a new Middle Eastern vision.