The upcoming Fatah Day, January 1, will surely be marked by processions and demonstrations of several hundred mercenaries in the Muqata in Ramallah, but when the procession reaches the end of the street it will realize that the next generation is no longer there. The Arab world is no longer there either.
In the past, the Palestinian cause was even more important to some Arab publics than the internal affairs of their states.
This is why the Palestinians' umbrella fund, the PLO, received a lot of money from individual donations, from international organizations and from Arab and non-Arab countries, and to the financial support was added the moral encouragement that in some Arab countries the call "we are all Palestinians" was commonplace.
No more.
The lack of motivation of young Palestinians, for example, to embark on a third intifada as in the past, is just one symptom that indicates the whole phenomenon.
The Saudi, Moroccan, Emirates and even the Palestinians themselves have been fed up with the slogan "Palestine first", which has turned out to be a hollow call, and it is clear that in recent years they have clung to a new perception, much to the displeasure of Abu Mazen, PLO, Fatah and Hamas.
A perception of each other for the Palestinian leadership, which is perceived as corrupt, anemic and such that its days are numbered.
What caused it?
The atrocities perpetrated by Arab rulers in Arab countries have led these publics to recalculate their course in connection with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
For decades they were educated on hatred of Israel "the murderer of cold-blooded children", and then one day we looked at what happened in Iraq and Syria to understand that this was a deliberate incitement, behind which there is no truth.
The sculptors - in disguise sculpted.
Israel was revealed to them, precisely now, as completely different.
The Arab Spring also turned out to be a blatant lie. The younger generation had high hopes that the revolutions would remove Arab dictators from their seats, and that corrupt and clumsy regimes would be hurled to the ground with heavy noise, but they watched with conspicuous displeasure in the play "Whatever It Was" and were severely disappointed. Another disappointment was the Palestinians who encouraged revolutions in their countries (the Gulf states, Lebanon, North Africa), not for the sake of correction, but for the sake of anarchy. The victims of the Palestinians began to look at the Zionist state from a different perspective. In some of them, Israel has become an ally.
One issue that has been raised in the past with a weak response, and that continues to occupy the Arabs of the world, is the refugee camps.
After more than 70 years of suffering, insult and misery, many in the Arab world, from owners of high-tech companies to street vendors, are asking: Will we hear one day about the expiration date of these camps?
PLO leaders, who declared the need for the "visibility" of the camps as representing the Palestinian tragedy, forgot that these were not shop windows, but square miles of poverty and destitution, slime and sewage. They appropriated luxury homes, sent their children to study in prestigious institutions, took the rehabilitation money from the camps for themselves, and after all - were not ashamed to say to the poor campers: "Wait a little longer, the liberation is near."
Were we wrong?
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