AGGRESSION ON IRAQ AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS

ON THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE

By: Adib S. Kawar

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It goes without saying that the Anglo /American / Zionist aggression on Iraq, had left its worst repercussions on the Palestinian cause, and its struggle for the liberation of the land and the people. The reasons are many, but the most important of which is due to the fact that our enemy had been working on replacing our people, and had already occupied our land, Palestine, by using force and terrorism.

 Aggression on Iraq came under the banner of liberating it from its dictatorial regime, and replacing it by a democratic liberal rule, which came armed with a huge arsenal of deadly and most sophisticated weapons, and by a concentrated and flagrant Israeli / Zionist instigation, both the American and the Zionist agitators and aggressors who belong to the extreme rightist likudenics.

 No doubt the Zionist state benefited most from this aggression, because although Iraq was under the burden of a dictatorial regime, siege and sanctions, which crippled it, but it was still a scarecrow for the Zionist enemy. Iraq has unlimited human and natural potentials and resources. It also used to give material, financial and moral support to Palestinian Arabs, and their patriotic leadership, during their INTIFADAH. What angered Zionists most was the financial help Iraq extended to the families of INTIFADAH martyrs, when almost all financial support from most other Arab sources was interrupted under U.S. pressure, which was stirred by the Zionist / Israeli lobbies.

 In the absence of the Iraqi scarecrow from the Arab horizon, and due to the weakness of the Palestinian administration (government), and the willingness of those who look forward to replace it, to end the INTIFADAH and unarm it, the only mean besides the people’s resistance and their adamant will to fight for their existence in their land, or die in its defense, is the only weapon still available to them.

 As a result of the aggression on Iraq, the submission of the Palestinian official leadership to the American / Zionist pressure that followed it, and the interference (goodwill) of certain Arab regimes who received the American and Zionist blessings, the Palestinian official leadership gave up its conditions on the forming of the new Palestinian cabinet under the leadership of Abu Mazen / Dahlan. They both want to put an end to the INTIFADAH and its armed resistance. The juggleries played to go around the opposition and the presidential conditions that facilitated the forming of the government are well known.

 The imposed solution was that the “assigned” Prime Minister would carry the portfolio of the ministry of the interior, which actually became the ministry of municipalities as it was skimmed of its armed force, which was put under the control of Dahlan under the title of minister of state for security, the thing the president opposed. With this force put in the hands of the latter he can fulfill the assignment appointed to him by those who imposed this solution.

 The Palestinian presidency was put under siege in the “Mukataa” building surrounded with the rubble of its annexes. The “Mukataa” building was not demolished over the heads of those who were confined in it, because of certain international conditions. But still the Palestinian presidency was enjoying a lot of international, and some popular support. But with the strength and ascendancy the Americans and Zionists gained as a result of the aggression on Iraq, they could force the Palestinian official leadership to submit to their orders. Americans / Zionists forced most Arab rulers for further submission, just to be able to continue sitting on their thrones and presidential chairs, which further increase Arab weakness in facing the repercussions of the aggression on Iraq.

 The United States had clearly said that one of the major aims of the aggression is to preserve the security of “Israel”, the Zionist State.

 Considering the Palestinian Presidency ,we disagree with it, and we do not approve of its actions, due to its system of rule, namely acting single-handedly. This sort of disposition opened the way wide for the Zionist enemy and its strategic ally, especially after the aggression, and gave them the “credibility” to accuse the Palestinian authority of corruption and acting single-handedly. This encouraged them to demand the change of the official leadership.

 On this basis, and in spite of our full trust in our people, their heroic struggle to defend themselves and their right to stand fast in their land, in occupied Palestine, and to defeat the Zionist enemy and its supporters, but we still see after this aggression a very long tunnel that we have to pass through.