Following its adoption of the two-state solution 35 years ago, and its commitment for 16 years (since the signing of Oslo Accord), the Palestinian leadership starts insinuating that it may leave this solution and starts considering the single bi-national state solution.
Of course, there is no problem, in principle, to move to the other solution, the Palestinian leadership has for so long been erroneous by restricting itself within one option.
But the problem here exists in the way this issue being addressed as if it was not more than a caprice or a maneuver to press or threaten Israel for its delay and procrastination regarding the two-state solution and its continuing of the settlement erection in West Bank. In fact, the Palestinian leadership was supposed since long ago to find alternatives, but in the contrary, it kept itself dependent on the solution of a Palestinian state in Gaza and West Bank.
The national Palestinian movement has adapted itself to be dependent on the authority entity, and that there is a large political class whose members’ living standards and social positions are strongly connected with the Authority.
Moreover, a large sector of Palestinians depend, in their living, on the support received from the donor states, in addition to around 180 thousand employee in civil and security sectors in Gaza and West Bank.
Considering the issue from another corner, the position of the Liberation Movement has been marginalized for the benefit of the Authority entity to the extent that it seems impossible to imagine the Palestinian Liberation Movement regaining its role and position, this is not because no one wants that practically, but due to the fact that the situations and circumstances helped in the emergence of the Movement are no longer exist.
In this regard, the current Palestinian leadership has put aside the different types of struggle against Israel, here we do not only refer to the armed struggle, but also the struggle of the masses, Palestinians accustomed to adopt prior to the establishment of the Authority in 1994, such as the first intifada between 1987 and 1993.
This gives an indication that the raising of the bi-national single state option can never come as a caprice or a passing maneuver, this means that such an option has to be considered and studied carefully and both Palestinian and Israeli parties have to be ready to bear all its consequences.
This option simply presumes leaving the talks process as long as it does not lead to the achievement of the required end.
This option also presumes making a decision on the destiny of the current Palestinian Authority either by canceling it or keeping it as a mere authority to run the Palestinians’ affairs.
                                                        To be continued…