During the post-Arafat period, the internal and external situations of the nationalist Palestinian movement have witnessed a maturity causing the movement to fail.
Its failure is being reflected in the fact that it reached the stage of devastating confrontation and internal collapse.
The emergence of HAMAS as an alternative for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in the nineties, and its adoption of a program based on social and political standard plus ambitions that differ totally from the PLO standards and ambitions, have led to the aggravation of the conflict between the PLO supporters and its direction – president (FATAH) – and HAMAS supporters.
All this have coincided with the transformation of PLO led Palestinian struggle under the presidency of Mahmud Abbas from adopting the Algerian model into adopting the Jordanian one i.e. not only accepting the occupier as a helping party in reaching the national liberation, but also accepting it as a partner in the national independence project, and going yet further by transforming the Authority and PLO symbols into collaborators with Israel against the opposition within the nationalist movement.
The said developments and many others cannot be mentioned in here, have led to paralyzing the Palestinian political system and initiating an external attraction to dismantle the nationalist movement from the inside.
This has taken place before the achievement of any of the nationalist movement’s bigger targets, which it determined for itself like: liberating the homeland, rejecting the Zionism as a colonial movement, the return of refugees, establishing a Palestinian state side by side Israel, and achievement of a stable peace.
The reason behind the failure of the Palestinian nationalist movement with the beginning of the 21st century to the nature of the system established by the late Arafat within the PLO, which he later transformed it into the institutions of the Authority.
This system was established on the concept of individualism in grasping the power, adoption of the policy of marginalizing the Palestinian powers and abilities, and disabling the formulation of the political decision causing the project of Palestinians to become projects of the ruling elites.
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