<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Fighting a Winning War Against&nbsp;Israel]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>03.01.11 &#8211; 16:25				 			 					 			 				By: Mitri I. Musleh &#8211; Ever since Israel, supported by the world’s  imperialist powers, managed to militarily defeat the Palestinians and  illegally occupy and exploit Palestine for the past six decades, Israel  and its imperialist allies managed to drive and win a propaganda war  which made Israel look like the victim and the Palestinians as the  instigators who are committed on destroying the helpless and defenseless  state of Israeli.</p>
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<p>one reason or another, all of the Palestinian people’s efforts in combating such a powerful enemy ended in total failure.<br />
Meanwhile,  the situation has reached a point in history that is exposing the  deceitful intentions of the Israeli leadership. Israel’s current  leaders, who claim their commitment to achieving a peaceful coexistence  with the Palestinians, are the reason why peace talks are stalled.<br />
The  Palestinian people are only asking for a viable state of Palestine on  the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital. In reality,  this constitutes 22% of original Palestine.<br />
Israel, on the  other hand, is proposing an apartheid Palestinian state surrounded by  armed and illegal Israeli settlements and settlers. It’s military force  would control all border crossing leading to and from the Palestinian  areas including undisputed control of the sea and air making the  proposed Palestinian state in parts of the West Bank and Gaza, excluding  Jerusalem, nothing more than the biggest ever-outdoor jail in history.<br />
Even  though the Palestinian leadership is split on how the next step of  struggle should look like, the Palestinian Authority is changing its  struggle tactics to combat an aggressive occupier. Submitting to the  fact that the Palestinians failed in their political, military and  diplomatic efforts in achieving a Palestinian states, the Palestinian  Authority, under the leadership of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, remain  committed to establishing a Palestinian state through economic means.<br />
Many  Palestinians foresee Prime Minister Fayyad as an honest broker whose  only interest lies in serving the national interests of the state of  Palestine and its people. Mr. Fayyad past education in economics is the  only weapon he is using to build the Palestinian infrastructure  believing it to be the only way to fight corruption and occupation.<br />
Mr. Fayyad’s economic revolution is honest, realistic, and attainable and is guaranteed success.<br />
By  2011, Mr Fayyad will have removed all manufactured illegal Israeli  settlement products from Palestinian shops. In addition, he is creating  jobs and opportunities for the Palestinian youth.<br />
This is a  very positive step in the right direction. It is only through  dedication, determination and commitment that the Palestinians may  succeed in establishing their own state.<br />
I must admit, as a  humanist, I was not so keen on placing economics ahead of freedom. I  strongly believe that first and foremost, the Palestinian youth must  first be freed from the bondage of Israel’s fatal occupation. Creating  jobs and freeing the Palestinians from total dependency on Israeli  products could easily follow.<br />
While I continue to believe that  freedom is more valuable than economics, I truly see the significance  behind Mr Fayyad’s economic revolution and I firmly stand behind his  theory.<br />
The Palestinian people’s final destination is to reach  a viable, self-supporting, secular, democratic and free state of  Palestine.<br />
With the objective remaining the same, does it  really matter which road you take for as long as you successfully arrive  at your destination?<br />
All Palestinian factions, including Hamas, are  firmly standing behind establishing a two-state solution and are willing  to reconcile their differences in order to achieve their objective.<br />
Contrary  to such a positive move presented by the Palestinian leadership,  Israel’s current leaders, in and outside the state of Israel, continue  to defy any international progress made towards establishing peace and  creating economic opportunities in the region.<br />
The number of  country’s realizing the deceitful means of the Israeli leaders is on the  increase daily. It will not be long before the US, Israel’s strongest  supporter, may be forced to ally itself with the majority of the world’s  people and stand truly behind the principles of justice and freedom  that they seem to preach at all times.<br />
With the two-state  solution being dashed by Israel’s leaders, the Palestinians have only  one option to follow. They would be wise to learn from past civil rights  leaders such as, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Ghandi and Nelson  Mandela and demand that their equal rights and liberties be restored to  them within the one-state / one-people solution.</p>
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