Democratic Palestine : 27 (ص 15)
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- Democratic Palestine : 27 (ص 15)
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Bae is : is bod Ss
Kalandia camp, West Bank, walled in to prevent stonethrowing
by these measures, the occupation authorities confiscated his
land on the pretext that it had become fallow.
Public services provided to Palestinians are curtailed by the
Zionist authorities’ racist discrimination. The Palestinian
masses of the 1948 occupied territories face this racism in
their daily life. The financial crisis of the local Arab
municipalities, and the discrimination against Palestinian
students and employees, attest to this situation. In the oc-
cupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, services are only provided
for the purpose of eliminating the militant spirit of the
Palestinian masses. The services provided by the ‘civil’ ad-
ministration and some collaborators are geared to making the
Palestinian population consumption - oriented.
The Zionists employ the iron fist policy for confronting the
ever-growing mass uprising, following the failure of other
means to subdue the population. The iron fist policy is a true
manifestation of the character of the conflict. It means
outright murder, detention, deportation, confiscation, collec-
tive punishment, etc.
On the political level, several projects have been introduced
with the sole purpose of eliminating the Palestinian cause. The
most prominent of these plans are:
1. The Allon plan (1970), which was also called the regional
solution, calls for Israeli withdrawal from parts of the West
Bank, to be turned over to Jordan, while most of the territory
would remain under Israeli occupation.
2. King Hussein’s United Kingdom plan (1972) complements
the goals of the Allon plan by calling for the West Bank’s
merger with Jordan, and sidestepping the PLO.
3. In the mid-seventies, the occupation authorities organized
a general election for the West Bank municipalities, hoping to
create a gateway for controlling them. Contrary to Zionist ex-
pectations, the elections resulted in the ascendence of Palesti-
nian nationalist mayors. This led to direct confrontation with
the occupation forces, climaxed by the terrorist attempts on the
lives of the elected mayors of Nablus, Ramallah and Al Bireh.
Following the failure to assassinate the mayors, the Israeli oc-
cupation authorities fired them and installed Israeli military
officers. Later some Palestinian collaborators were appointed
as mayors by the Israeli authorities, with the approval of the
Jordanian regime.
4. Parallel to the confrontation with the elected mayors, the
Israeli authorities attempted to impose the ‘autonomy’ plan
and ‘civil’ administration, whereby the occupation of the land
continues, the inhabitants are granted self-rule in daily affairs,
while security remains in Israeli hands. The ‘autonomy’ plan
failed, but it was accompanied by the attempt to impose the
village leagues, groups of collaborators created by the occupa-
tion authorities, aimed at dividing the masses and their support
to the PLO. Though the village leagues were granted certain
privileges like permission to carry arms and to help people in
getting construction licenses, electricity, etc., the Palestinian
masses rejected them altogether and the Israelis had to give up
trying to impose them as an alternative leadership.
5. The most recent plan was created under the pretext of
improving the Palestinians’ living conditions. The occupation
authorities’ new approach was based on the need to develop a
social strata on which they could rely in implementing their li-
quidationist plans. Therefore, in a joint US—Israeli—Jorda-
nian effort, funds were allocated and some service projects
begun, to develop a Palestinian strata to serve as a Trojan
horse in the future. The slogan of improving living conditions
corresponded with the plan for a division of functions between
the Jordanian regime and the Israeli occupation authorities.
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