The PA stands accused

Funeral of 3 Fatah activists in Nablus on 26 December 2009


By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank

It is widely assumed that the Palestinian Authority (PA) security apparatus played a certain role in the hideous murder by the criminal Israeli occupation army of three Fatah operatives in Nablus a few days ago.

The extrajudicial execution of the three young men, including the barbaric practice of shooting each victim several more bullets to verify his death, took place in full view of their children and families.

The despicable murder has shown that the Israeli army remains as faithful as ever to its cruel traditions.

The Zionist regime claimed that the three victims were responsible for the killing of a Jewish settler a few days earlier. However, it is nearly certain that this claim has no iota of truth.

In fact, the occupation army has produced absolutely no evidence proving its claim, which is a routine behavior resorted to every time innocent Palestinians are murdered in cold blood.

After all, we Palestinians are too accustomed to seeing the Israeli Wehrmacht murder our people and then concoct lies to justify the murder.

As to the PA, and while it is still hard to produce irrefutable evidence indicting its security apparatus for complicity in the murderous Zionist foray in Nablus, it is also hard to exonerate the American-funded apparatus of collusion with Israel .

Indeed, the very doctrine now espoused by the PA security forces, especially since the American Gen. Keith Dayton became the one calling the shots in the West Bank, is that Hamas, not the Israeli occupation, is the enemy and that “any one attacking Israel and the settlers is acting against the national interests of the Palestinian people.

In other words, for those trained, or more correctly brain-washed by Dayton, the resistance against the Nazi-like Israeli occupation is actually an act of treason that goes against Palestinian interests.

Moreover, the huge shame, otherwise known as “security coordination” is alone sufficient to declare the PA regime guilty.

Many questions are awaiting answers as to how the Israeli army was able to locate the homes of these people. The people of Nablus, many of whom took part in the funeral procession of the three martyrs, are asking whether the PA collaborated with the Israelis in locating the martyrs’ homes. Such questions acquire legitimacy especially after Israeli security chiefs praised PA cooperation with the Israeli army in “getting the job done.” So, did the PA security apparatus inform on the martyrs or conveyed their identities to the occupation’s authorities?

If this happened, then the PA must be exposed to our people. After all, the PA security apparatus can’t practice treason under the rubric of maintaining law and order. It can’t practice treachery in the name of patriotism. It can’t murder Fatah’s men, even indirectly, in the name of Fatah, and it must not continue to murder Hamas’s supporters on Israel’s behalf, using Fatah as a card to justify its subservience and collaboration with Israel.

The murder by “our partner and ally,” (this is how one of the highest PA security commanders in the West Bank referred to the Israeli army less than two years ago) of the three Fatah activists in full view of their wives and children should be a turning point in the relations between Fatah and the PA.

Fatah nationalists, who are truly committed to the Palestinian cause, must now stop and think before giving the American-backed junta in Ramallah the benefit of the doubt. Fatah must not allow itself to be manipulated by the slaves of Keith Dayton for the sake of transforming occupied Palestine into a collaborationist entity, a kind of CIA-controlled fiefdom, or combined American-Israeli oasis or banana republic.

More to the point, every Palestinian man and child is asking why the PA is maintaining all these tens of thousands of trained soldiers if it is not for protecting the Palestinian people from the murderous whims of the Judeo-Nazi occupation.

Does it befit our national honor and dignity that our soldiers, the soldiers of Palestine, are instructed to disappear into their coops whenever Israeli troops appear from nowhere in order to murder our citizens, including Fatah’s own men?

I realize that the PA forces are not equipped to confront the Israeli occupation army. However, having said that, it is absolutely dishonorable for these pitiful young Palestinians to do nothing while the enemy invades our towns and murders our people. For God’s sake, if you can’t do anything, at least let those who can, do the job. Don’t shoot them, don’t hound them, don’t obey Dayton who represents Israel’s guardian-ally, the ultimate tormentor of the Palestinian cause.

Hence, leaving this dishonorable job, even at the risk of being forced to sell Falafel in the streets of the West Bank , becomes an honorable choice.

After all, one doesn’t dignify himself and his family, let alone his people, by facilitating the murder of his own brothers and countrymen at the hands of the Judeo-Nazi occupiers of our country and tormentors of our people.

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