News commentator 13 on Arab affairs, Zvika Yehezkeli, spoke today (Monday) with Ben Caspit Winon Magal on their program on 103FM about Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen’s announcement of parliamentary and presidential elections later this year and estimated: “Hamas is likely to win the election, In the PA, it is clear, and it will bleed, according to most estimates. ”
Hamas exercise in the Gaza Strip, including launching a rocket into the sea (Photo: Reuters)
Will there really be elections in the PA?
“There is a chance it will not be. It is difficult to see how Abu Mazen is now taking everyone to the polls. Previous experience has shown that when you open polls really freely, Hamas is taking the parliament for granted.”
The support for Abu Mazen is also very low, I do not understand, why are they making elections?
“There are several reasons. He’s coming out of 4 years of isolation, mostly from the Americans, and it’s a preliminary step towards what will be in two days when Biden takes office. Second thing, he has pressure from all over the world to finish it now – “And he will be bleeding, that’s most of the estimates. It could be that he’s giving some sort of cure for this matter of succession battles here.
“Now the question is, what will democracy do to the Palestinians? I do not know if it will really happen, and if it does, I think his support is really on the floor. I tried to talk to his people this week, I told them, ‘Record me on WhatsApp for a minute with Abu Mazen’s achievements,’ One said to me, “What are you complicating me with? What are Abu Mazen’s achievements?” Abu Mazen actually continued the same Arafatian theory that while less encouraging violence, there was no progress in anything related to the agreement, the concession, the recognition of Israel. “
Will there be elections or will there be no elections?
“Maybe Parliament will have it and then he will take it back and be careful and the presidency will not have it.”
And if there is an election, who will win? Hamas?
“I appreciate Hamas.”
This is crazy, is there a situation where there will be elections and Hamas will control Judea and Samaria?
“But it was already, it was in 2006.”
But did not let them control.
“He will not give them this time either. Why was there a whole coup in Gaza? He did not give them the keys to power in the end and split up. How do you do elections in Gaza and make sure they are free? And what will Abu Mazen do when Dahlan wants to run?”
how is he?
“Dahlan’s condition is excellent. He’s Abu Mazen’s terror. There’s a rumor that Abu Mazen is going to pass a law in the Election Commission that whoever has a criminal record will not be able to run. But I do not know if Abu Mazen released at all, and if he did release, it will only be his people “Like Rajoub, let them continue this story. Maybe there will also be Barghouti’s struggle from prison. But let’s say that, it’s not really about leadership, the Palestinians have no leadership and that’s one of their tragedies.”
Are they with?
“You always ask me, and I will tell you that in the context you ask, they are not a people. The Palestinians, still, are a collection of tribes that everyone is currently doing what is right for them. Look what is happening in Hebron, there is a clan that wants to be under Israeli rule, and there is a clan that participates In an intifada and a clan that does not. “
At the end the people determine if they are a people in their self-definition – we are not relevant to this event. We can say until tomorrow, ‘You are not a people’, but they are sitting here, and they define themselves as a people.
“Let’s say, I do not argue with them, I will not tell them ‘you are not a people’ when they say they are a people, but let’s say, take a state – can you run it as part of a tribe? Without Israel’s bayonets, Abu Mazen would have survived? “He would not succeed, because there are forces here that can not connect to one glue. There are a lot of forces within Israeli society as well, but we will never reach the point where I take out a Kalashnikov and I will come to your studio – it will not happen.”