The PA’s duty own entanglement is enabling apartheid.
By Ramona Wadi | Middle East Monitor | Feb 8, 2022
If the deterioration of Palestinians’ political rights has been evident to anyone with or without a shard of humanity, why does the Palestinian Authority have to cling to such reports rather than set the alarm bells ringing itself?
Palestine is always defined by an indefinite present dissociated from its past, a bludgeoning lie against which Palestinians are always struggling. Ever since the UN recognised Israel’s colonial project as a state and projected the humanitarian paradigm onto the Palestinians driven out of their homes and land, it has become convenient for world leaders and diplomats to remain within those parameters.
It has also become incumbent upon human rights organizations to raise awareness of the ramifications of political issues that the international community prefers to ignore. Israeli apartheid is now a mainstream concept, yet Palestinians have been warning about violent, racist segregation and discrimination for years. “Zionism is apartheid,” declared the PLO in 1985, decades before the human rights organization B’Tselem declared Israel to be an apartheid state last year, followed by Human Rights Watch and, more recently, Amnesty International.
If the deterioration of Palestinians’ political rights has been evident to anyone with or without a shard of humanity, why does the Palestinian Authority have to cling to such reports rather than set the alarm bells ringing itself? In his speech to the African Union urging the bloc to rescind its acceptance of Israel as an observer state, PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh portrayed himself as a bearer of exceptionally bad news which should influence the AU decision, rather than the AU basing its decision upon the decades of colonial violence inflicted upon the Palestinian people.
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