Has Palestine failed politically despite the justice of its cause?

Has Palestine failed politically despite the justice of its cause?

RUBA AYYASH

The past decades have been filled with papers, agreements, and negotiations that have turned over time into more of a linguistic archive than real political tools. Parties fragmented, the Palestinian flag was torn into a thousand flags and flags, the leaders competed, and positions and privileges became an end in their own right, while the general political project remained fragile. Seven decades later, the issue has turned into a quasi-government with quasi-institutions that are unable to impose any real power even on a single street, and the citizen is suffering.

The discussion here is not about the actual injustice, as the injustice is clear and does not need proof, but about how to manage this injustice and turn it into a political force. The victim’s narrative alone is not enough, but over time it becomes a burden as the world gets used to it and loses the ability to empathize with it again. This is what happened with the birth of new tragic issues, with the change of the world and the change of alliances, and with the changes that occur every day in the collective consciousness and unconsciousness of this world.

The world is not biased towards weakness, but rather on the ability to turn weakness into an impactful narrative and a viable strategy. Herein lies the dilemma. It is not possible to build a political system from within the enemy’s system, and then claim to be capable of confronting it. A fully dependent economy cannot be combined with an independent sovereign enterprise without the necessary institutional and social power tools.

People who want to build a state need more than slogans, they need social discipline, respect for the law, corruption-free institutions, and a new narrative that goes beyond wailing to a rational discourse capable of defending the truth in a language that the world understands. You need strong alliances, clear social, political and intellectual laws and rules.

Over time, the Palestinian cause has once again lost its centrality in a world that is rapidly consuming issues. The tragedy is renewed, but the world’s priorities are changing. The law is clear and history bears witness: issues that do not renew their discourse and do not redefine themselves according to international transformations become, over time, more of an archived material than a present political force.

Two years ago, Palestine might have been a spark capable of blowing up the Middle East, but today it is in danger of being sidelined again and becoming a politically and media-consumed story, used more to justify new alliances or regional changes than to be presented as a genuine liberation project.
What I am trying to put forward is akin to a call to reconsider the failures, even though I believe that it is too late and perhaps pointless in the near future to change the scene, as it was supposed to be years ago to reconsider the mistakes that were made and to reevaluate the narrative and the story being told, in order to perhaps make decisions and reforms that might have saved everyone from this hell.

RUBA AYYASH: Multimedia Journalist @ Sky News Arabia ; Master’s in Journalism, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

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