Divided Palestine
In the situation evolving in Palestine, every loyal supporter of the Palestinian cause would want the Arabs to be more united and stronger in their efforts to establish the rights of the Palestinian people. But the Arabs are far from unity and coordination on the Palestinian issue, and even on various regional and international matters.
But how can the Arabs be unified towards the Palestinian cause, when the Palestinians themselves are not one? Palestinians are divided into two states and two different governments for 15 years, one is represented by Hamas in Gaza and the other is led by the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank. Today, the Palestinians are also thinking in three main directions.
There is a group which still dreams of a Palestinian state through the two-state solution, a solution which has withered and died and will not return to life. US President Joe Biden signed the “death certificate of the two-state solution” last July when he visited Jerusalem, as the Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
A Palestinian group calls for resistance, fighting, and jihad until the liberation of the entire Palestinian soil is achieved. This group is mainly led by Hamas of the Muslim Brotherhood and the (Islamic) Jihad affiliated with Iran.
There is also a group of Palestinians which is the weakest and pragmatic. It began to demand a one-state solution, to live inside Israel, to hold its nationality, and to struggle peacefully for full civil rights and equality with the Jews.
[by Sa’ad Al-Ajmi in Independent Arabia]
Türkiye’s Fair Play
Those who are associated with the Justice and Development Party (AAK) are continuing their concentrated campaign on Turkish TV channels against the United States (US). Their criticism is related to Washington’s position on the Kurdish situation in north-eastern Syria.
So far, Türkiye has managed, under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, its position between the NATO ally of the West and the US on the one hand and developed relations with Russia and China on the other. Washington and its allies have yet to digest Türkiye’s acquisition of the Russian-made S-400 missile system, which is designed primarily to counter Western air threats. This is despite Türkiye being a member of NATO.
The observers feel that Türkiye does not want to leave its historic alliance with the West. It will also be noticed that Europe, the US and NATO are insisting on their part that Türkiye not leave the western boats to maintain international geostrategic balances. They want to manage relations with Ankara in a way which does not allow it to break the rules without harming its position within Western alliance.
Türkiye plays gracefully within the available margins between West and East. But in relations with Russia, it also benefits from the luxury of being accepted as a mediator who succeeded in concluding the grain agreement between Russia and Ukraine. Moscow accepted this mediation even though Türkiye is not a neutral party. Ankara sells Turkish-made “Bayraktar” drones to Kyiv and contributes through this to a military effort hostile to Russian forces in Ukraine.
[by Mohammad Kawas in Sky News Arabia]
Compiled and translated by Faizul Haque