Unity agreement, with and against

In March 15^th hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Youth and elders demonstrated for their national unity. The protestors were marginalized and attacked brutally, a gun and a stick aren’t necessary to marginalize one’s opinion and voice, although Hamas used them in the worst possible ways, Hamas also introduced a less harmful way to marginalize, using super noisy speakers.

All indications in March 15^th and the days after, arresting, beating, and stabbing do directly show that there wasn’t any real attitude within Gaza de facto Hamas government to deal in peaceful way or to step to the demands of the crowds, for many reasons nobody in Gaza was impressed about the way Hamas behaved.

April 2011, four years after the former Mecca Agreement in February 2007 to cease fire and to form a National Unity Government, the same story is being re-narrated though in an Egyptian style. The later Mecca Agreement wasn’t to last more than few weeks or days I don’t remember, it ended with a horrible bloodshed and Hamas take over Gaza by gun. Since then both factions Hamas and Fatah violated basic Human Rights in Gaza and the West Bank respectively.

Today as a new agreement is signed, in a most like “similar” manner; an important question has to be and is raised. What is the guarantee that we aren’t going back to the same point?

Averroes A.K.A.  Ibn Rushd said “Believe what you see, and some of what you hear.” I liked that saying some years ago, but today I must say it is totally irrelevant, today you must ignore everything you hear, and question everything you see. I would have liked a unity agreement based on the demands of the crowds in March 15th and later protests. Being realistic the agreement was solely a result of the change in the Arab World and its geo-political implications, and it is meant only to serve the interests of both Hamas and Fatah regardless their moral duty towards the nation. It was the very same case 4 years ago in Mecca.

We should understand that the dogmatic mentality of both of Hamas and Fatah can’t be changed in a day and night, it didn’t change. A question should be asked now, if the regional situation changes in favor of one of the factions against the other, what are we going to witness? Another militant cope? What are the strategies and tactics planned to prevent bloodshed? I am not so proud to state the truth; we have no answers for such questions. Personally I do have profound fears, I lost faith and trust in any political faction in Palestine, and I can’t see them do any good.

What is needed today to save our society from a possible coming disaster like that of the year 2007? I believe a strong, functioning, and active movement of citizenship rights and spreading public awareness. A clear trend and call for a state of citizenship. It should be discussed, and it should be proved.