RAMALLAH: A senior Palestinian political chief has known as for a united wrestle towards the incoming authorities in Israel, labelling it racist and extremist, and warning that its declared purpose is to “deepen and consolidate an apartheid regime.”
Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian Nationwide Initiative Motion, urged all Palestinian forces to hitch collectively in a right away bid to boycott and isolate the brand new Israeli management.
His feedback got here after Israel’s hawkish veteran Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as prime minister on Thursday, returning for a sixth time period 18 months after having been ousted from energy.
The Israeli parliament voted to approve his authorities and elected former minister Amir Ohana because the Knesset’s speaker.
Barghouti pointed to Netanyahu’s earlier statements that every one the land of Palestine belongs to the Jews solely and that the correct to self-determination is reserved for them.
The brand new authorities will deepen and consolidate the apartheid regime towards Palestinians dwelling in Israel and the occupied territories by insisting on implementing the regulation of the Jewish state, he stated.
Palestinians within the West Financial institution and Gaza Strip are rising more and more fearful over insurance policies that the Israeli management might undertake within the coming weeks.
Annexing lands within the West Financial institution, altering the established order at Al-Aqsa Mosque, and weakening the Palestinian Authority by army or monetary measures are areas of explicit concern.
Whereas the PA is getting ready to take care of the altering political panorama, many Palestinians concern its techniques and strategies will fail to thwart the Netanyahu’s authorities.
Considerations are rising that the Fatah motion, the most important Palestinian celebration, is preoccupied with inside disputes over who will succeed 87-year-old President Mahmoud Abbas.
On the similar time, the PA has no capability to strain Israel aside from by threatening to finish safety coordination.
Israel not takes the Palestinian president’s threats significantly, some say.
On Dec. 27, Abbas introduced that he’ll lead a nationwide committee together with Palestinian diplomatic and authorized consultants in a world marketing campaign towards the brand new Israeli authorities.
Shawan Jabarin, director of Al-Haq Basis for Human Rights, advised Arab News that the Israeli management’s “extremist non secular and ideological dimension” is more likely to rework the battle with Palestinians from a political dispute right into a bloody non secular rivalry.
“It is a very harmful transformation,” he stated.
Nevertheless, Jabarin believes that Palestinians now have a chance to “expose the true face of the Israeli occupation to the world and embarrass Israel.”
He stated that the composition of the Israeli management “will represent a humiliation to each the EU and the US, as it should hurt them to take sensible steps towards the coverage and method of this authorities.”
A Hamas supply in Gaza, who declined to be named, advised Arab News that the motion considers all Israeli governments dangerous. However the brand new authorities is worse than its predecessors.
The existence of such a authorities would justify army motion by Hamas towards Israel, which might be popularly accepted and understood by regional international locations, the supply stated.
Mukhaimer Abu Saada, a professor of political science at Al-Azhar College in Gaza, stated that Palestinians have an comprehensible concern of the Netanyahu authorities annexing the West Financial institution and confiscating the lands of Palestinian residents in Israel.
He voiced fears that the federal government will attempt to perpetuate the separation of the West Financial institution from the Gaza Strip.
“I don’t suppose Israel will reach separating Gaza from the escalation in Al-Aqsa Mosque and the West Financial institution,” Abu Saada advised Arab News.
Talking after he was sworn in as Israel’s chief, Netanyahu introduced the first strains of the federal government’s coverage and stated: “The brand new authorities is beginning at the moment amid the seventy fifth 12 months of Israel’s independence.
“Within the subsequent 4 years, we are going to work in order that Israel will likely be a world energy within the centennial 12 months of our independence. To do that, we should carry out three main duties. The primary is to thwart Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.”
He added: “The second process is to develop the nation’s infrastructure, together with creating a bullet prepare. The third process is to proceed to develop the circle of peace with Arab international locations to finish the Israeli-Arab battle.”
Outgoing prime minister Yair Lapid left the Knesset with out shaking fingers with Netanyahu, who up to date the profile on his official Twitter account to “prime minister.”
In a signed letter to Netanyahu, greater than 100 retired Israeli ambassadors and overseas ministry officers voiced considerations in regards to the incoming authorities.
The previous diplomats, together with former ambassadors to France, India and Turkiye, expressed “profound concern on the severe injury to Israel’s overseas relations, its worldwide standing and its core pursuits overseas emanating from the coverage of the incoming authorities.”
The letter additionally pointed to “statements made by potential senior office-holders within the authorities and the Knesset,” experiences of coverage modifications within the West Financial institution, and “some doable excessive and discriminatory legal guidelines” as factors of concern.
Netanyahu returns as prime minister with the assist of a number of far-right figures as soon as consigned to the fringes of Israeli politics.
Itamar Ben Gvir, as soon as convicted of incitement to racism and terrorism, will tackle a newly expanded function as nationwide safety minister, overseeing police operations in Israel, in addition to some police exercise within the occupied West Financial institution.
Bezalel Smotrich, chief of the Spiritual Zionism celebration, has been named minister of finance and in addition given the facility to nominate the pinnacle of an Israeli army unit that handles border crossings and permits for Palestinians.
Throughout his marketing campaign, Smotrich proposed drastic authorized reforms that have been seen by many critics as an try to undermine judicial independence.
“The current developments will possible result in strongly detrimental worldwide response, severe hurt to Israel’s strategic relations firstly with the US, (and) doable injury to the Abraham Accords,” the previous diplomats added of their letter.
