To expect that the United States will not use its veto right in the Security Council against the Goldstone report which condemns Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza, is not even a one-to-a-million probability. However, what is also very realistic is that the report, which will only taint Israel's reputation for a short time, struck a new blow to the Palestinian reconciliation project… after several long months of bitter dialogue between the Palestinian authority and Hamas. What the region's grim reality hides is the transformation of a report which condemns the Palestinians' main enemy into a knife used by some in order to accomplish mass suicide … following every Palestinian's deep feeling of hopelessness from regaining their unity – a feeling as deep as Gaza's tunnels, and the tunnel of conflict between the Palestinian authority and Hamas. When the Palestinian authority acknowledged its mistake in postponing the vote on the Goldstone report then retracted itself, Hamas insisted on performing a form of self-whipping while considering itself lapidating sins through insulting President Mahmoud Abbas with the most horrible condemnations. The Hamas movement not only forgot that Goldstone slammed it as well for committing crimes against human rights but also dug the knife straight into the main Palestinian's chest. It is not a matter of defending Abbas who retracted his mistake - “scandal”- but a search for any policy terms other than the mass suicide that definitely seems to be taking as hostages some leaders of the main Palestinian factions. If not, how come each time the signing of the Goldstone report approaches, the inter-Palestinian reconciliation project is wiped out? And if the leadership in Ramallah considers this to be due to the submission to “regional” wills whose identities can easily be guessed, then the “opponent”, i.e. Hamas, should definitely be considered guilty for sacrificing the Palestinian interests and wasting the opportunity of rescuing them for the benefit of the regional external forces. Moreover, if the Hamas movement considers Abbas to be an enemy, then why is it holding a dialogue with him then grabs the – unexpected – opportunity of the death of a Hamas leader's brother in an Egyptian prison cell in order to cast doubts over the sincerity of the dialogue and reconciliation mediator by accusing it of torturing the brother? It all takes part during the last fifteen minutes right before accomplishing the reconciliation which required a lot of Egyptian efforts after the barbaric Israeli war on Gaza. It all takes place there, in the Gaza strip where the “Dark Emirate” lies (to quote Abbas) where no Palestinian can easily afford to buy a loaf of bread after the Israeli annihilation war, where no house is built without being torn down and consequently leaving its residents homeless, and where every blockade lifted over Gaza produces another discrimination through the daily accusations exchanged between the Palestinian authority and Hamas. If it was an exception for Tzipi Livni to pretend to defend the feelings of the Palestinian authority through accusing Netanyahu of having insulted it by implementing his settlement plan, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza do not care about reminding the former minister of having supported the annihilation war while pretexting the elimination of “the terrorism of Hamas”. The closest reality to the grim present according to non-Palestinian leaders, is that Netanyahu continues to swallow Jerusalem, declares “a sovereignty war” on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and bursts with “generosity” by providing new conditions for “improving the life of Palestinians”, who remain stuck between the blazes of the Israeli right racism and the flames of the inexhaustible conflict between Fatah and Hamas. And if it is fair for President Abbas to score points challenging Hamas to control both the election ballots and the dialogue, thus acting with reason and making compromises in a bid to achieve reconciliation and alleviate the suffering of his people, then his speech in Jenin seems to answer the attempts to provoke him in order to open a new page of a continuous wars and escalations while accusing the Hamas leaders of running away during the Israeli war. Abbas assures that he is revealing the truth, but the question is: why did he decide to answer Hamas now with what he is stigmatizing it with, or offering it a pretext to ruin the signature of the Egyptian reconciliation paper? It is another failure that could be considered by Hamas to be one of the Palestinian authority's “sins”, whose challenge is the movement's acceptance of the signature of the reconciliation paper now, or the sword of the elections next January, in order to avoid avoid any constitutional void on the presidential and parliamentary levels. Between mistakes and sins, Abbas and the Hamas movement are exchanging a series of challenges in which the most powerful gets to respond. However, it is the response that places every Palestinian who has survived the Israeli rockets and ideology of destruction, amidst the hell and blazes of his leaders. On another hand, regardless of the blame against UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon for allowing the votes to take place in the General Assembly instead of the Security Council, the Goldstone report is purely based on the judge's ethical and human side, or so it should. … Amid the calculations of the conflict between the Palestinian authority and the “Emirate”, the human aspect is taking a step backwards in favor of the “ruling and domination” complex. Thousands of sins are being committed against Palestine in the name of the political, national and survival programs as well as the reconciliation project… Everyone is busy; there is no time to count the number of the martyrs who perished from the Israeli rockets. The Palestinian night is long, and the knives are “national”.
