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“. . . the Oslo accords gave a Palestinian cover to the Israeli theft of our natural resources like water and for the Israeli freedom to "develop" area C including industrial polluting settlements . . . “

I was scheduled to meet with PA Minister Ziyad Abu Ein a few days later but he was killed yesterday [10 December] by the Israeli colonisation forces while he and over 100 Palestinians were trying to plant trees on private Palestinian land threatened by illegal Jewish colonies. One of his subordinates, another decent man who also belongs to Fatah, told me I should meet with him because he is "different from other Palestinian Authority men". He explained that Abu Ein is one of actions not speeches. My sister remembers him as a friend of her husband Hazem who was also a member of Fatah revolutionary council. I am ashamed to say that while I agreed to the meeting, privately I remained sceptical. Now that meeting will not happen unless it is in the afterlife. My Fatah friend and my sister were proven right about the decency of the man and Minister Ziyad joins tens of thousands who lost their lives while ACTING in the resistance to the colonial settler state of Israel. Others sitting comfortably in fancy PA offices will claim he is "the comrade" and will make speeches. I am certain Mr Abu Ein would not want that, he would want to be honoured by actions not words.

One can only hope that this tragic loss will not go in vain, that it would help awaken the decent people within Fatah so that they now remove the main block to our liberation: the Oslo accords and the security co-ordination that springs from it. My late friend Edward Said labelled these agreements as "the second Nakba". If change does not happen then the words of a "leadership" that does not participate in demonstrations will remain as hollow as their words after the massacres in Gaza or after the assassination of Yasser Arafat. I have a dream that Mr Mahmoud Abbas will wake up one morning and gather 500 of his staff and assistants (easy to do) and go to remove the illegal apartheid wall between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. I am sure he will be joined by thousands (me included) and that Israeli occupation forces will not be able to stop us......

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." – Dante.

Der Author , Mazin Qumsiyeh

Professor and Director Palestine Museum of Natural History,

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