{"id":33895,"date":"2011-02-03T08:28:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T07:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/2011\/02\/03\/"},"modified":"2017-12-30T12:34:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T11:34:49","slug":"waarom-onderdrukt-het-palestijns-gezag-solidariteitsdemonstraties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/2011\/02\/03\/waarom-onderdrukt-het-palestijns-gezag-solidariteitsdemonstraties\/","title":{"rendered":"Waarom onderdrukt het Palestijns Gezag solidariteitsdemonstraties?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lees een interview van Amira Hass met Dr. Mamdouh al-Aker, een 68-jarige uroloog, gestudeerd in Cairo, deelnemer van de Palestijns-Jordaanse delegatie tijdens de Washington-Madrid onderhandelingen.
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\nWhat is that Palestinian Authority afraid of when it bans solidarity demonstrations?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are two reasons. Due to the close relations with the Mubarak regime, the leadership is perplexed by expressions of support for the opponents of a friend. The second reason – when a regime is insufficiently democratic, it fears that popular demonstrations might spin out of control.<\/p>\n

There are reasons to suppose that many of the factors that drove people to protest in Tunisia and Egypt are in play here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is one huge difference: Here we live under Israeli occupation. We have to focus on the main goal of ending the occupation. And that’s the problem: For years we have behaved as though we have turned into a subcontractor of the occupation, so we have to return and make the occupation pay a price. Not necessarily by using arms, and definitely not by harming civilians.<\/p>\n

People dare in several places to confront the Israeli army, but not the Palestinian police.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes. But that won’t continue indefinitely. The main lesson to be drawn from the Al Jazeera documents is that Israel is not ripe for a fair political agreement. So we should concentrate on our internal situation, put our home in order, enhance our steadfastness. A storm of change is soon to happen, and if we fail to change our path, we will be swept up by it.<\/p>\n

People have quoted you as saying that the Palestinian Authority is a police state without being a state.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Generally, I don’t like expressing in Israeli media our criticism of the Palestinian Authority, even though the criticism is public and can be found in all our publications. But I consented to your request for an interview.<\/p>\n

For three years I have been warning that certain characteristics will drag us toward becoming a police state, unless we pay attention: Arbitrary, illegal arrests. Torture of detainees – due to our complaints, there has been an improvement for several months, but now there appears to be a return to this miserable procedure. Screening of candidates for public posts by the intelligence and preventive security apparatus. Arrests of civilians by the security apparatus – there was a promise that this would end, but we will still wait for an explicit guarantee from the high political level. A lack of compliance with court rulings.<\/p>\n

Voor het hele interview: hier.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lees een interview van Amira Hass met Dr. Mamdouh al-Aker, een 68-jarige uroloog, gestudeerd in Cairo, deelnemer van de Palestijns-Jordaanse delegatie tijdens de Washington-Madrid onderhandelingen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[194],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33895"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112391,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895\/revisions\/112391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}