Al-Quds Al-Arabi surveys the views of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon following the normalization agreement between Bahrain and Israel



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The Palestinian factions in Lebanon organized positions denouncing the normalization that occurred between Bahrain and Israel, and during which they denounced the normalization that came out of secrecy into the open to form a poisonous blow to the back of the Palestinian people.

Palestinian refugees in Lebanon denounced the agreement to normalize relations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and Israel, and demonstrations of condemnation and anger were abundant, and posters were erected at the entrances and along the roads and alleys inside the camps. Palestinians, in opposition to the normalization agreement.

Despite their dangerous economic, political and health conditions, since yesterday morning, Palestinian refugees organized sit-ins, expressing their rejection of normalization between Bahrain and Israel, and also carried out campaigns on social media, in those who criticized Bahrain’s move.

Palestinian factions, activists and popular organizations in Lebanon believed that the normalization of relations between Manama and Tel Aviv before a just and comprehensive peace constituted a new stab in the back of the Palestinian people and a step on the road to the liquidation of its just cause.

Palestinian journalist Muhammad Hussein, a resident of the Shatila camp near Beirut, told “Al-Quds Al-Arabi” that the agreement reached by the Bahraini authorities with Israel, far from the Arab consensus, contradicts the decisions of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and gives legitimacy to the occupation of Jerusalem.

He added that the Bahrain measure, days or weeks after that of the United Arab Emirates, confirmed that some Arab regimes had made the decision to renounce the Arab right to Palestine, recognize an entity that usurped land and displaced a people, and since 1948 has practiced a policy of killing, destroying and confiscating Arab lands.

The Palestinian journalist was shocked by Bahrain’s move and wondered what the Bahraini authorities would gain by normalizing relations so quickly and in this way with the Israeli occupation.

A street coffee vendor sitting near the wall of the martyrs’ cemetery said aloud: “Why all this struggle to normalize relations with those who occupied our land and displaced our people, killed us and confiscated our property?” And he continued his shouts, saying: “Understand, Arabs of Israel, you do not want peace and do not work for peace.”

He added: “I am a university student at the Faculty of Engineering of the Arab University of Beirut, and today I work as a street vendor of coffee because of my misfortune and the laws that govern me and the lack of opportunities. The normalization projects with the occupation? Will they restore my land and my right in Palestine? Will the refugee tragedy stop? Will normalization agreements create pain, pain and poverty? ” And give the Palestinian people their right back? Answering, of course not.

“Al-Quds Al-Arabi” roams the alleys of the Shatila countryside near the Lebanese capital, Beirut, where the misery and cruelty of life is lived, and the images of the martyrs are distributed on the walls throughout of the narrow alleys. The tragedy of life hangs in the face and banners are raised alongside the Palestinian flag, “Normalizing Bahrain, before the Emirates … a betrayal of Palestine and humanity.” Another sign that reads, “Do you protect your thrones through normalization and restore the truth?”

At the Burj Al-Barajneh camp, near the Lebanese capital, the scene is not much different. A state of anger and condemnation reigns in the camp. The refugees were amazed at the news of the normalization of Bahrain’s relations with Israel. A photo at the entrance to Burj Al-Barajneh, the King of Bahrain, next to the Israeli Prime Minister, written below, “Why the betrayal?” Dr. Walid Zebdawi, a Palestinian refugee from the Burj Al-Barajneh camp, described the Bahraini-Israeli deal as a “deal of humiliation and shame” and said: “They traded our cause and turned it into a commodity for sale.” He added that normalizing relations with the occupation will increase its strength and intransigence, and emphasized that the Arabs will open the doors of their countries to espionage. Israeli mafias and smugglers will benefit from the occupation, as for Bahrain, it will inevitably witness sabotage, dismantling and disintegration after it has opened its doors to Israeli mafias, signaling that danger is coming to Manama and there will be no peace or stability with the occupation.

Commenting on the argument put forward by Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates as justification for their agreement with the occupation state, he said: “What prevents the annexation of the lands of the West Bank, are their children, their men and the sacrifices of their people. We, the Palestinian people, are against the deal of the century, even if the entire universe is up against us. “

Regarding the Palestinian refugee from the Burj Al-Barajneh camp, Ahmed Iskandar said: “More than 72 years have passed since our displacement from our land. We are not waiting for anyone to come to defend us or conclude an agreement behind our backs”, highlighting that the Palestinian people know the way and will continue their struggle regardless of the normalization projects. With the occupation.

And Iskandar added: “The Palestinian factions must come together today to discuss what the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have done and prepare for its consequences.” He concluded by saying: “Our hearts are wounded … We live in fields of oppression.”

Regarding Hajj Abu Nayef Al-Asaad, who is a Palestinian refugee from Burj Al-Barajneh camp, he said: “Oh shame of the tattoos on them, there is no honor, principle or even morality. Our heart is wounded. We live in fields of humiliation, oppression, displacement and deprivation, 72 years we bear the wound and we count thorns and not pain “. “.

In turn, Palestinian refugee Bilal Abu Jandal from the Mar Elias camp near Beirut considered the Emirati-Israeli agreement to be the result of a secret communication, which began to appear publicly several years ago, in response to the Israeli desire to open up more in the Arab world, to implement the deal of the century and end the conflict for free. With the occupation at the cost of the rights of the Palestinian people.

For his part, the head of the Palestinian Media Association, Mahmoud Zahir, said the agreement came as the culmination of decades-long undeclared Arab-Israeli relations.

He described the agreement as a stigma denounced by everyone who still carries the blood of Arabism, freedom and the values ​​of religion in their veins.

While social scientist Sawsan El-Gamal said: “The agreement was not surprising. Rather, it was paved years ago, from many visits by Israeli diplomats to the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain, to the many visits by the Israeli Mossad “.

Palestinian factions in Lebanon organized a sit-in in the Rashidieh camp near the Lebanese city of Tire, denouncing the normalization that occurred between Bahrain and the Emirates with Israel, and during the stand they condemned the Bahraini and Emirati-Israeli normalization, which he came out of the secret into the open to form a poisonous blow to the back of the Palestinian people, as the words say. .

In turn, the “Forum of Associations and Organizations of Civil Society Working in the Palestinian Sector” expressed its condemnation of the normalization agreement between the UAE and Bahrain with the Israeli occupation.

In a statement, he said: “It is very regrettable that the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have used the Palestinian question as a scaffold to justify their treason and crime against the nation, its peoples and its sanctities, as they consider that the agreement with the state The occupier saved the occupied Palestinian lands from the annexation process. “

The forum rejected the recourse of some Arab regimes to negotiate with the occupying state, speaking on behalf of the Palestinian people and negotiating over their rights, lands and sanctities.

The forum considered that the normalization processes with the Israeli enemy, the establishment of relations and the signing of agreements will not change the established fact that the enemy is an occupying state and will not grant it any legitimacy over the land of Palestine, and its destiny. will finish. And that the land of Palestine is a right of the Palestinian people, and that they have the full right to fight for their liberation, the restoration of their land and sanctities and the return of the refugees to it.

The announcement of the normalization of relations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and Israel, after a few days of relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, shocked the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, who came out yesterday morning with massive popular movements rejecting agreements of normalization outside the framework of international legitimacy and a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian question.

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