This fall, normalization has been the big thing here in Samaria. In September, the UAE and Bahrain signed agreements to establish full diplomatic, cultural and commercial relations with Israel. Sudan declared official normalization of relations with Israel in the end of October and Marocco in December 2020.
The head of Dubai’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry visited Israel in the beginning of December. Mr Hamad Buamim made headlines by saying in the Israel’s Globes' interview, that the UAE has no problem with Israeli products from ”the West Bank”, i.e. Judea and Samaria.
During the same visit, the commercial delegation of the UAE signed a cooperation agreement to distribute Tura wines and olive oils across the UAE. Tura Winery is located in Rechelim, in the middle of Samaria.
The ongoing process of normalization between Arab countries and Israel goes, however, a lot deeper than making excellent Samarian wine and olive oil available in a some Arab country.
Why is the normalization such a big thing in Samaria? Because the normalization hits the core of the Palestinian state, which has been planned to be established there.
Soon after the Six-Day War, the Arab League had a summit in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. The Khartoum Resolution 1967 is known of its three NO's. NO peace with Israel, NO recognition of Israel, NO negotiations with it.
There are all kind of interpretations of the Khartoum Resolution, but the reality here on the ground shows clearly, that the concept of the Palestinian state stands on these NO's. The core of the Palestinian state is NO to Israel.
For example, we have never seen in any Palestinian village a single map of Palestine, where the two states (Israel and Palestine) would have been featured together. These are examples of the opposite:
The Palestinian state has been aimed to take back all the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. This very basic thing has been hard to understand in the West, and sometimes in Israel, too.
The Israeli leftists have been one of the strongest supporters of the so-called two state solution. They have been extremely slow to understand the essence of the Palestinian state. Dr. Einat Wilf, former MK of the Labor Party, is one of those who have caught the point. You can watch her journey here:
Arab countries negotiating with the State of Israel, recognizing Israel and making peace with Israel, means that the agreement of some Arab countries with the three NO's has come to end. Israel has appeared into their maps.
The Palestinian state is not anymore a united Arab project to wipe out Israel from the map. The core concept of the Palestinian state has collapsed.
Victor Pelevin, a Russian fiction writer, describes in his novel Generation P the time when communism collapsed:
”It wasn't as though they'd shifted their previous point of view, not that - just that the very space into which their gaze had been directed (after all, a point of view always implies gazing in some particular direction) began to curl back in on itself and disappear, until all that was left of it was a microscopic dot on the windscreen of the mind. Glimpses of entirely different landscapes began to fill in their surroundings.” English translation by Andrew Bromfield with name Homo Zapiens, published by Penguin Books 2000
Something similar seems to be happening now with the Palestinian state.
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