I read criticism of my post "Will the Real People of the West Bank Please Stand Up?" on some other blog, which I would rather not link to, something about it not being fair to criticize my people in the West Bank because they are under occupation as well and that they didn’t choose their leaders, etc.
In fact they did vote for their leaders, in as fair an electoral process as can occur under occupation. I stand by this post though, as someone from the West Bank who is in contact with Palestinians in the West Bank on a daily basis and who travels to the West Bank frequently, I am familiar with the sentiments of people there. They have made some limited financial gains because their despotic leaders are colluding with the Israeli Occupation Forces and some in the West Bank are willing to look the other way when it comes to the corruption of Fatah for that reason. I am not condemning all of the people in the West Bank though, many did attempt to protest the attacks on Gaza last year but were brutally suppressed by the P.A. hooligan regime.
That being said, the current collaboration between the P.A. and Israel is unprecedented and this collusion is to the detriment of all Palestinians–whether in Gaza, Dafaa or Al Quds. Puppets cannot determine the future borders of a Palestinian state and being "tired" from the occupation is not good enough reason to sit idly by and watch the continued unabated expropriation of Palestinian land, the murder of innocent civilians, the siege that is starving and killing Palestinian children. Nothing will change within the leadership if the people in the West Bank don’t do something now. They clearly don’t care about the opinions of Gazans, because Gazans didn’t elect them.
