Ordinary Palestinians, as well as the political factions, feel they have little influence on the Palestinian leadership’s decisions. The Palestinian polity is broken. There is no functioning parliament [and the same can be said about our corporately funded congress]. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank are divided under the leaderships of rival factions. The PA government under Salam Fayyad was appointed by presidential decree and elections – presidential, parliamentary and municipal – have all been postponed indefinitely. [Whereas we keep having elections; we elect a different face for the corporate bureaucracy in D.C.]
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I think we are in the same boat. The polity is broken. We have no levers to control the decision-making in Washington.
As the Glen Ford article I just posted said, we are cornered -- no way out without a fight! That's all of us, but the Palestinians are old hands. Hopefully we will learn from their sumoud (steadfastness).
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