Writer Rasem Obaidat

Within the framework of popular action in the field, models and examples emerge, as well as innovations in confronting projects and plans for Judaization and Israelization, and also in confronting plans of expulsion, displacement, ethnic cleansing, and home demolition, and the attempt to impose facts that affect the identity of the place or the sanctity of this place... and the field is always full of experiences and examples from which they are derived. Methods, methods, plans, and mechanisms for how to address, confront, and confront these projects and plans, and this depends on the presence of a leadership that possesses the vision, clarity of purpose, and the ability to mobilize, frame, and act in the field, away from the “phobia” of theorizing and resonant slogans, or managing the movement from ivory towers or from behind “Facebook keyboards.” …etc.

Here, before going into the details, it must be made clear that any popular or popular uprising that has a political dimension, goals, demands, or economic, social, and service life demands, or a donation that comes as a reaction to a specific action, requires levers, carriers, a large human mass, and leadership that has a vision and is specific to the goal. Clearly, and capable of investing and employing the popular and field movement or movement, in accumulating achievements on the path to achieving the specified goal, and the leadership must be trustworthy, firm on its positions and the goals for which the popular and popular movement or battle is being waged; These battles or donations may be a short-term or long-term battle....For example, in the donations that the city of Jerusalem waged for a specific purpose and goal...it was able to achieve achievements and fail. Judaization projects and plans, as well as Israelization projects...For example, the gift that came as a response to... By placing electronic gates at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque in July 2017, the Jerusalemites, our people and our people inside Palestine - 48 - were able to force the entity state to remove those gates, through continuous prayers and sit-ins and huge human masses in the streets and at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Likewise, our people succeeded in The Palestinian Inside - 48 - In thwarting the racist “Prafer” plan and project to expel the displacement of our people in the Negev (October 2013), and preventing the removal and demolition of more than 40 villages there, which the Entity State classifies as unrecognized villages. Likewise, the Entity State did not succeed in deleting The village of Al-Araqib and the displacement of its residents, despite its demolition for the 212th time. There are examples of serious and real popular resistance in the village of Beita - Nablus, which paid nine sacrifices to prevent the seizure of Mount Subeih and the establishment of a settlement outpost on it, as well as the people of Masafer Yatta, where there are risks of uprooting, displacement and ethnic cleansing. 12 communities there are threatened, meaning the displacement of more than three thousand Palestinians.

As for Jerusalem, which was subjected to the largest process of Judaization and Israelization, through policies of expulsion, displacement, ethnic cleansing, and house demolition, the Khan al-Ahmar community emerged east of the city of Jerusalem. In March 2010, the civil administration and military government issued a decision to evacuate it and demolish all the homes, facilities, and barracks built on it, for the purposes of And political and Judaizing goals. The expulsion and displacement of the residents of Khan al-Ahmar allows control over an area of 12 thousand dunums, from the east of Jerusalem to the outskirts of the Dead Sea. It also closes the eastern gate of the city of Jerusalem, cancels what is known as the two-state solution, and separates the north of the West Bank from its south. Perhaps the steadfastness and steadfastness of the people of the Khan On their land, popular and popular activities and protests, sit-ins and overnight stays continuously for four months inside the Khan by foreign forces, activists and supporters, as well as the International Criminal Court’s decision which considered the expulsion and displacement decision amounting to a war crime, preventing the implementation of the decision of what is known as the Supreme Court of Justice to expel and displace the residents of Khan Al-Ahmar. With the takeover of the extreme right-wing government in partnership with Jewish fascism, the issue of displacing the residents of Khan al-Ahmar came to the fore again, and in light of the insistence of the residents of Khan in refusing to uproot them, the popular support and support for their positions, and the political situation that the entity state is experiencing, what is known as the Supreme Court of Justice postponed its decision in 1/2/2023, to evacuate Khan Al-Ahmar for a period of four months, to enable the political level to prepare the atmosphere for the demolition.

As for the “rehearsals” of civil disobedience and the rejection of the policies of Judaization, displacement, and home demolition, here we will discuss two experiences of a high degree of importance, one from Jabal Mukaber and the other from Shuafat Camp. The village of Jabal Mukaber, which constitutes the southern flank of the city of Jerusalem, is exposed to the dangers of Judaization and stone targeting. As a result of expulsion, displacement, and uprooting, the largest settlement outpost, “Nof Zion,” (400) settlement units located in the heart of Jabal Mukaber, began to be built in 2004, in three phases. The first and second phases were completed, and during the next four years, the final phase will be completed. It is planned to expand that settlement to 500 settlement units, establish 275 hotel rooms on top of the mountain, and build the largest military base on the outskirts of Mukaber, not to mention American Street, as a settlement project and part of the Eastern Ring Street, which devoured hundreds of dunams of the lands of Umm Tuba, Sur Baher, Sheikh Saad, and Mukaber. And Silwan.

Al-Mukabbir is like a major human bloc in the city, along with the villages of Silwan and Sur Baher, and as obstacles to the Judaization of the city. They must be broken up and communication between them prevented, through intensifying settlement, ethnic cleansing, and the establishment of settlement outposts that prevent communication between them, as well as the demolition and displacement of the largest number of homes, thus Judaizing the southern gate of Jerusalem. With the projects to Judaize the Northern Gate, reviving the western and eastern Sheikh Jarrah and Wadi al-Joz, he places the Old City between the jaws of Judaizing settlement pincers, and turns the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem into scattered islands in a wide Israeli ocean.

At the beginning of 2022, the Entity Municipality notified the residents of Al-Mukkaber that it would begin demolishing 130 Jerusalemite homes, 62 of which were located within the reach of the American Street, and 70 other houses under the pretexts and pretexts of unlicensed construction. To counter this decision in February and March of 2022, the people of Al-Mukkaber carried out a series of demolition. Protest activities and events include prayers in the town’s stadium on Fridays in the thousands, and protest stops in front of the entity’s municipality, to prevent the escalation and continuation of these protest activities and their development, and the possibility of them becoming a launching pad for a broad popular popular movement that includes all neighborhoods of the city of Jerusalem, and in a way that would confuse the entity’s government. It exposes it to widespread international criticism, and distorts its image before world public opinion, with pictures broadcast of demolished houses, on the ruins of which children stand, who have become homeless, searching for the rest of their books, notebooks, toys, and memories under the rubble of their homes. The Entity Municipality decided to freeze the demolition decisions for a year, and asked the residents to Carrying out licensing operations for homes threatened with demolition, it realizes that the complex and insurmountable licensing procedures will not enable anyone to license their home. The main goal of the entity’s municipality was to relieve the state of public tension and anger. With the formation of the extreme right-wing government and the Jewish Kahanism, the issue of demolishing homes for Jerusalemites in Jerusalem has emerged again. The city of Jerusalem (22,000) Jerusalemite homes without a permit, especially with the extremist Ben Gvir assuming responsibility for what is known as national security in the entity state, provided that he begins the immediate demolition of 14 houses from the Jabal Mukaber gate, as the Mukaber is a strong link that by breaking it, the road becomes clear for carrying out demolition operations. In other villages and towns of Jerusalem, with the demolition of the first five homes, commercial facilities, and sheep barns, and in light of the threat of completing the demolition plan, the people of Jabal al-Mukaber, through their youth movements and clans, developed their positions and field initiatives to stop the policy of demolition against their homes, which means expelling and displacing them, as happened in On Tuesday, 1/31/2023, all aspects of life were disrupted in the town of Jabal Mukaber, closing it completely with barricades, burning tires, and stones, as well as pouring oil on the streets and roads to prevent bulldozers, bulldozers, and occupation forces from moving and advancing towards the homes threatened with demolition, not to mention that a human chain surrounded The house threatened with demolition, and in the face of this situation, the entity state retreated from demolishing the house threatened with demolition, in order to wait for the appropriate opportunity and moment, to resume its attack again.

As for the Shuafat camp experience, after the assassination of Uday al-Tamimi, the perpetrator of the specific operation at the camp checkpoint, and the entity’s army’s siege and invasion of the camp, and the practice of all forms of oppression and abuse against its residents, the camp residents declared a state of civil disobedience, stopping all aspects of life in the camp, from Disrupting the educational process and transportation, preventing workers from going to work, closing shops, etc. This camp, which was subjected to siege and hosted the LSH, forced the entity’s government after six days to yield to the demands of the residents and lift the siege on the camp.

In my experience with Al-Makbar and Shuafat Camp, the role of the popular and mass movement in imposing its conditions on the entity state is clear. Likewise, the popular movement with all its components, including youth, forces, institutions, and clans, played on the same chord, and the leaders of the protest movement and manifestations of civil disobedience seemed united and cohesive, and had specific demands and goals. It is clear, not to mention the great state of cohesion between all the people of the town and the camp... We also found that innovations in the field, in the issues of closure and forms of resistance, and the achievements that have been achieved and are being achieved, contribute to accumulating those achievements and successes and development in the methods and forms of popular resistance, and these popular forms of resistance that have defeated With the strength of the tank walls, it would have taken on a comprehensive and general dimension, if there had been forces, factions, and the official institution who had picked up on these initiatives, built on them, and developed them.