Saleh Al-Zahika

When any person who owns capital thinks about a project he is undertaking, he must conduct a feasibility study in which he sets a balance of profit and a balance of loss, and in light of the results drawn, he must either proceed with that project or abandon it.


Unbridled personalities whisper, either on their own initiative or pushed by one party or parties, to engage in an adventure or gamble, “municipal elections, if I may say so,” under the pretext that this will remove the harm from many Jerusalemites.


And mouthpieces begin to prepare for this, by publishing statements or writing articles denouncing the suffering of Jerusalemites, and publishing numbers and statistics about the amount of fines, violations, taxes, and fees that the municipality has imposed on them since 1967 until now, meaning since the occupation of the city, in a more correct sense, and as the proverb says, “a right that seeks a falsehood.”


We return to studying the feasibility of participating in the elections with the points of the balance of profit and loss. We find that the point of legitimizing the occupation’s decisions, whether in its parliament or its governments regarding the occupation, annexation, and Israeliization of the city, alone outweighs the balance of the major loss in this project. Other than that, the official statistics of the occupation government show that the percentage of the Muslim and Christian population in The Holy City is one-third, while the Jewish population is equivalent to two-thirds of the population in Jerusalem, both its eastern and western parts.


This is one side, and the other side complements the “Israeli” census, as half of the Palestinian Jerusalemites in Jerusalem are from the younger generation under the age of 24.


More precisely, in my opinion, this age group will not be interested in participating in these elections, because there are many priorities for this group other than this priority.


I am satisfied with this amount of futility because it does not and will not be in the balance or measure of the good of the Palestinian Jerusalemite, and with a humble opinion I suggest to every true lover of Jerusalem to search for an alternative, which exists and is within reach, supported by international legitimacy, and supported by the efforts and sacrifices that were made in Jerusalem in particular and the country in general. Namely, the re-election or formation of the Jerusalem Municipality Council. Do we not demand Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine?


What we lack is the will, direction, and pressure on the international community to help Jerusalem and its people eliminate injustice and discrimination in rights....


Think about this path, it is much easier than what you are going to take, just think about the common good from all aspects of its starting points.....


What you are aiming for will not be in the scales or scales of Jerusalem and its people