The Silver Lining in Govermental Pain  by Zafer AlKhateeb

Yes, the recent strategy of the Ministry of Labor unconsciously helped generate Palestinian vitality and ensured Palestinian uniformity behind the slogan of “Rights and Nothing but Rights” which could be read as a real and realistic possibility of turning the problem into a Palestinian opportunity after the Palestinians were plunged into a sea of ​​Palestinian division, the Arabs’ degradation, the collapse of global values, ​​and the inhuman practices in dealing with them in Lebanon.

This is at the beginning of the news, as for its content, there is much to be said and in the article of what will be said, there should be set the characters, the comma, and concluding period. The first thing that should be done to uncover the truth is analyzing the Ministry of Labor’s step or the strategy of the Minister of Labor and going towards the political implications because everything ends at politics. Then, the return to the Palestinian level where lies the necessity for movement and action. There is a need to set the collective Palestinian hour at the time of existential danger as a regulator of Palestinian mobility.

And the analysis is not effective if it is not based on important questions that consider the political mentality in Lebanon and its complicated structures where part of it floats on the surface of the Lebanese sea and the other is in locked vaults or behind the scenes.

The first of these questions is related to the form and strategic content of the Ministry of Labor which deals with foreign employment (the Palestinian here is counted as a foreigner) or in the traditional Lebanese sense of some Lebanese he is a (stranger). According to the chronological order of these questions in ascending order, the following questions can be asked:

• The personality of the Minister and his political background
• The Minister’s political point of reference (the party to which he belongs)
• Has this strategy been implemented independently of the reference to authoritative reference?
• Is it for the Lebanese interest or is there a political goal for the authoritative reference, especially considering what has been said about (Bazaar of populist auctions), or is it intersecting with regional interests and above?

 

However, to turn the threat, the problem was transformed into an opportunity. One of the features of the last ministerial step is that it:

• Accomplished an emotional Palestinian unity in Lebanon since every camp is under attack, not just that but all the Palestinians within the camps and outside are equal under the Lebanese law.
• Placed the Palestinians in front of the Lebanese authority, not in the face of the security apparatus, which reinforces the political, constitutional, economic, and social context of the crisis in the Lebanese-Palestinian relationship.
• Rediscovered the collective Palestinian will at record speed. The activists in the Palestinian society, those who know its affairs, understand the internal crisis that the camp was suffering from which has led to the loss of the compass and pushed it towards the internal expectation or the alienation from the act and the interaction on its cause and its main issues.

Considering this, the Palestinian leadership should act quickly and absorb the Palestinian movement by providing adequate political cover on the assumption that they are good representatives of the Palestinian society. This will not be done without understanding the essence of the Palestinian movement and its basic demands. Those who separate the Palestinian movement from the demand to live in dignity are making a mistake; in addition to those who believe that the reason behind the movement is attached to the ministry of Labor. This understanding is a grave diminishment which will only develop a new depression.

The Palestinian has suffered a lot from the rise of the populist rise in Lebanon. The Palestinian leadership was supposed to sense the impending existential danger by observing the position of the Palestinian in the populace speech. This speech creates an Extreme rule of conduct (The presence of strangers in the Lebanese society), which warns of new procedures Other than those of the Ministry of Labor.

Therefore, to direct the Palestinian protest effort to achieve a reasonable level of its objectives, it should:

• Investing the Palestinian emotional moment (reaction) in the context of the Lebanese priorities’ sensitivity and considerations.
• Pushing the slogan of “All rights for the Palestinian refugees” and not being satisfied demanding the withdrawal of the minister’s or the ministry’s strategy, considering that the contradiction with the Lebanese authority (resettlement and non-recognition of the Palestinian presence), secured the cover of the Ministry of Labor.
• Holding a Palestinian conference for all political, economic, and social actors … There should emerge from it a daily management cell and field leaders, in this regard, we can benefit from the experience of the first Intifada in Palestine.
• Establishing a program that defines the Palestinian demands based on the positive political, economic, social interaction with the Lebanese society.
• Providing a supportive and friendly Lebanese cover, and so far, there have been positive attitudes rejecting the procedures and demanding civil and social rights. therefore, we can work on a parallel Lebanese conference in support of the Palestinians.

The leadership has its elements and conditions. The first is to be the eye, the heart, and the tongue of the people, and the locus of public interest in their demands. The Palestinian leaders must be at the level of this Palestinian moment, or the field leaders must rush to create their field bodies as a true expression of the Palestinian individual.