In the Name of Allah, the Ever-Merciful

In partnership with the Center for Political and Development Studies, PALM Strategic Initiatives Centre held a workshop on 12/2/2020 titled ‘Deal of the Century: Its Future and Response Mechanisms”. Several intellectuals, cultured and specialists attended and participated in the discussion. The workshop was concluded with recommendations that covered military, diplomatic, political, economic, cultural and social aspects.  

The following remarks must be emphasized first:

It is imperative:

1. That Palestinians have the hope, will and belief in the inevitable defeat of the occupation. They must be certain of the liberation of Palestine through strong faith, righteousness, unity and Jihad.
2. To emphasize that the Palestinian cause is a just cause, not an economic one.
3. To define the Palestinian lands as occupied rather than ‘disputed’.
4. Not to call Trump’s plan a ‘Deal’, but to circulate it as ‘the Israeli-American Plan’, for instance.
5. For scholars to refute and debunk the constituents of the Plan, and respond to and expose the historical and religious falsifications. The responses to the Plan must be carefully studied and must address the issue comprehensively not partially.
6. To prevent the occupation from limiting our options and responses.

First: Military Recommendations

Executed by the resistance, factions and commissions, the following should be done:

1. Activating all forms of Palestinian resistance in the occupied lands, and showing readiness to pay the ultimate price for freedom.
2. Initiating full-scale confrontations with the occupation - since the latter targets all types of lands and oppresses Palestinian rights - within the boundaries of conflict management.
3. Creating insecurity and instability in the occupied lands, because the occupation responds only to pressure. Affecting the occupation’s security and creating diversion may be enough to deter it.
4. Activating the role of the people of the West Bank and the occupied lands of 1948 to exercise pressure on the enemy by all means possible.
5. Mobilizing the public locally and internationally, so the Palestinians’ rejection of the occupation and the policies of the US are heard worldwide.

Second: Political and Diplomatic Recommendations

Executed by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and Fatah; the following should be done:

1. Exploiting the opportunities offered by the International Community even if temporarily, and cooperating with international entities to exercise pressure on the occupation to adhere to the resolutions as long as they serve our cause, and ensure all our rights.
2. Denouncing Oslo Accords and declaring their failure as they have only served the interests of the occupation.
3. Ending the internal division, and forming a political and national partnership to face the Israeli-American Plan, where the Palestinian decision is taken under the umbrella of the PLO provided it is reformed and restructured.
4. Ending any normalization or coordination between the Authority and the occupation, redefining the occupation as the enemy, and eliminating any excuse for Arab or Islamic organizations for their normalization with the occupation.
5. Exercising pressure on the occupation and its allies, and organizing campaigns that expose the crimes the occupation and Trump’s Administration commit against the Palestinians.
6. Emphasizing the impossibility of the implementation of such plan to the occupation and the USA, and changing the circumstances which tempted the Plan makers into making such move.
7. Holding the leadership accountable for failing to manage the conflict for over than 25 years.
8. Raising the political demand to include all the Palestinian rights and the unity of Al-Quds. The current demands regarding Al-Quds represent only 15% of its total.

Third: Economic Recommendations

Executed by the Palestinian Authority, institutions and powers inside Palestine and abroad, the following should be done:

1. Achieving economic freedom and liberating from the occupation’s control, and ending any agreements (like the Paris Protocol) that hinder the Palestinian economy from growing.
2. Supporting BDS movement and encouraging national products.
3. Supporting the people’s steadfastness in Gaza through the just distribution of funds to stop people from individual attempts of escape such as immigration.
4. Supporting the people of Al-Quds and the West Bank financially to encourage them, activate their role and help them pay their debts so that they would not sell their lands or immigrate. 

Fourth: Cultural and Media Recommendations

Executed by the Palestinian factions; public commissions; ministries of Endowment in Muslim countries; and Arab, Islamic and world media; the following should be done:

1. Mobilizing the Palestinian efforts and potentials in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the refugees’ camps.
2. Organizing awareness campaigns inside and outside Palestine to raise people’s awareness about the just cause of Palestine and the occupation’s crimes against civilians in order to isolate and cast away the occupation.
3. Reaching a common ground on the minimum standards of values and national demands (Al-Quds, the refugees, the borders, the prisoners… etc.).
4. Mobilizing the public supporting the Palestinian cause to reject the plan worldwide. 
5. Directing world media towards toppling the Plan and supporting the Palestinian rights.
6. Raising the awareness of Muslims regarding the wrongness of visiting Al-Quds during its occupation.

Finally, PALM Strategic Initiatives Center hopes that the decision-makers take these recommendations into consideration and do what best serves our homeland and people, and prevent the implementation of the Plan which aims to end the Palestinian cause.

List of Attendees and Participants:

1. Dr. Yusuf Rizqa (Former Minister of Media and Professor of Journalism at the Islamic University). 
2. Dr. Ibrahim Al-Zaeem (Director of PALM Strategic Initiatives).
3. Mr. Mohammed Nadir An-Nuri (Director of Cinta Gaza Malaysia).
4. Mr. Mohammed Hamada (Specialist in the Israeli affairs).
5. Mr. Bilal Abu Daqqa (political activist).
6. Mr. Hussam Shaker (Austria).
7. Mr. Hussam Ayesh (Intellectual).
8. Mr. Rola Eliyan (Academic and journalist). 
9. Mr. Salah Abdul Ati (Lawyer and political researcher). 
10. Mr. Talal Okal (Writer and political analyst).
11. Dr. Ibrahim Habib (Academic and political writer). 
12. Mr. Ahmed Abu Ertima (Political writer and activist).
13. Dr. Amin Al-Rashid Yatiban (Malaysia).
14. Dr. Taiseer Moheisin (Academic and political analyst). 
15. Prof. Khalid Al-Khaldi (Professor of Islamic History at the Islamic University).
16. Dr. Rami Hussein (PhD in Education and political activist).
17. Prof. Zakaria Al-Sinwar (Professor of Modern History at the Islamic University).
18. Dr. Samia Al-Ghussein (Professor of Rights at Al-Azhar University).
19. Dr. Adnan Abu Amer (Head of the Political Sciences Department at the Ummah University).
20. Dr. Essam Adwan (Professor of Modern History at Al-Quds University).
21. Dr. Fayez Abu Shammala (Writer and political analyst).
22. Mr. Majed Al-Zebda (Political writer and activist).
23. Mr. Mohsen Abu Ramadan (Writer and economic analyst).
24. Mr. Mohammed Ridwan (Intellectual).
25. Mr. Mohammed Shamiya (Political activist).
26. Dr. Mosheer Amer (Professor of Linguistics at IUG and political researcher).
27. Mr. Mustafa Al-Sawwaf (Writer and political analyst).
28. Mr. Wissam Afifa (Director of Al-Aqsa Network and political writer).
29. Mr. Yusuf Ghaben (Political researcher and writer).
30. Dr. Abeer Thabet (Professor of Political Sciences at Al-Azhar University).
31. Mr.Saber Eliyan (Political activist).
32. Mr. Ramez Al-Halabi (Researcher in Islamic history and Palestinian affairs,  writer and political activist).