Afrasianet - Sharhabil Al-Gharib - Successive US administrations have tried to target the Palestinian resistance with a number of plans and conspiracies, most of which have adopted the option of preserving Israel's "security" in exchange for liquidating the resistance of the Palestinian people and their just cause.
Seventeen years ago, in 2007, the United States sent a security envoy to the occupied Palestinian territories to implement a security plan, then called General Keith Dayton's Plan, whose main goal was to rehabilitate, rearm and train the PA security services according to a security doctrine that preserves "Israel's security", aims to eliminate and pursue Palestinian resistance, and dismantles its infrastructure in the occupied West Bank.
General Dayton worked at the time to implement his plan in the Palestinian territories, and then headed an American team that included other nationalities, and began training members of the Palestinian security services, through direct funding from the US Congress, and the US administration spent $ 275 million at the time, while Gulf Arab countries contributed to the financing for the success of this plan.
The Biden administration, despite its preoccupation with major international and regional files, is once again interfering blatantly in the Palestinian arena, after an unprecedented round of American movement in the region recently, following the growing formation of Palestinian resistance groups, the escalation of Palestinian resistance action against the Israeli occupation and its settlers, specifically in recent months, and the success of the resistance in launching painful security strikes against the Israeli occupation army and its security system in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
Michael Finzel's plan, the US security coordinator, revealed by the American website "Axios", is summed up as summarized by General Dayton's plan, aimed at forming special Palestinian forces from the security services, subjecting them to high training, and arming them with the aim of reining in resistance groups in the Nablus and Jenin areas, in particular. The plan aims to restore the Palestinian Authority's control over the northern West Bank and enable it to pursue and eliminate armed resistance groups.
Israel directly approved the US plan, as approved by the Palestinian Authority, within an integrated American vision, presented to it after the Biden administration succeeded in convincing it to withdraw a draft resolution condemning settlements from the Security Council in exchange for some promises to calm Israeli measures, such as stopping settlement construction for months, temporarily stopping house demolitions in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, and providing a package of financial privileges and other facilities to the Palestinians, while ensuring the return of the Palestinian Authority to security coordination with Israel, which is the remaining security part of the The Oslo Accords de facto.
Successive US administrations have repeatedly tried to target the Palestinian resistance with a number of plans and conspiracies. The majority of them adopted the option of preserving Israel's "security" in exchange for liquidating the resistance of the Palestinian people and their just cause, and through the deliberate use of the PA security services in Ramallah as the main tool in implementation.
Over the past years, Israel, and the United States behind it, have bet on creating the new Palestinian, and may have succeeded, relatively, in convincing some Palestinians to accept coexistence with the Israeli occupation, according to a security doctrine based on protecting Israel's "security", fighting resistance and pursuing resisters. At that time, we cannot forget the pride expressed by General Keith Dayton, and the praise of a speech given by a Palestinian officer, at the graduation ceremony of one of the security courses supervised by Dayton personally, which revealed the truth of the doctrine Addressing the graduating officers, he said, "You didn't come here to learn how to fight Israel."
Over the years of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the new Palestinian generation has proven that it is going against all American and Israeli plans, and that the relative success, achieved in exceptional circumstances, has not been short-lived. The Palestinian has also proved, in word and deed, that he is not amenable to domestication or containment. He was more evident in his correct national doctrine during the battle of the Sword of Jerusalem in May 2021, and the ongoing rounds of conflict with the Israeli occupation that followed in the Palestinian arena.
General Dayton's plan recorded a major and clear failure to completely eliminate the structure of the Palestinian resistance, according to the US-Israeli calculations for which it was prepared. It also failed miserably to erase the idea of established resistance from the minds of the new Palestinian generation, and made the Palestinian mind invent tools, methods and means to make it maintain its permanence and continuity, which made "Israel" Powerless to confront it.
This is what we have seen in the various methods and means used by the Lions Areen groups, the Jenin Brigade and other Palestinian resistance formations. In addition to the shooting and individual vehicular attacks, which succeeded due to the insistence on the resistance approach and not surrendering in achieving a new confrontation equation, entitled the loss of personal security for the occupation army and its settlers. This confirms that the American and Israeli plans have not been able to end the idea of resistance in the Palestinian mind.
Historically, American plans to intervene in Palestinian affairs and conspire against its cause are not new, but began several decades ago in what was known as the project to settle Palestinian refugees. Thus, the plan of the security coordinator Wenzel, in accordance with the open US policy, in order to resume efforts to eliminate the resistance, pave the way for the occupation to liquidate the issue, integrate it into the region, and protect it from any accountability for its crimes, as one goal carried by those plans, which varied in their names and timings.
American plans are always in the interest of achieving Israeli security, and this is a strategic goal because Israel, since its occupation of Palestine in 1948, performs a functional state that is in harmony with the American vision in the region, and the main goal of the plans is to achieve a state of stability for the American project. This is explained by the Biden administration's recent dispatch of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his intelligence director to the region in order to achieve the same goal.
The US policy with the Palestinian Authority is based on the method of pressure, blackmail and the consolidation of the security equation in exchange for promises, in light of the fact that it does not have any cards of power that it can wave in the face of Israel's escalating crimes against the Palestinian people, their land and their holy sites. Like the state of official dependence and helplessness of the Palestinians, and the drift behind American plans, Israel's appetite remains more open to encroachment on the Palestinian people, and this situation comforts Israel, and behind it the US administration.
The PA's bet on US plans and projects to be a gateway to create conditions for reviving the political track and negotiations between it and Israel is a miscalculation par excellence. The ambitions of the far-right government are designed to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians, not to manage it, and they are becoming clearer than ever, and are increasing. Therefore, this bet is a bet on an illusion and a mirage, because, in the simplest sense, it contradicts the popular will and national unity on the ground in the West Bank, in which factions and formations have gathered. Military to resist occupation.
The resistance always surprises all parties that plan to eliminate it. In all stations, it was able to confuse his calculations, and the evidence is that those who are waging the resistance this time are waging it with new methods, i.e. unconventional resistance and unknown methods, are from the new Palestinian generation that is unknown to the Israeli security, since most of them do not belong to a specific Palestinian organization or faction, or there is great uncertainty about their affiliations, which prompted Netanyahu to admit, explicitly, that the recent operations constitute A security challenge for Israel, which has no solution, and this is what made him ask for help from the American administration, which rushed to the region with political and security envoys and plans, the main title of which is to eliminate the resistance .
The West Bank was and still is the central state of conflict with Israel, and the Palestinian people are living today in a more fierce stage in the confrontation with the occupation, as resistance among the new Palestinian generation has become a strategic choice, irreplaceable, as an option that is the most capable of curbing the ambitions and crimes of the Israeli coalition government, led by Netanyahu.
Finally, what Israel is unable to implement in the West Bank, on the ground, and in the face of the Israeli failure and inability to confront the new Palestinian generation, which has become an element of initiative and challenge in carrying out daring operations against the occupation forces and settlers, will not be able to achieve by any other force, even if it were the United States. General Michael Finzel's security plans are nothing but a new illusion of eliminating the resistance, and will not weaken its pace, which has been launched and escalating without retreat. On the contrary, the more the crimes of the occupation against the Palestinians, their land and their holy sites intensify, the more the flame of resistance against Israel will become.