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Interview: Ali al-Jerbawi
by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
Thursday 13 April 2006 6:00 AM GMT
Ali al-Jerbawi believes Arab states will not help Hamas
Palestinian analyst Ali al-Jerbawi has warned that the Hamas-led
Palestinian government will collapse in three months unless it pays
the salaries of 140,000 government employees.
Ali Al Jerbawi, a political analyst and a professor of political
science at Bir Zeit university in the West Bank, is also the former
chairman of the Palestinian Elections Commission.
He believes Western pressure on the Palestinians was intended to
coerce them into handing over their rights to Israel, including the
right to have a viable and territorially contiguous state in the West
Bank.
His remarks coincided with American and European steps to cut
economic aid to the new government.
The following are excerpts of the interview.
Al Jazeera.net: Do you think the pressures against the Hamas-led
government will bring about its collapse?
Al-Jerbawi: This is the question that everybody is asking.
It is clear that these sanctions and pressures are aimed first and
foremost at aborting and corroding the Hamas-led government. The
disintegration of the PA itself is not the goal. The aim is to weaken
Hamas in order to pave the way for an Israeli-imposed solution.
The ultimate benchmark of the government is its ability to regularly
pay the salaries of the estimated 140,000 public servants and
government employees. If the government fails to pay the salaries, it
will collapse.
How would Hamas deal with this?
Hamas could decide to take the entire Palestinian Authority with it or
make it very hard or even impossible for any subsequent non-Hamas
government to rule.
Is this a realistic scenario?
I don't think that a movement that was elected by a huge majority a
few weeks ago would just agree to quit very easily.
We have to remember that the collapse of the government would also
entail the collapse of the parliament and the cancelling of the
elections. That would be a grave and paramount matter in any other
country.
What options does Hamas have?
They could resort to violence, in which case they would argue that
since the world didn't respect the outcome of the democratic game,
then armed struggle is the only way to restore Palestinian rights from
Israel.
I previously advised Hamas to form a government whose ministers would
not be affiliated with any political or resistance faction. This would
have saved Hamas a lot of trouble while at the same time allowing the
movement to retain its control of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Do you think Hamas will undergo a further radicalisation if the
present government collapses?
I don't think Hamas would move towards al-Qaeda. However, I repeat
that any movement that feels it is under attack will do everything it
can to make the tasks of its enemies very difficult to achieve.
What would be the regional ramifications of a prospective collapse of
the PA?
There would be a lot of desperation and outrage in the region and many
people would lose faith in Western democracy.
How is Israel affected by this?
Israel wants to see a quisling PA or at least a PA that is so weak but
not completely dead which would enable Israel to evade responsibility
towards the occupied people and at the same time continue to impose
unilateral measures on the Palestinians as Israel has been doing.
How do you think the Palestinians should react to this?
The Palestinians would think seriously of dissolving and ending the
Palestinian Authority because we can't allow ourselves to be in a
state of suspension, under the occupation on the ground, but "free" in
the eyes of much of the world.
Do you think the Arab states will help the Hamas government during
this financial crisis?
Are you serious? The Arab states didn't help [the late Palestinian
leader Yasser] Arafat when he was under siege for two years in
Ramallah.
These states won't help the present Palestinian government for two
main reasons: First, they are themselves under intense American
pressure and influence and seem unable to assert a sovereign policy
towards the Palestinians.
Second, they think that the success of the Hamas government is
dangerous for the stability of their regimes, given the Islamic or
Islamist nature of the present Palestinian government.
Where did Hamas go wrong?
They made a serious blunder when they appointed their top political
and ideological leaders as key ministers in the government. They also
made declarations which meant they climbed up to the top of the ladder
and had to come down and make concessions.
Do you think Hamas should recognise Israel but without a reciprocal
Israeli recognition of a Palestinian state, say within the 1967
borders?
Hamas shouldn't say: "I don't recognise Israel, period."
Hamas should say it is willing to recognise Israel if Israel is
willing to recognise a sovereign Palestinian state within the 1967
borders and allows the repatriation of Palestinian refugees. I think
the world community would receive such a stand with understanding and
less hostility.
Agencies
By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
You can find this article at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D5C2027B-00D3-494E-8B8A-
65950B5CC837.htm
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