Before the ink was dry on which the Aqaba Agreement was written, which sought truce in the occupied Palestinian territories, the situation on the ground in the West Bank erupted in a manner consistent with the declaration of Israeli leaders’ adherence to their settlement and escalation plans far from this agreement, and in accordance with warnings issued by many Palestinian factions and forces regarding not The sincerity of the current extremist Israeli government, especially in light of the international community's failure to support the Palestinian people.
Barely a few hours had passed since the signing of the Aqaba Agreement, which brought together Israeli and Palestinian security and political leaders, in the presence of their Jordanian and Egyptian counterparts and American officials, when the Israeli occupation forces invaded cities in the West Bank and martyred their children.
On the other hand, the occupation forces did not move a finger towards attacking settler villages in the city of Nablus and burning Palestinian homes, farms and property in response to the killing of a settler, while the Palestinians responded by killing a settler and another Israeli in two separate operations, which raised a question about the scenarios towards which the political scene is heading. The region, and will the coming days witness more explosions in the situation, or are there other regional and international powers that can impose calm, even if temporarily?
According to the point of view of the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti, the Aqaba understandings were stillborn, justifying that because the Israeli side did not want calm and constantly lied. "After the Aqaba meeting, it carried out a brutal massacre, which it described as a fascist, racist and extremist settlement attack."
William Barghouti - in statements to the “Beyond the News” program on 27/2/2023, the Palestinian Authority, because it succumbed to pressure and accepted the withdrawal of the draft rejection of settlements from the Security Council a few days ago, then returned and accepted participation in the Aqaba meeting, although it has been aware for many years that the United States The United States will not abandon standing by the Israeli side and will not do justice to the Palestinians, so he called on the authority to abandon all agreements and understandings it concluded with Israel and to place the world before its responsibilities.
Al-Barghouti stressed that the Palestinian people have been living in a state of intifada in the form of successive waves since 2015, "when they realized the failure of political projects, and that the Zionist movement does not want a compromise with the Palestinians."
He also stressed that the fascists in the Israeli government aim, through the escalation, to annex the West Bank as well as to deport the Palestinians.
Al-Barghouti expressed his conviction that the situation is heading for a further explosion in the coming days.
To a large extent, the director of the Jerusalem Center for Israeli Studies, Imad Abu Awad, agreed - in his interview with "Beyond the News" - with what Barghouti went to, and said that the current Israeli escalation is nothing but an attempt to resolve the conflict against the Palestinians by eliminating the people and the resistance together.
On the Palestinian level, Abu Awad saw that the political and economic reality witnessed by the Palestinian street and the absence of a Palestinian leadership that could unify it and present a vision to the regional and international parties exacerbate the situation, and this is what caused - from his point of view - a collision between the two sides and a continuous escalation that cannot be controlled.
The expert on United Nations affairs, Abd al-Hamid Siam, was not optimistic about the status of the Palestinian file at the United Nations, describing it as dysfunctional and not serving the interests of the Palestinians. Nothing, calling on the Palestinians to protect themselves.
Regarding the security system in Israel, former US national security advisor David Bolger explained that the behavior of armed settlers leads to provocation of the Palestinians and the implementation of many resistance operations, considering that the Israeli security establishment feels powerless, because it is unable to control the settlers' "provocative" actions.