Nadene Goldfoot
Samer shares his personal journey—from growing up in Jerusalem to becoming a key figure in the dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis. He discusses frustrations with current leadership, including Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas, and the need for a new, accountable leadership that prioritizes peace, prosperity and real change. He reveals how Palestinians, particularly the younger generation, are pushing for a shift away from the divisive and ineffective politics of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
Throughout this thought-provoking conversation, Samer explains his efforts to bridge gaps with Israelis, his call for leadership reform and his bold stance against violence, even while confronting the harsh realities of ongoing conflict. He emphasizes the importance of understanding each side’s fears and needs, advocating for mutual respect and a focus on constructive solutions.
Samer’s message is one of hope, calling for the Palestinians to take responsibility and make the internal changes necessary to secure a peaceful future. (Since 1967 and the meeting in Khartoum, Africa with the NO PEACE; NO RECOGNITION; NO WAY, )Palestinians need to do the opposite and throw out that sworn statement of the Arab members.
I watched the interview and was very impressed with Samer, but as I thought about his message, thought the Palestinians have had this chance almost for eons, and they threw it away each time. From Arafat to Abbas, they've had the idea of taking over all of Israel without any Jews in it. He seems to have the right ideas and I only wish the other Palestinians could think like he does. If they did, they never would have gone along with Arafat in the first place, and then Hamas, the outgrowth of Fatah which Abbas has been directing since taking over for the past 70 years. The worst thing has happened to our slim possibility of a friendship to become a neighbor; October 7th, 2023. Nothing could have been worse. It was in the plans for years, our people have found out. Arabs who had known these Israelis, been in their homes working, then doing the savage killing spree that they executed; planned, looked foward to...... and heaven help us...the Europeans who want , still want a Palestine bordering Israel; taking away our original homeland of Judea and Samaria and giving it to the savages for a reward for their killing. Even the previous jury gave land in 3 sections; one for Araba, one for both and one for the Jews.
Do you know the difference between the Arabs and the Jews? Israel has about 20% of their population as Arabs; but in the Palestine there is to be not one Jew; it's to be like Saudi Arabia. Another thing to notice; Arab neighbors are huge plots of land with their huge name pasted across their great span of land. And Israel is so tiny you can't begin to get its name on the speck, It sits in the Mediterranean Sea on maps. Interesting. So now you want to again take away land originally promised as the Jewish Homeland and it is a reward for criminal behavior. If anyone was chosen for it's higher morality than others, it would not be the Europeans all for a Palestine touching Israel's border.
During World War II, the Nazi regime financed and facilitated anti-British and antisemitic broadcasts by the former Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, an Arab nationalist and prominent Muslim religious leader, to mobilize support for Germany and the Axis among Muslims in the Balkans and the Middle East. At the close of the war, al-Husayni was arrested in the French occupation zone of Germany. After authorities moved him to France, al-Husayni fled to Egypt, where he continued to produce and disseminate inflammatory anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish, and anti-Israel propaganda. He died in 1974. (Source record ID: E39 Nr.1033/17)
The conflict started with the Sherif of Jerusalem who was given this power and title by a Herbert Samuel in the British government. He certainly didn't know their mind at the time. Herbert Samuel was appointed the first High Commissioner for Palestine (which included Jerusalem) by the British government during the British Mandate. He served in this position from 1920 to 1925.
In 1921, Herbert Samuel, the British High Commissioner of Palestine, appointed Amin al-Husseini as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, not a sheriff. Samuel's decision to appoint al-Husseini as Grand Mufti, and his role in creating the Supreme Muslim Council which al-Husseini would lead, aimed to engage with Palestinian leadership and manage the complex political landscape during the British Mandate. Hajj Mohammed Amin El-Husseini (1893-1974 led the Arabs in gross attacks against the Jewish population. For this, he was sentenced to exile in 1937. He fled to Lebanon, and during WWII, participated in Rashid Ali's pro-Axis coup in Iraq before going to Europe where he helped Hitler and was responsible for the liquidation of the Jews in the Moslem areasof Bosnia before going to Egypt in 1946.
The legacy traces back a 1924 verbal agreement when the Supreme Muslim Council, the highest Muslim body in charge of Muslim community affairs in Mandatory Palestine, accepted Hussein bin Ali (Hashemite Sharif of Mecca) as custodian of Al-Aqsa. The Hashemites are descendants of Muhammad, who ruled over the Islamic holy city of Mecca for 700 years until they were ousted by the House of Saud in 1924. The custodianship became a Hashemite legacy administered by consecutive Jordanian kings. Sharif Hussein was buried in 1931 near the Al-Aqsa mosque where his funeral also took place.[
Samer Sinijlawi: Usually the [official political] opposition is a minority. When you are part of an opposition camp, it means that you are in the minority. In our case, the opposition is a majority. Ninety percent of the Palestinians are requesting that President Abbas leave political life, even better that he leave the country. If 90 percent are requesting this, they are in the opposition. This is the 90 percent who are requesting change.President Abbas has been dealing with six different American presidents, nine different Israeli prime ministers, and he couldn’t achieve anything with any of them. It means his strategy is broken. And it’s not only broken in terms of creating good dynamics in Israeli-Palestinian relations. It’s broken internally. He couldn’t improve the economy of the Palestinians. He couldn’t improve human rights. We have serious issues of freedom of speech. One Palestinian in 2021 was killed, Nizar Banat, because he dared to criticize Abbas. And he was killed while under arrest by the Palestinian security on the way to interrogation; he was hit on the head by iron bars and was killed. So we have serious issues.
To me, the younger people he used as examples haven't changed enough. They were all for the destruction of Jews, but the only feature showing change was that they didn't want to be the violent ones. Let someone else do it, they commented to Samer. That's not enough. I just hope he develops a following of many young Palestinians and he himself keeps to his present philosophy and doesn't give up. He has a good heart. He's got the respect of good Israelis.
Resource:
https://jstribune.com/interview-with-shadow-fatah-leader-samer-sinijlawi/
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