(Zaman Alwasl)- Al Jazeera satellite channel Thursday hosts the prominent Arabic thinker Azmi Bishara to highlight recent developments over the Israeli offensive on Gaza strip which puts death toll at 700 Palestinians and more than 4,100 were wounded, mostly children and women.
In his previous two interviews, the General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies shed the light on the most critical points that undermined all efforts to stop the Palestinian bloodshed in more than two weeks as well as to reach a reasonable ceasefire that guarantees the legitimate rights of Gaza’s people who suffer severe siege by both sides, Israel and Egypt.
Hamza Mustafa, Zaman Alwasl’s writer, has summarized main points highlighted by Bishara:
1- Egypt bet on Israel's ability to defeat the resistance (Hamas).
2 - The Egyptian initiative, which sided with Israel, has failed in front of the resistant stubborn, what urged the United States' administration to look for other mediators.
3 – Officials of Turkey and Qatar have no initiative; just they delivered the resistance demands to the United States.
4- The Palestinian factions refuted media manipulation made by the Egyptian regime regarding the initiative.
5 - Egypt has sought through its initiative to put pressure on the resistance, in the same time it was like a lifeline to Israel.
6 - The initiative dealt with the resistance and Israel as equals and that was not fair to equal between aggressor and who defends his land and honor.
7 – The Palestinian resistance must struggle because it's a matter of life or death.
8 - Resistance accumulated experience and developed their capabilities and efforts of local self-pipes turned into missiles bombed Tel Aviv.
9 - The consequences of an Israeli ground military operation could be disastrous; for that it would be limited.
10 – All Palestinian parties are under threat, not only Hamas, as the Israeli aggression continues.
11 – Gazans decided to break the siege forever.
12- Palestine remains the central issue of the Arab people.
13- Palestinian Authority should accumulate all international efforts for fair investigation in Israeli crimes in Gaza through the International Criminal Court.
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Azmi Bishara is a prominent Arab writer and scholar. He has published numerous books and academic papers in political thought, social theory, and philosophy, including: Civil Society: A Critical Study (1996); The Arabs in Israel: A Vision from Within – A Reading in Obstructed Political Discourse (1999); From the Jewishness of the State to Sharon (2004); On the Arab Question: An Introduction to an Arab Democratic Statement (2007); Religion and Secularism in Historical Context (3 volumes 2011-2013); On Revolution and Susceptibility to Revolution (2012); The Army and Political Power in the Arab Context: Theoretical Problems (2017); Essay on Freedom (2016); Sect, Sectarianism, and Imagined Sects (2017); What is Salafism? (2018); The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Daesh): A General Framework and Critical Contribution to Understanding the Phenomenon (2018); What is Populism? (2019) and Democratic Transition and its Problems: Theoretical Lessons from Arab Experiences (2020). Some of these works have become key references within their respective field. While several books of his work are being translated to be published in English, his book Sect, Sectarianism, and Imagined Sects appeared in English (Hurst and Oxford University Press 2020).
As part of a wider project chronicling, documenting, and analyzing the Arab revolutions of 2011, Bishara has also published three key volumes: The Glorious Tunisian Revolution (2011); Syria's Via Dolorosa to Freedom: An Attempt at Contemporary History (2013) and The Great Egyptian Revolution (in two volumes) (2014). Each book deals with the revolution’s background, path, and different stages. In their narration and detail of the revolutions’ daily events, these volumes constitute a key reference in what is known as contemporary history along with an analytical component that interlinks the social, economic and political contexts of each revolution.
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