The "scandal" of donors not paying their dues to rebuild Gaza, as Serry described it, under the pretext that the PLO government does not control the Gaza Strip, is a green light given by the international community to the occupation state to carry out another military assault on national resistance forces in Gaza.
The scandal of Arabs not paying their pledges at Arab summits to provide the PA with a financial "safety net" amounts to flagrant Arab pressure on the PLO to accept the Quartet's proposal to restart talks with the occupation state "as soon as possible".
This is Mladenov's dual mission as the new UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process. PLO negotiators continue to wait for a breakthrough by "peace" envoys that are imposed on them and appointed by the US and the UN, although they represent the occupation state. Mladenov is the most recent. He will not change anything on the ground.
This article was translated from Arabic and first published by Al-Ahram Weekly on 20 February 2015.
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