صحيفة نبض الشعب الاسبوعيه رئيس التحرير جعفر الخابوري

In an exciting and unprecedented event, on Wednesday evening, at the last minute, fees were paid and the names of a bloc that would participate in the Jerusalem municipal elections were deposited. Despite the importance of this event, the distance until the election results are released on the evening of Monday 30 next month (October) is long and full of thorns and challenges. The order of drafting the electoral program may be withdrawn, changed, and returned. But it can be said that after 56 years of boycotting the unified municipal elections of Jerusalem, the taboos have been broken, and the internal dispute will be over the arrangement of names, programs and other matters, while the principle of Palestinian participation in Jerusalem has become a reality today. There is still a long way for Maqdisi to become a member of a municipality, whose budget exceeds the budget of the entire Palestinian Authority. However, several matters must be clarified. The current Jerusalemite participation includes people from diverse social groups and geographical and gender distribution, but it is not a national or Islamic list and does not receive any sponsorship or support. Official from Ramallah, Gaza, or elsewhere, and this may be good, because the list and those in charge of it insist that their goal is service-based and not political, and that they support Palestinian constants, and want Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine, and for Jerusalemites to be included in general elections, according to the Oslo Accords and other agreed-upon matters. on her. The advantage of development finally comes from two things mainly: the absence of Jerusalem and its being ignored by everyone, despite giving the city endless verbal support. Regarding serious matters, such as budgets and others, there is nothing wrong with that. The matter applies to everyone, Palestinian, Arab and international, although there are exceptions to which the hat is raised, but in their entirety they do not amount to 1% of the real needs of Jerusalemites. It has become clear that talking about resilience will not work, without real funding for housing, education, the economy, tourism, culture, and