Who doesn't want normality?

For years and years Palestinian Authorities - both from West Bank and Gaza - complained about restrictions of travel for Palestinians.
This year, during Ramadan, Israeli authorities allowed Palestinians from West Bank, in great numbers, to enter Jerusalem. Subsequently things went one more step along the road. Here is a report by French independent Gatestone Institute about allowing Palestinians to enter Israel
Crowds enter beaches and malls, visit Israel

It looks great - after all isn't that what we would like to see - people interacting, getting to know each other, not acting violently?

Apparently Israeli society and authorities as well as lots of common West Bank Arabs would - they seem to welcome the move and opportunities. But Palestinian authorities - both Fatah and Hamas - are furious. The picture of devil as they paint Israel to they subjects (as the concept of citizens is foreign to them) is crumbling. People see not the kind of regime they have at home, intent of murdering them for being Arabs (as Hamas murders for being Jew) or trying to control their thoughts. They see normal life and may take part in it - even if for a while. It may cause them to realise their hardship is brought upon them solely by their own "masters" (as no choice is really available to them).

It is classic confrontation of democratic society based on freedom with totalitarian one. Somehow Western governments didn't have (40 years ago, 30 years ago) to keep their citizens passports on police stations or in all other ways (shooting at Berlin wall for example) prevent them to enter communist paradise while the opposite was true. It is not about just communism - any totalitarian power trying to control people, have them think and do what is "the only just thing", design the new brave world and the new human being has to invent diabolical enemy and keep people from finding out and from freedom.
It is what Hamas and Fatah have been and are doing. It is the reason why opening Israel for Palestinians, even for a while, angered them so much.

Now - who wants peace and who doesn't? Read and decide for yourselves.....