Opinion Editorials, October 2007
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The futility of betting on US for Peace in Palestine
By Khalid Amayreh
PIC, October 1, 2007
While logistical preparations are underway for the November peace conference, reportedly to take place in Annapolis, there are few signs, if any, suggesting that the much-heralded American sponsored effort will succeed in achieving what dozens of previous conferences, meetings, and initiatives failed to achieve.
In fact, nearly all key players who would participate in the conference or be invited to it are voicing deep skepticism as to the prospects of a breakthrough, mainly due to Israel’s persistent refusal to give up stolen Palestinian land and allow the thoroughly tormented Palestinian refugees, uprooted by ethnic cleansing, to return home.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he believed that the main goal of the upcoming conference shouldn’t be “peacemaking” but rather preparing the right environment for enabling true peacemaking to materialize.
Olmert’s peculiar understanding of “peacemaking” is being expressed in the unmitigated expansion of Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem where all resources and assets are utilized for the benefit of Jewish settlers while the native Palestinians are made to suffer for the purpose of forcing them to emigrate.
Moreover, it is hard to understand how Olmert and other Israeli leaders can reconcile the daily callous killings of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with any purported desire for peace on Israel’s part.
If seeing is believing, the phantasmagoric images of murdered Palestinian children, mutilated to pieces of scattered human flesh by heavy Israeli artillery bombardment of heavily-populated neighborhoods suggest that Israel is interested more in shredding the blood of Palestinian school children to pieces and less in pursuing peace.
But Israel does want to see a an open-ended process that would continue for as long as possible in order to have sufficient time to steal the remainder of Palestinian land and complete the Zionist plan of reducing Palestinian population centers into a close net of detention and concentration camps.
As to the Palestinian and other Arab players, it is sufficiently obvious that they are acting and behaving like beggars, not equal partners.
Indeed, while Israel was slaughtering his people in Gaza and denying Palestinians their natural right to access Muslim holy places in East Jerusalem , Fateh Chairman Mahmoud Abbas held another warm meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister who, in characteristic arrogance, told him that these Palestinian civilians, murdered by the Israeli war machine, were killed for the sake of peace. The Zionist official actually stopped short of asking Abbas to thank Israel for killing these helpless innocent victims.
Abbas did reiterate the overall Palestinian position that the key to peace was the resolution of the core issues that define the Palestinian problem, including the paramount issue of Palestinian refugees uprooted from their homes when Israel was created in 1948.
However, Abbas’s assertions will mean nothing if they are not backed up by hard political stands on the ground. But the fact that Abbas has been acting like a beggar, and for that matter an undignified one, shows that he either doesn’t mean what he says, or doesn’t say what he means.
As to other Arab players, they just mutter a few words about the need to make sufficient preparations for the conference and warn about the “serious consequences” awaiting the region in case the conference fails.
Not withstanding, these puppets will eventually travel to Annapolis, if only to please and appease their ultimate master. After all, slaves, like beggars, can’t be choosers.
The nearly total absence of good will on the part of the Zionist regime is not the only expected killer of the upcoming conference.
America’s unwillingness- and probably inability- to exert pressure on Israel to come to terms with UN resolutions makes it very difficult for any honest observer to expect any positive outcome from this conference.
In fact, the US, especially this ... administration, has always had a deep romantic involvement with Israeli criminality, fascism and territorial expansion.
Even a mild criticism of Israeli policies and behaviors would upset Washington and prompt President Bush to complain that the international community is unduly harsh toward Israel .
More to the point, apart from US complicity, there are real fears that the Bush administration may be using the upcoming conference as another show for hatching plans to attack a major Muslim country in the Middle East .
If so, the Arab regimes attending the conference would be justifiably seen as “accomplices” and quislings working in cahoots with the Bush administration against Iran .
Eventually, Arabs and Muslims, God forbid, would lose on both fronts, Palestine in the West, where Israel will continue to murder and strangle Palestinians and steal their land, and Iran, in the east, where another historical enmity between Persians and Arabs would be created, all because these authoritarian and irresponsible Arab regimes have chosen to prostrate and prostitute themselves before their masters.
The prospects of peace actually look bleak and very remote even if we presume the best of circumstances.
For those who have even rudimentary knowledge of internal Israeli politics, it is clear that even if the Bush administration decided to pressure Israel to be more forthcoming, Israel, e.g. the Olmert government, would say “No” and a new election would take place by which time the Bush administration would be in the final twilight days of its term in office.
Interestingly, the political mood in Israel has been going for a long time in a clearly fascist direction.
As to the question of what will happen to Kadima, the unauthentic party of Olmert, one doesn’t have to be a great political analyst to expect that party to collapse.
As to what can be done to protect Palestinian interests and preserve the enduring Palestinian cause from dilution and possible liquidation by the whoredom of the international system?
Well, Palestinian and Arab leaders should read some history books and see for themselves that even slaves can revolt against their masters.
I am saying that because as long as US interests are not harmed, or at least hurt, the American people will not press their government and Zionist-controlled senators and congressmen, to extricate American politics and policies from the Zionist stranglehold.
It is true, Palestine and Palestinians won’t be free from (the Israeli occupation) until and unless the American people and their government are free from AIPAC and the hateful Israel lobby.
Former President Jimmy Carter and some prominent symbols of the American academia have realized this cardinal reality. So, why can’t these Arab regimes see the same reality.?
Let them begin with some symbolic steps to liberate themselves from subservience to Zionist-controlled America. How about demanding Euros instead of dollars for their oil?
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