I have long argued that the Jewish State has no intention of ever recognizing a Palestinian state. But for the first time Washington and the Zionist Enterprise are not talking out of the same mouth.
Headlines:
Clinton calls for ‘viable’ Palestinian state:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090203/pl_afp/mideastconflictuspalestinians
Likud Charter (Netenyahu) Does Not Recognize Palestine:
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/63973/likud-charter-does-not-recognize-palestine.html
Here, I thought I was the only one that clearly witnessed the machinations of the Zionists, but the Arab world took notice:
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s public snub of Israeli President Shimon Peres last Thursday in a television chat show on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum meet in the Swiss resort of Davos has caught the imagination of the Islamic world and cuts across the Shi’ite-Sunni divide. snip
“You are older than me and your voice is very loud. The reason for your raising your voice is the psychology of guilt. I will not raise my voice that much. When it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill. I know very well how you hit and killed children on the beaches.”
Gaza beach massacre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_beach_blast
Flashback to 2006, Bush and company pushed for elections in Palestine, making the argument that democracies will not make war on each other. His version of Bibi’s Clean Break Plan intended to reorganize the middle east. Hamas, an organization put aside it’s charter of fighting Israel, and providing services to it’s people, won the elections:
Jimmy Carter supervised the elections, international monitors observed a clean and democratic election:
BUT:
We know what happened next. To make a long story short, Israel and most of the international community refused to recognize Hamas as a legitimate party and then refused to recognize the newly-formed Palestinian unity government (formed in March 2007).
[this left Abbas no options, thereby creating a civil war]
Abbas, whose goal has always been to be recognized by the US and Israel, kicked Hamas out of the government and formed a new one with Salam Fayyad, a politician and economist made in the US, as PM. A violent pre-emptive war was launched by Hamas against Fatah and Israel/US-backed militias (led by Mohammed Dahlan) and Hamas “took over” the Gaza Strip.
[Israel has a history of killing Palestinian leaders and creating civil wars in Palestine]
Even if they reacted with surprise and strongly condemned this move, the US and Israel had reached one of their long-term objectives in Palestine. “Divide and Rule” (a strategy used with great success by the US in the course of its history) was back on again with the West Bank becoming the respectable (read: cooperative) Palestinian Authority territory and Gaza turning into the Islamic and evil Hamastan.[I make a note here, Bush’s delusions were that he would be able to create a Palestine state as his legacy, thereby accomplishing what no other American president had done. BUT, he was outfoxed by the Zionist Enterprise with their never ending carrots [bail and switch], and Bush did not realize he had been had till his last year in office. Iran “was” on the schedule, but Bush realizing what had happened finally said “no” to Israel for the first time. He refused to sell the bombs Israel needed to take out Iranian nuclear plants and Bush refuse to sent more soldiers to fight Israel’s wars. Israel politicians screeched, to no avail.
To continue the story:]An internationally-supported Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip followed and once more, to cut a long story short, the Gaza “war” was launched in December 2008 by Israel. We are here today, more than 1,300 Palestinians dead and 5,000 injured later.
But why did all this happen? What was the official reason given by the Israel and the International community for not recognizing Hamas?
The reason they gave was that Hamas refused to recognize Israel and had a Charter calling for the destruction of the Jewish state.
Everyone (politicians and corporate media leaders) accepted this without asking a few important questions. [ I did not and wrote about it on daily kos, and this is the real reason I was banned] Which Israel should Hamas recognize? Israel has not yet stated what its international borders are. Should Hamas recognize the Israel of 1948? The Israel of 1967? The Israel of 2009 with its apartheid wall, settlements (settlements building raised by 60 percent in 2008, the year of the Annapolis “Peace Process”, according to a Peace Now report), second class Arab citizens and with East Jerusalem annexed?
Any astute observer could also have objected by reminding people that Hamas (through Haniyeh and Meshal) had said many times over that it was willing to accept Israel as a political entity on the 1967 borders. You do not have to look hard for this, it was stated in the Guardian, Washington Post, amongst others, meaning that Hamas was now in line with most of the international community, accepting a two-state solution.
And so where are we now the political party of Bibi is about to come into power AGAIN:
In the “Peace and Security” chapter of the Likud Party platform, a recent document (1999) it says initially that:
“Peace is a primary objective of the State of Israel. The Likud will strengthen the existing peace agreements with the Arab states and strive to achieve peace agreements with all of Israel’s neighbors with the aim of reaching a comprehensive solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
But then it says about settlements:
“The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting.”
Therefore annihilating the slightest chance of a two-state solution.
On Palestinian self-rule it says:
“The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel’s existence, security and national needs.”
Therefore annihilating any chance of seeing a Palestinian sovereign state.
On Jerusalem:
“Jerusalem is the eternal, united capital of the State of Israel and only of Israel. The government will flatly reject Palestinian proposals to divide Jerusalem, including the plan to divide the city presented to the Knesset by the Arab factions and supported by many members of Labor and Meretz.”
Therefore annihilating any chance for future peace negotiations because east Jerusalem as capital of a future Palestinian state is non-negotiable for any Palestinian.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=30203
And what will Bibi’s bail and switch be now, the US has to take out Iran before he will negotiate on Palestinian state. You bet ya.
Meanwhile, Bibi is making war on Arabs living as Israel second hand citizens, their NEW War on Terror:
Speaking at the third annual Herzliya conference, Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his audience: “It is not the Palestinians who pose a demographic threat, since one day they will benefit from self-determination, but the Israeli-Arab population. The most important thing is maintaining the Jewish majority in the country and improving the economy to encourage more Jews from the Diaspora to immigrate.” If the Palestinians in Israel “reach 35 to 40 percent of the Israeli population, Israel will become a state with two nationalities,” he said. Palestinians currently represent more than 20 percent of the total population in Israel.
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Rachel Benziman, sent a letter to the minister, in which she strongly protested his reference to a fifth of Israel’s citizens as no more than a “demographic problem”. ACRI demanded that Palestinian citizens in Israel be recognized as human beings that are entitled to all the rights due to any citizen of the state. “Comments, like those made by the minister today, fan the flames of hatred, racism, and discrimination” that are the daily reality for Palestinians in Israel, and “undermine the basic trust that underpins a democratic society”, ACRI said. In the same statement ACRI stated that it could not “overstate the importance of the moral and legal duty of the government to respect all its citizens, to ensure their equal treatment, and to block any attempts to compromise any individual’s status.”
Earlier this year the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights expressed its concerns about the “continuing difference in treatment between Jews and non-Jews, in particular Arab and Bedouin communities, with regard to their enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights” and reiterated its concern that the “excessive emphasis upon the State as a ‘Jewish State’ encourages discrimination and accords a second-class status to its non-Jewish citizens” (1998 concluding observations, para. 10).
This discriminatory attitude is apparent on the ground when one examines the lower standard of living of Palestinians in Israel — the result of higher unemployment rates, restricted access to and participation in trade unions, lack of access to housing, water, electricity, health care and a lower quality education system. Moreover, the indigenous population — Bedouins in particular — continue to be subjected on a regular basis to land confiscations, home demolitions, fines for building “illegally”, destruction of agricultural crops, fields and trees, and systematic harassment and persecution by the Green Patrol, in order to force Bedouins to resettle in “townships”.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2280.shtml
Let’s hope Obama does not fall for Bibi’s bait and switch.