The Palestine Papers: The Ultimate Confirmation of Israeli Intentions.
The cables released last night by Al Jazeera, which form the Palestine Papers, have provided ultimate confirmation of what many on the ground have known for some time – Israel is not interested in an equitable two state solution. Instead Israel is interested in maintaining the status quo, which necessarily means that both Palestinian and Israeli society will be in a permanent state of war. Control of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and the separation of the West Bank from Gaza is the form of the Israeli-imposed one state solution. Crippling land annexation in the form of settlement expansion and development of Israeli infrastructure permanently change the facts on the ground while the United States, the main broker in the region, remains deftly silent. This continues while Israel informs the world that there is no Palestinian partner for negotiations and refuses to even provide documents detailing the Israeli bottom line.
This is not a new story, it has been happening for years. We now have ultimate confirmation that this is what was happening behind closed doors. However, I am left with a lingering and specific question regarding the United States. During negotiations regarding Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority was ready to give up part of the contentious East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Israel simply rejected the offer and began moving settlers into Palestinians homes in the neighborhood. Apparently the Israeli rationale was that the Palestinians were ready to give it up, might as well move settlers in, create facts on the ground and force them to ‘give up’ different territory. A simple land grab. What is striking is that the United States monitored this entire process. American officials were aware of the Palestinian offer and then watched in relative silence while Israel created a new settlement. Hilliary Clinton did deplore the actions of Israel in Sheikh Jarrah but the language was more tempered than that of the Europeans who literally watched the take over from their consulates in the neighborhood.
We are left with a number of revelations that are not surprising or new. Israel is not interested in an equitable two state solution, preferring a one state in which the Palestinians are controlled without democratic recourse. The Palestinian Authority is an effective instrument of Israeli occupation which is not representative of Palestinians. Finally, the United States is a dishonest broker who is acting like Israel’s lawyer and main supplier of aid. Again nothing new, now we just have concrete proof. These documents do not represent the death of the two state solution, they show that it never really began.
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Amerikagulag said,
January 24, 2011 at 21:20
Genocide, pure and simple.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/05/10/the-shrinking-map-of-palestine/
Truthman said,
January 25, 2011 at 01:55
I am so glad to see people waking up. It is certainly way past time. Virtually EVERYTHING you believe is a lie. These guys are good.
Peace and love and truth.
Donna said,
January 25, 2011 at 03:49
Well said.
Ladybat2 said,
January 25, 2011 at 04:29
Ya know.
This is the kind of crap that makes me just wanna throw in the towel. How the hell can we keep fighting for a people who won’t fight for themselves?
Abbas and his Fatah government have to go.
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mikael said,
January 25, 2011 at 10:20
Its the consept, negotiation, thats the bigg elefant on the rom. Its has been a neverending list of negotiations, year after year, decade after decade.
Thats watt its about. Who is to blame, absolutly not the Palestinians thru all this years, but everybody els. USA and the leading countrys in the West, did nothing, ecsept, negotiating. Every time, a problem arises, and a ballet of semantic swirrwels begins, and thru canapees and coctaile, they negotiat.
Decade after decape, and for the Palestinian, the situation is detiriorating.
And even now, nothing happens.
Look at the factual realitys on the ground, thats reality, not lingering in trivial gossip, and the wikileak documents states opinions, not factual cases or realitys on the ground.
A sidetrack, simply.
A nev chapter to the neverending ocupation, kept alive, by more negotiations and semantic.
Remember its been going on for over 60 years now.
Palestinian peoples are suffering, while we sircle around yeasterdays news,
and creating new spinoffs and start new ngotiations.
And the only way out is, is the Unification of the Arab people.
The is no other way.
“The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!”
— Douglas MacArthur
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George said,
January 25, 2011 at 12:35
“We must define our position and lay down basic principles for a settlement. Our demands should be moderate and balanced, and appear to be reasonable. But in fact they must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them. Then we should manoeuvre and allow him to define his own position, and reject a settlement on the basis of a compromise solution. We should then publish his demands as embodying unreasonable extremism.” – General Yehoshafat Harkabi, Ma’ariv, 2 November 1973.