Obama’s call for the exclusion of Hamas from the talks is unacceptable and he is clearly following Netanyahu’s diktat’s. And he also refers to Hamas as a terrorist organization, once again toeing the parameters as set by Tel Aviv.
And pray tell, which Israel is the Hamas supposed to recognise is the simple question they are asking. Do we have a map of the state of Israel? None till date. Israel has not submitted a map to the UN till date. So will it be the Israel that was founded by the UN on the basis of Res 181 that gave 56% of the most fertile parts of Palestine to 30% of the migrant European Jewish population? Will it be the Israel prior to 1967, or on the borders of 1967 or with the Apartheid Wall & Settlements? Which Israel? No answers here.
Obama has also called for a “demilitarized state” to guarantee Israel’s “security”. And with the dubious record, who will guarantee a rogue Israel from running amok & invading an undefended Palestine, is something that does not bother Mr. Smart Speechmaker Obama.
There had been no progress when Fatah had taken the same position of isolating Hamas. The very fact that George Mitchell (Obama’s ME negotiator) resigned just prior to this new phase of Obama’s supposed initiative is telling sign, for the discerning.
The Settlements carried on & even the worst set of PA compromises were refused by Netnayahu as was evident from the Palestine Papers. Obama’s position on opposing the UN recognition of an Independent Palestine state (on the ’67 borders, as per UN resolutions & International Law) in September, is another example of his perfidy.
Netanyahu’s non-offer is the following. The facts have changed, the demographics have changed since 1967, so forget that option. Jerusalem will remain as the eternal capital. The Settlements will be part of the larger Israeli state. Israeli troops will continue to occupy the Jordan-West Bank border within the so-called state of bantustan Palestine. As for the Right of Return of the Refugees & UN Resolution 194, he just says, forget it. That is never going to happen
Basically we are now into the 2012 election mode & the US political system is at its weakest & most vulnerable state of affairs, as both parties queue up for election funds with their begging bowls.
And after the mid-term election of 2010, where Obama was taken apart, he has already struck a deal with the all-powerful & pervasive Zionist Power Configuration, of which the AIPAC is the most powerful lobby in the world. Obama’s is one of the weakest US presidents ever & despite his recent Rambo act, he fools nobody.
As for the Palestinian resistance, the unity agreements between the Fatah-Hamas has given a big boost to the morale of the masses within Palestine & all across the world.
The only way ahead is the Third Intifada. The only path by which any nation has achieved independence has been resistance. The negotiations with the Zionist Occupier have to be in coordination with the resistance on the ground. That is the only way & succeed we will. It’s only a matter of time before Palestine is free, before Jerusalem is free.
21 May, 2011
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