There could be no peace as long as Jews
continue to build on the land where Palestinians want to create a future
state. The Zionists had unlawfully occupied a huge area of Palestinian
land by terror and force even before 1947 UN Partition Plan. The
European powers backed by the US made the illegal Zionist occupation of
Palestine to become ‘legitimate’ through the United Nations, an
organization created to preserve the West’s hegemony over the world.
Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud
Abbas wants Israel to return back to its pre-1967 border so that
Palestinians can have a state of their own in West Bank and Gaza with
East Jerusalem as its capital. No sane person would believe that a
temporary freeze in Israeli settlements on these lands could make the
Palestinians to realise their dream.
Mahmoud Abbas says that he will not
attend peace talks unless the Israelis stop settlement construction in
all of the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem. Should Mr
Abbas return to peace talks if Israel were to put another 10 month
moratorium on settlement construction? Israel has made it clear that
settlement construction works will continue with or without peace talks.
Israel has annexed East Jerusalem and declared that the whole of
Jerusalem is indivisible and eternal capital of Israel. The third
holiest site in Islam, the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem is under
Israeli control. The Jews are planning to destroy the mosque with the
pretext of finding the foundation of Solomon’s Temple underneath it. In
East Jerusalem, Palestinian families are forced to evacuate their homes,
making way for Israelis to take ownership of them. Therefore,
Palestinians have no reason to negotiate for peace; they have nothing
more to lose, they have already lost everything.
Israelis fear of having to make any
concessions concerning the occupied territories. To overcome this fear,
the United States is ready to offer Israel written security guarantees
to help re-start peace negotiations. The written offer would formalise
understandings reached earlier last month between the two countries. It
also includes providing Israel 20 F-35 stealth jets.
PLO led Palestinian Authority is not in a
strong position to bargain with Israel. Israel expects them to accept a
sort of peace settlement without having to give up any territories.
This is a sort of solution unacceptable even to Palestinian moderates
such as PLO, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Israel regards Hamas, Hizbollah along
with Iran and Syria as extremists or terrorists hell-bent on destroying
Israel. Israel’s failure to reach a negotiated peace settlement with the
moderates is blamed on the ‘extremists’. Israel continued to violate
the Oslo Accords signed with the Palestinians in September 1993 and the
agreement had been dead for more than a decade. The Israeli policy
makers believe that an independent Palestinian state means the end of
Israel.
Based on what the Zionists have done in
the past, it could be said they are not interested in achieving a
lasting peace but only want to buy time to continue their settlement
construction in occupied Palestinian lands.
_____________________________________________________Written by: Ibrahim Nazim
2 December 2010, Thursday
26 Zulhijjah 1431
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