BLOG According to Secretary John Kerry: Abbas, and not Netanyahu, is the trouble maker… Unbelievable How long will Mahmud Abbas continue to play the fool in the play named “peace process”? For almost two decades – in fact since Shimon Peres replaced Yitshak Rabin as Prime Minister in 1995 – Israel is doing everything to replace the so call peace process by a strategy of systematic colonization of the West Bank coupled with a subcontracting of the repression of the Palestinian national resistance by the Palestinian police. From time to time we are reported about empty talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials, under US “fair broker” control. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu does not even try to fake, and some of his ministers are openly stating that there is no intention to negotiate anything that will challenge Israeli sovereignty on the West Bank. Every child knows that while Abbas is ready to crawl in order to meet the Israeli representatives, it is Israel that is not interested to talk with the Palestinian representatives. Secretary of State John Kerry seems to have recently decided to push back the “peace process” on track. Does it mean that the US administration intends to put pressure on Israel and to oblige Netanyahu to reverse his politics? Of course not. According to Haaretz (June 26, 2013) “in the last weeks the US pressures on the Palestinian President have seriously intensified. Secretary of State Kerry has made clear that he has no intention to cooperate with his [Abbas] preconditions, and that, for the time being, he and not Netanyahu are considered by the US administration as the one who is blocking the US efforts.” Kerry added that, if his efforts will fail, he will not hesitate to put most of the blame on him”. What are Abbas “preconditions”? To freeze the Israeli settlement’s activities and to accept that the negotiations will be based on the pre-67 borders. Both conditions are based on the International law and the international consensus (including the USA) that settlements are blatantly illegal and the West Bank is an occupied land. According to sources close to US secretary of State, Palestinian President however is ready to moderate his position and to accept a slowing down of settlement’s activities instead of freeze. No wonder that the Israeli government is not impressed by Kerry’s initiatives and that Netanyahu can even afford to announce that he will be ready to sit in a tent with Abbas until an agreement will be reached: until huge pressures will be used against the Israeli rejectionists, the whole “peace process” remains a virtual game, and it seems that Mahmud Abbas is the only one that is not aware that he is playing in a game and not in the real world.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 07:17:55 +0000
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