Israel, might consider themselves a Gods people, and if there a representation of the God...kind of mean spirited. Whats worse is they seem beyond critique. But, then again if you percieve yourself as the chosen, you can pretty much do what the hell you want. “When we talk about negotiations, about the demand by the Israeli negotiating team and the current talks with Palestinians, we go into the [inaud] because these negotiations are not really negotiations. There are no two sides here who are able to negotiate give and take. There is one power, which is Israel, which is the occupying power, the sovereign power in the region, and they have control on both sides of what’s happening currently around the wall of separation. They continue to collect taxes on both sides of the wall. So the only reason why the Israeli negotiating team is making this kind of demand is in order to perpetuate the illusion that these are negotiations between two sides. And the way that Israeli government is trying to sell the negotiations, both to the Israeli public and to the rest of the world, is as if it is some kind of haggling. So they start—the Palestinians have already said there is the internationally recognized border of 1967, which is the border that was established [inaud.] and this should be the international border and the Palestinian state should be created on the other side. So Israel said, this is your demand, we will make a counter demand. We will say the wall of separation should be the border, meaning that we’re going to annex amount of areas and, in fact, turn the Palestinian territory into small enclaves. But the reason I’m calling this fiction is everybody knows that this is not actually going to happen. Everybody knows also that the Palestinian leadership will never accept this, and even that the Israeli government is not really going to follow through and make it as a real offer. They’re not going to allow a Palestinian state, a sovereign Palestinian state, even in those tiny enclaves that will remain after the wall will be considered a border. So the reason that they’re making this offer is to create the illusion that they’re haggling.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 18:15:21 +0000