With frustration and helplessness easily detected in the tone of his voice U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted that U.S.-mediated talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) is going nowhere.
And in an implicit warning to the two sides the head of American diplomacy said the U.S. is evaluating its role as broker of the Middle East peace process.
“This is not an open-ended effort it never has been. It is reality check time and we intend to evaluate precisely what the next steps will be. “There are limits in the amount of time and effort that the United States can spend if the parties themselves are unwilling to take construction steps in order to be able to move forward” Kerry said.
Futile talks
I don’t know if John Kerry has ever believed in the depth of his heart that there is a real chance for a truly dignified and equitable (let alone just) solution for the Palestinian issue.
He has paid numerous visits to Occupied Palestine and held numerous meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders but to no avail. The same thing was done by his many predecessors including Hillary Clinton Condoleezza Rice and Madeline Albright to mention just a few secretaries of State and no breakthrough was reached.
That is why instead of reproducing the same failures all over again Kerry and the Obama administration ought to devote some time to vigorously and honesty study the reasons for the chronic failure of the so-called America peace efforts in Occupied Palestine.
But given the huge subservience of the US government to Jewish pressure groups such as AIPAC I am not sure any American administration would be able to objectively re-assess American policy in the Middle East. Such a feat would probably trigger a no-holds-barred war with Israel’s powerful supporters at the U.S. arena a war any U.S. administration would probably lose given current political balances in Washington.
Well one of the most scandalous aspects of U.S. government subservience to Israel manifests itself in the fact that the U.S. itself has always enabled Israel to reject and sabotage American “peace efforts” in the region. The U.S. gave Israel hundreds of billions of dollars throughout the years and helped turn Israel into a first-class military power thanks to the unbridled transfer of American military technology to the “Jewish state”.
None the less instead of utilizing this virtually unlimited and unrestricted support to restrain Israel Israel became ever more insolent more intransigent and more recalcitrant. And instead of giving up the spoils of the 1967 war Israel continued to build Jewish-only settlements on occupied Arab land and transfer its citizens to the West Bank and East Jerusalem to live on land that belongs to another people.
The US knew too well what Israel was doing. However instead of calling the spade a spade successive American administrations refused to act to save whatever hope there was for peace in the region.
In fact most of these U.S. administrations behaved like obsequious whores vis-à-vis Israel to the point of enabling Israel to call the shots in Washington. A Former American President and several American political scientists and intellectuals repeatedly raised serious questions about this scandalous imbalance in America’s relations with Israel.
But the state of denial continued unabated in Washington until Israel was able to effectively decapitate the two-state solution through the intensive building of Jewish settlements in the Occupied West Bank.
Hence John Kerry is only trying to salvage the bitter harvest of more than 50 years of American failure vis-à-vis Israel. Needless to say his success chances are close to Zero.
The truth of the matter is that there is no longer a real chance for peace in the Middle East. Israel thanks to America’s overwhelming support for Israel’s lebensraum policy at the Palestinians’ expense has killed almost all realistic prospects for a genuine peace settlement.
Indeed while an equitable peace deal should see an absolute end to Israel’s decades-old occupation of the West Bank East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip along with the repatriation of millions of Palestinian refugees to their former towns and villages in what is now Israel Israel understands peace as implying the liquidation of the Palestinian cause through a deceptive process enabling the “Jewish state” to arrogate the bulk of historical Palestine.
Under such an unthinkable deal at least as far as the Palestinians are concerned the Palestinians would get a “state” made up of small patches of scattered territories without Jerusalem and without real sovereignty.
Such a deformed state wouldn’t control its borders and border crossings nor exercise any control over its land airspace and sea waters. But the Palestinians would have to use the grandest of names to call their “state.”!!!
There is no question that accepting such a solution would be tantamount to committing adultery with the Palestinian national cause. Hence any Palestinian leader voicing a willingness to accept this thundering treachery would be committing the ultimate treason against his country people and faith.
And in an implicit warning to the two sides the head of American diplomacy said the U.S. is evaluating its role as broker of the Middle East peace process.
“This is not an open-ended effort it never has been. It is reality check time and we intend to evaluate precisely what the next steps will be. “There are limits in the amount of time and effort that the United States can spend if the parties themselves are unwilling to take construction steps in order to be able to move forward” Kerry said.
Futile talks
I don’t know if John Kerry has ever believed in the depth of his heart that there is a real chance for a truly dignified and equitable (let alone just) solution for the Palestinian issue.
He has paid numerous visits to Occupied Palestine and held numerous meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders but to no avail. The same thing was done by his many predecessors including Hillary Clinton Condoleezza Rice and Madeline Albright to mention just a few secretaries of State and no breakthrough was reached.
That is why instead of reproducing the same failures all over again Kerry and the Obama administration ought to devote some time to vigorously and honesty study the reasons for the chronic failure of the so-called America peace efforts in Occupied Palestine.
But given the huge subservience of the US government to Jewish pressure groups such as AIPAC I am not sure any American administration would be able to objectively re-assess American policy in the Middle East. Such a feat would probably trigger a no-holds-barred war with Israel’s powerful supporters at the U.S. arena a war any U.S. administration would probably lose given current political balances in Washington.
Well one of the most scandalous aspects of U.S. government subservience to Israel manifests itself in the fact that the U.S. itself has always enabled Israel to reject and sabotage American “peace efforts” in the region. The U.S. gave Israel hundreds of billions of dollars throughout the years and helped turn Israel into a first-class military power thanks to the unbridled transfer of American military technology to the “Jewish state”.
None the less instead of utilizing this virtually unlimited and unrestricted support to restrain Israel Israel became ever more insolent more intransigent and more recalcitrant. And instead of giving up the spoils of the 1967 war Israel continued to build Jewish-only settlements on occupied Arab land and transfer its citizens to the West Bank and East Jerusalem to live on land that belongs to another people.
The US knew too well what Israel was doing. However instead of calling the spade a spade successive American administrations refused to act to save whatever hope there was for peace in the region.
In fact most of these U.S. administrations behaved like obsequious whores vis-à-vis Israel to the point of enabling Israel to call the shots in Washington. A Former American President and several American political scientists and intellectuals repeatedly raised serious questions about this scandalous imbalance in America’s relations with Israel.
But the state of denial continued unabated in Washington until Israel was able to effectively decapitate the two-state solution through the intensive building of Jewish settlements in the Occupied West Bank.
Hence John Kerry is only trying to salvage the bitter harvest of more than 50 years of American failure vis-à-vis Israel. Needless to say his success chances are close to Zero.
The truth of the matter is that there is no longer a real chance for peace in the Middle East. Israel thanks to America’s overwhelming support for Israel’s lebensraum policy at the Palestinians’ expense has killed almost all realistic prospects for a genuine peace settlement.
Indeed while an equitable peace deal should see an absolute end to Israel’s decades-old occupation of the West Bank East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip along with the repatriation of millions of Palestinian refugees to their former towns and villages in what is now Israel Israel understands peace as implying the liquidation of the Palestinian cause through a deceptive process enabling the “Jewish state” to arrogate the bulk of historical Palestine.
Under such an unthinkable deal at least as far as the Palestinians are concerned the Palestinians would get a “state” made up of small patches of scattered territories without Jerusalem and without real sovereignty.
Such a deformed state wouldn’t control its borders and border crossings nor exercise any control over its land airspace and sea waters. But the Palestinians would have to use the grandest of names to call their “state.”!!!
There is no question that accepting such a solution would be tantamount to committing adultery with the Palestinian national cause. Hence any Palestinian leader voicing a willingness to accept this thundering treachery would be committing the ultimate treason against his country people and faith.
