Disillusioned voices crying out in peace talks

Friday,08 October 2010
By : Jameel W. Karaki
I still reminisce those glorious days when I was a sprightly young lad with a flowing mane of blonde hair (all tied up in a neat ponytail) and used to hear and read in the media about ongoing peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel under the auspicious blessings of the American authorities. It's unfortunate that we still hear and read about these so-called peace talks - don't we?
This universal farce called the peace negotiations that have been played time and again by the so many actors and actresses under the direction of the US through the international media still seem to be ongoing! The key player in this imbroglio is the chief Palestinian negotiator and diplomat.
Here we have a negotiator in our midst - who enjoys brandishing his internationally branded designer wardrobe bought through his various visits to the US State department and Arab countries in addition to obtaining countless financial advantages to the extent that if you ever gain access to his economic and financial statuses, you'd be under the impression that he is an influential Scandinavian citizen.
Shaking hands with the enemy seems to be a rightful recognition of his very existence, and this is truly evident in the fact whenever President Mahmud Abbas is pictured - not only shaking hands with the Israeli enemy, but in also fighting against the Hamas who has been elected and chosen by the Palestinian people under the capable patronage of the former American president Jimmy Carter who was monitoring the elections there.
Sometimes, I really wonder what this total submission to the commands set by Israel is all about despite bearing in mind the fact that the establishment of a Palestinian state should not, in any way, be an intended target that is preceded by the liberation of this land. Moreover, why should it be turned into a bargaining chip in exchange for land that rightfully belongs to the people or compromise on the fundamental rights and principles of those people?
The initiatives of the peace talks first overlooked the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people and then subsequently refuted the rights of reinstating the refugees in their own homes, lands, towns and villages, from which they were brutally expelled through the gory massacres in 1948. And then, through initiating so-called "alternative solutions" they called for finding "a just solution to the refugee issue." It is highly debatable and reproachable that those in power repeatedly use the slogan "in reaching a just solution" while the slogan should actually be "right to return," which seems more appropriate given the said circumstances.
The second key player in the negotiations is Israel, which is a deliberately planted racist terrorist state that does not seem to pay any attention to international laws. It flagrantly continues to rebuild one settlement after another under the encouraging blessings of the US. Their atrocious activities in killing innocent children, women and elderly Palestinians continue unabated despite international condemnations.
Using sophisticated American weapons, it swats the lives of innocent people like flies and as a reward for their inhumane massacres; the American government blatantly upholds its support for Israel. We have yet to ascertain whether US President Barack Obama actually intends to stop supporting these atrocities. The president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, can barely manage to garner enough support to have a health bill passed in favor of his own people so one can well imagine what kind of power he actually wields in guaranteeing any substantial progress concerning the peace process.
The US recently slammed a UN probe into Israel's storming of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, urging the Human Rights Council to prevent the report from being used to torpedo the ongoing peace talks. What if other nations had followed the same path in supporting the cause of Palestine or even Iran? Wouldn't that move be slammed as supporting terrorism and going against the tenets of American foreign polices?
Those Palestinians who believe in such empty negotiations as a being a "true path' in the establishment of their state, are living in a disillusioned reality and their fragile hopes translate into mere stupidity itself. Just take a single glance at the map of Palestine printed before 1948 and an existing one. You will surely notice that the Palestinian landmass (whatever little is left of it) is shrinking by the second and a day will surely dawn on us when these elegant Palestinian negotiators are relegated to crawling down on their knees - begging the Americans to permit them to move freely inside their own cluttered bed rooms; simply because at that given point of time, their homes will be located in a land called just Israeli.
Mahmoud Abbas seems to rush to Washington DC at the drop of a hat - behaving as if he is the legitimate president of the Palestinian people, without consulting the other Palestinian parties or even his own people. He has also, time and again, blatantly overlooked the fact that he could have used Hamas and its operations in Israel as proxy to gain their unified demands. However with the existence of an absolute and unwavering American support to Israel, the American government no longer seems to be a neutral party to either side.
The only solution to end this never-ending dilemma is to resort to an armed struggle and creating an effective lobby in the US to reduce the magnitude of American aid to Israel. What is not required at this point of time are useless summits that are organized for the sake of issuing ineffective press statements and splashing photographs across local and international newspapers.
Furthermore, it is impossible to achieve a two-state solution bearing in mind that Israel is a racist Zionist country down to its roots. I sincerely hope the American and Arab leaders realize this underlying fact, and work accordingly towards realizing the secularization of Israel.
Finally, if the Palestinians insist on engaging in unfeasible negotiations without realizing the immunization of the "right to return" and demanding due compensations from Israel, I advise them to stop their wasted efforts and engage themselves in holding fruitful talks with the Israeli government in becoming an integral part of the State of Israel itself.
In that way, they can finally bid farewell to their quest of regaining their own homeland. What is paradoxical about the entire issue is: "Doesn't the current Palestinian authority go to extremes to ensure the overall safety and security of the Israeli people more than its own people?
Now although my flowing blonde locks have thinned considerably and I am almost going bald, I am nonetheless older and wiser. But even now, I can safely state that negotiations under the current situations and conditions can bring about peace in the region. The recent visits of George John Mitchell, Special Envoy for the Middle East peace process and discouraging the continued construction of settlements by the Zionists can truly realize a lasting peace process for both sides, if taken seriously
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