Palestininan protestor holds poster with a caricature of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Ramallah, Palestine May 23, 2013 (Photo:Mohamad Torokman /Reuters)
When John Kerry met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah last week to discuss ‘peace talks’, Palestinians demonstrated. The Jerusalem Post reported Kerry was also putting together an “economic package” for Palestinians.
Sound familiar? This sign says it all.
$4bn compared to how much Israel owes the palestinians- it’s a joke.
Deja vu. all over again and again and again.
No more false promises or trickery from the peace opponents.
Now that Israel has realized, it lost most of the worlds good will and trust, it is trying to reverse the tsunami that is heading right at it.
Job one, (with the help of uncle sam) is to go back to the days when the Palestinians were always the obstacle to peace and turned down those far reaching oh so generous offers made by Israel.
Too bad Israel.
No one believes one letter of one word you say.
Why the hell should they.
Well, well, well, ain’t that the truth!
I am an eternal optimist, I must admit. But I have recently reached “eternity” and started advocating the 1S1P1V (one state, one person, one vote) reality since my fateful encounter with the limit of eternal optimism!
Some people say that USA cannot pressure Israel into a peace; the parties must want it. I came to the realization that this is wrong. USA certainly CAN dictate peace to Israel just by THREATENING to not fund the zionist state; USA doesn’t even have to act on that threat for the zionist regime to accept a fair and just peace settlement.
My conclusion is that USA does NOT want to do this, as opposed to it cannot due to AIPAC, etc. USA does not want to, plain and simple. The reason is geopolitics.
Here’s the rationale: a few years ago, a position was developing in the West including USA that, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Israel is less strategically important. In fact, some argued that it’s value has been almost totally devalued. Fast forward a few years and the reverse is happening. Israel – by refusing to make peace with a Palestinian State, by the neocons’ incitement and dragging of the West into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, by encouraging and supplying weapons to Libya’s rebels, by attacking Sudan, etc. etc. etc. – is perpetuating, nurturing, and sowing instability in the region so the zionist regime looks like the ONE AND ONLY stable nation in the region. With the Syrian crisis and the Russian support for Assad, the zionist regime is making it even clearer to USA and the West that it is Israel that protects the west’s interest in the ME. Without Israel, USA and the West will not have a foothold in the ME or its oil. Hence, do not force the zionist regime to make peace.
As long as that broader geopolitical equation holds, there will be no peace in the Holy Land. The only way forward is 1S1P1V with total equality for all citizens of the DEMOCRATIC State of the Holy Land.
Sorry, imho this “geopolitical” rationalization i can not follow at all. I barely hesitate to call it outright rubbish.
There is no value added for the USA in geopolitical terms by Israel at all.
Israel is a headache and a burden, politically and financially.
What i can agree with, is that I also can not see any serious political will on the US side to enforce with robust policies a just and fair settlement of the I-P-conflict.
Apart from the mighty influence of AIPAC et al. on the domestic plane – are the economic interests of the USA and direct corporate investments too much interwoven with the Israeli economy, that they may be compromised by a peace agreement? Imho, hardly so.
An economic peace dividend in the entire ME-region is much more likely for the USA than any disadvantageous course of events in case of a genuine Arrangement of all outstanding issues between P + I.