Futility Of Current Talks Between Israel And PA: Deviating From Our National Constants Will Be A Traitor
30 December 2013
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
Listening to media statements by some Palestinian
Authority (PA) officials, one occasionally gets the
impression that there will be light at the end of the
long and dark tunnel of Palestinian-Israeli
negotiations.
However, a careful examination of the facts shows
beyond any doubt that expecting a breakthrough of any
kind from these futile talks would be tantamount to
indulging in excessive wishful thinking, daydreaming
and infinite naiveté.
Indeed, in order for the current talks to have any
real chance of success, Israel would have to change
its way of thinking, make a clear and lasting
departure from her criminal modes, including showing a
real willingness to give up occupied land, stop
building colonies on occupied territories and stop
transferring Israeli citizens to live on land that
belongs to another people.
Obviously, any state that does what Israel is and has
been doing for decades not only doesn't want peace,
such a state actually doesn't have peace on the list
of its national agenda.
Yes, Israeli officials and spokespersons would fill
the ether with all sorts of lies about Israel's
purported desire for peace. None the less, Israel
remains, as it has always been, a murderer, liar and
thief.
There is ample evidence that Israel not only doesn't
desire peace but actually dreads it as well. The
continuous provocations, including cold-blooded murder
of innocent Palestinians, show that the Israeli state
is after lebensraum, not peace.
More to the point, the arrogant dogged insistence by
the Israeli government on treating the PA with utmost
disrespect, proves that the Netanyahu government views
the weak PLO regime not as an equal peace partner, but
rather as a vanquished supplicant that should accept
whatever is thrown unto it by the imperial Israeli
entity.
In any case, it is highly unlikely that the two-state
strategy still has any real chance of seeing daylight,
given the cancerous metastasis of Jewish settlements
all over the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and
East Jerusalem.
True, things done can be undone. But Israel, which is
intoxicated by characteristic Talmudic insolence,
arrogance of power and the absolute domination of
American political life, is in no mood to give up
occupied land, especially settlements built since 1967
and viewed as the greatest Jewish achievement since
King Solomon.
In fact, one doesn't exaggerate much by saying that
Israel has effectively decapitated the two-state
solution.
But Israel would never say so openly. Its ultimate
goal is not to prevent the creation of a Palestinian
political entity at any price. Its real aim is the
liquidation of the Palestinian cause by cajoling the
Palestinians. e.g. the PLO, to accept a "state" bereft
of sovereignty, dignity and substance. Needless to say
such a solution would be rejected by the vast majority
of the Palestinian people especially if it involved
the practical relinquishing by the Palestinian
leadership of the paramount right of return for
millions of Palestinian refugees uprooted from their
ancestral homeland at the hands of Jewish-Zionist
invaders coming from overseas.
Yes, there are certain Palestinians, probably people
like Mahmoud Abbas and his aide Saeb Ureikat, who
would make capitulationist arguments such as this:
"This is the maximum we can achieve under current
circumstances."
But these people, who will also try hard to induce
Palestinians to support this national treason by
promising them financial rewards and economic
prosperity, will eventually be rejected and ejected by
the Palestinian masses.
Yes, most Palestinians would probably like to see a
dignified settlement of the conflict, one that meets
fundamental Palestinian aspirations, including the
repatriation of the refugees as well as an Israeli
withdrawal from 100% of the West Bank, including East
Jerusalem.
However, in Islam, as is the case in other
monotheistic religions, one is not licensed to commit
fornication if one doesn't possess the dowry he must
pay for marriage.
I am not accusing any Palestinian leaders of treason.
However, every Palestinian or Arab leader who deviates
from our national constants will be a traitor who is
entitled to receive a traitor's treatment.
One more point. There are definitive worrying signs
that the Ramallah leadership may be trying to accept
the effective liquidation of the Palestinian cause
under the rubric of the Arab league.
Seeking to justify such perfidy, some PA spokesmen and
mouthpieces would argue that "we cannot be more Arab
than the Arabs themselves."
Well, but since when were Arab tyrants really
qualified or trusted to liberate Palestine from the
clutches of Zionism? Indeed, it is a huge insult to
common sense to expect charlatan generals like Abdul
Fattah Sisi to make a real stand for Palestinian
rights when he didn't hesitate for a minute to order
his henchmen to open fire on and murder thousands of
innocent Egyptians demanding the return to power of
the democratically-elected Egyptian president.
Yes, Sisi may be Egypt's defense minister and de facto
ruler of the largest Arab nation. However, he is also
a tyrant of the cheapest caliber who is shamelessly
acting on Israel's beck and call. In short, those who
murder their own people in cold blood can't be
expected to stand for Palestine. Palestine needs real
heroes like Salahuddin, not real traitors like Abdul
Fattah al Sisi.
The same principle applies to Arab kings and
presidents- for-life who are answerable to Washington
and Tel Aviv and who value the legitimacy that comes
from American acceptance more than that which comes
from their own people's acceptance.
These people are cowards and traitors par excellence
and can't be trusted or entrusted to stand for
Palestinian rights.
So, the next time President Abbas feels he has to
travel to Cairo to consult with Arab tyrants or their
puppet foreign ministers, he should keep in mind that
we Palestinians, and no one else, have the sole right
to determine our cause and destiny.
Yes, Arabs and other Muslims are welcome to support us
extricate our rights from Israel's criminal hands.
But they are not and will not be welcome to act as
America's and Israel's agents to pressure us to
abandon these rights.
Khalid Amayreh is an
American-educated journalist living in Occupied
Palestine
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