Comments on: Settlement Freeze Flap Reveals Israel As Difficult Peace Partner

By: bozhidar balkas vancouver

bozhidar balkas vancouver — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:03:53 +0000

ismail,
i also got bad/sad/mad news; oops, old story: the fate of palestine had been sealed by US approval for ‘67 aggression against arab lands.
peres had declared just hours after israeli destruction of some 600 arab jet fighters [ which were still on tarmac] that the ” war was over in first three hours”

did amers convince arabs that israel wld not wage a war and thus arabs were unprepared? We don’t know. But if US had persuaded arabs that israel wld not attack them, that wld explain why the aircraft was on tarmac and not patroling the sky.
and arab leaders wld not admit to being duped. Even hussein may have been duped.
the ‘67 war had been waged to obtain all of palestine +. And it still has US blessing.
so expect the worst ever diktat. Having said this, i also notice that palestinians know all this; so they, too, are playing the same game with same rules but are at least getting paid for ‘negotiating. tnx

By: Ismail Zayid

Ismail Zayid — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:00:09 +0000

This so-called peace process is a charade. Israel has no desire to make peace with the Palestinian people. The Israeli settlement program is an inherent element of the longstanding Zionist colonial program with the planned ethnic cleansing of the palestinian people from their homeland . This plan has been the primary object of all the Zionist leaders from Herzl to Netanyahu.

The Obama requirement of imposing a freeze on the existing settlements is another charade. These settlements [colonies] are illegal in their entirety and must be removed completely , not a mere afreeze of further activity. The settlements are on illegally occupied territory and are in violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and are deemed, by international law, as war crimes.

If the US governments is truly interested in securing peace in the Middle East, it must demand complete unconditional termination of the the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory and Israeli compliance with UN resolutions and international law.

By: B99

B99 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:51:17 +0000

It’s good to see some separation between the US and Israel. It will be better if Obama puts some teeth behind the demand for no more settlement expansion. Of course, this is a far cry from upending the settlements and sending the Jews (and they are Jews, not necessarily Israeli) back to Israel. The trouble for Obama is a compliant congress so even if Obama wants to withhold aid, congress will override and even if he wants to withhold support in the UN – Republicans (and some Dems) will be calling for impeachment. And through this all, we should stay tuned to what Palestinians think should be done as their last best US presidential hope runs up against the Iron Wall. We may see a shift in thinking towards a more hard line position in Palestine.

By: kalidas

kalidas — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:30:25 +0000

“Mitchell’s team should have known that no leading Israeli politician, especially the hard line Netanyahu, would publicly assent to an indefinite halt to building on land a majority of Israelis consider to be as much part of Israel as Tel Aviv.”

And there it is, the truth in all its glory.

So much for the phony baloney polls, articles, overly intellectualizing about one state, two state, peace process and all the other nonsense. And nonsense is what it is.
DeNile ain’t just a river in Eretz Israel.