Palestine State: Will Fascist Israel give-up old Terror gimmicks? -I

- By Dr. Abdul Ruff

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Israeli fascism seems to on permanent move inside Palestine. All regimes in Israel till date pursued only genocides of Palestinians, destructions of their lands, properties while building illegal settlements for neo-Jews by suing cheap labour from Palestine. Recent announcement by the Israeli interior ministry that the Jerusalem authorities had approved the expansion of Ramat Shlomo - to build 1,600 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem - overshadowed the visit by US Vice-President Joe Biden, the highest ranking Obama administration official yet to go to the region. The final illegal approval process for the settlement would probably take more than a year, with construction starting several years from now.
Israeli prime terrorist Netanyahu telephoned the vice-president and "expressed his regret for the unfortunate timing" of the decision. Netanyahu reiterated that he had not been aware of the announcement, and said he had summoned Interior Minister Eli Yishai to reprimand him. Perhaps he is just bluffing as usual. Palestine spokesman Erekat dismissed Netanyahu's statement, saying it was "unacceptable because it talks about an error in timing and not the error in substance". All decisions regarding settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem should be cancelled.
US president Obama runs out of patience with an arrogant Israel refusing to see reasons for peaceful settlement of Palestine issue. USA demands that Israel genuinely deal with the core issues between the two sides: borders, Palestinian refugees, and the future of Jerusalem. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state. The Israeli terror leader Netanyahu strongly defended Jewish settlement construction in East Jerusalem in the face of US pressure and what one of his own top diplomats described as the worst crisis in relations with Washington for more than three decades. Netanyahu wants at least a warm reception in Washington when next week he addresses the annual conference of AIPAC, the staunchly right-of-centre pro-Israel lobby group which is trying to mobilize opposition to the stance taken by Mrs Clinton and Obama. Israel, like India, employs strong band of lobbyists to purse its interests, including illegal and immoral, by paying heavily.
The US is now said to be demanding substantive concessions from Israel after a warning by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he would not take part in talks if the plan to expand the mainly ultra-orthodox Ramat Shlomo settlement went ahead. The row has appeared finally to bring to a head the year-long tensions between the two governments since Barack Obama tried in vain to persuade the Israeli leaders to agree to a total settlement freeze. He was thwarted by Netanyahu who agreed only to a partial 10-month freeze, which did not include East Jerusalem.
Close to 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. They are illegal under international law, although Israel ignores IL international law and world bodies like UN. Biden warned Israeli leaders that in President Mahmoud Abbas and his own Fatah Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, they "finally have willing partners who share the goal of peace between two states". Their commitment to peace is an opportunity that must be seized. He said Washington would continue to hold both sides accountable for any statements or actions that inflamed tensions and prejudiced the outcome of the indirect talks brokered by the US special envoy, George Mitchell. "We can't delay because when progress is postponed, extremists exploit our differences." The most important thing is for these talks to go forward and go forward promptly and go forward in good faith.

Palestinian leaders suspect Israeli hidden agenda to spoil peace moves and say indirect peace talks with Israel that US mediators had worked to set up are now "doubtful". The Palestinians are left with no option but to boycott newly agreed, indirect talks unless the Ramat Shlomo project is cancelled. However, the US vice-president said he also appreciated the response of state terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu, who announced that he is putting in place a process to prevent this sort of occurrence, and who clarified that the beginning of actual construction would likely take several years. "That's significant because it gives negotiations the time to resolve this as well as other obstacles,” Biden said.

A defiant Netanyahu appeared to be digging in despite clear indications that the Obama administration is now demanding the scrapping of plans for 1,600 new Jewish homes, whose announcement overshadowed last week's visit to Israel by the US Vice-President Biden. Netanyahu's stance appeared to guarantee, after a highly charged week, the protraction of a stand-off in which a full-scale diplomatic row blew up at the start of Biden's visit and appeared to abate at the end of it. But it was then reignited by demands from Hillary Clinton and an angry White House that Israel make amends for the "insulting" announcement just as indirect negotiations with the Palestinians had finally been arranged.

During the height of the row last week, Joe Biden told bluntly Netanyahu: "What you're doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace." One explanation canvassed in Israel for Washington's tough stance is that pressure is being exerted by the US military for early progress in solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as means of reducing Muslim hostility to the US. In a speech at Tel Aviv University last week, Biden said the US had "no better friend in the community of nations than Israel" and that their relationship was "impervious to any shifts in either country, and in either country's partisan politics". But, he added, the decision by the Jerusalem municipality to approve the 1,600 new housing units in the settlement of Ramat Shlomo had "undermined the trust required for productive negotiations" and warranted his unequivocal condemnation. "Sometimes only a friend can deliver the hardest truth," he told the audience.

But the Zionist prime terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu has outrightly rejected any limits on Jewish building in Jerusalem and has yet to respond to US concerns directly. The Israeli leader insisted that construction would continue "in the same way as has been customary over the last 42 years" and the building of those Jewish neighborhoods in no way hurt the Arabs of East Jerusalem and did not come at their expense." Netanyahu avoided direct reference to the plans at the heart of the row for expanding the Ramat Shlomo settlement. But he showed no sign of abandoning it altogether.

On 15 March 2010, the USA has said it is awaiting a "formal" response from Israel amid a row over its decision to build 1,600 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week asked Israel to show it was committed to Middle East peace efforts. The EU, as part of the Middle East Quartet, has already condemned Israel's decision to build new homes in East Jerusalem. Speaking to Arab League members in Cairo on 15 March, EU foreign policy head Baroness Ashton said the move had "endangered and undermined the tentative agreement to begin proximity talks". The EU position on settlements is clear. Settlements are illegal, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two state-solution impossible.

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By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
March 16 2010
India