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

- By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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The launch of negotiations launch has been marred by a rare, public U.S.-Israeli dispute over Israel's plans to plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews in a part of the occupied West Bank it annexed to Jerusalem. The Zionist regime thinks it can manage all crises successfully and bully the USA as before. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to play down the unusually bitter diplomatic row between the two allies. He said the announcement was a "bureaucratic mix-up" and that he "deeply regretted" the timing of the announcement. Under the Israeli plans, the new homes will be built in Ramat Shlomo in East Jerusalem.
A top aide to US President Barack Obama said Israel's announcement of plans to build 1,600 homes for Jews in East Jerusalem was "destructive" to peace efforts. David Axelrod said the move, which overshadowed Biden's visit to Israel, was also an "insult" to the United States. Pro-Israeli media and several western strategists think the talks even if resumes would be unlikely to succeed, given the Israeli intentions, goals and attitude towards Palestine and Arabs. Abbas has refused to resume direct negotiations with Israel for 17 months because of its refusal to put a complete stop to the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In November, Israel announced a 10-month suspension of new building in the West Bank, under heavy US pressure. But it considers areas within the Jerusalem municipality as its territory and thus not subject to the restrictions.
How dare fascist Zionist regime keeps on entering Palestine under their brute occupation and kills and picks up Palestinian leaders at will and the international community keeps discrete silence over such nefarious terrorist activities by the protégé of the western Axis of evils? Israel's army said yesterday that a leading member of the Palestinian ruling Hamas party has been arrested in the West Bank. It says Mahar Uda, 47, was seized overnight in the Ramallah region. He is said to be one of the founders of Hamas' armed wing in the West Bank. Hamas said Palestinian security forces helped Israel arrest Uda. Israeli forces have been hunting for him for more than 10 years in connection with a series of deadly attacks in Israel. "He had been on the wanted list since the end of the 1990s for his implication in a series of suicide attacks in Israel which claimed 70 lives," an Israeli military spokesman told the AFP news agency. Militants under Uda's command also allegedly gathered ammunition for Hamas attacks against Israel and kidnapped Palestinians suspected of co-operating with Israel.

US President Barack Obama said Israel's announcement of plans to build 1,600 homes for Jews in East Jerusalem was "destructive" to peace efforts. The Zionist regime spurns negotiations on Palestine chiefly because it does not want to lose control over the Palestinian territories now under their brute control and lose the self-right to kill Palestinians at will. The talks should focus on where to draw state borders. Peace talks held last also broke down after the Israeli fascist invasion of the Gaza Strip between December 2008 and January 2009, killing thousands of innocent Palestinians, including children, women and old people. Last week Israeli officials rebuked Obama and announced the building of 1,600 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem while US Vice-President Joe Biden was visiting.

On 7 March 2010, Palestinian leaders in the West Bank backed a new round of indirect peace talks with Israel, more than a year after negotiations broke down. The PLO Palestine Liberation Organisation endorsed the move, already backed by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, Arab foreign ministers, Israel and the US. But PLO leaders said they doubted the talks would get anywhere, and that they should be limited to four months. Senior Palestinians in the West Bank are sceptical that Israel will make significant concessions to their demands in “these indirect negotiations with the terrorist Netanyahu government”. But they said they still want to give an opportunity to the US administration to continue its efforts. Palestinian leaders have demanded a complete halt to Israeli settlement building on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, before they would resume talks. Israel has only enforced a partial curb on building, so the Palestinian move represents something of a climbdown. A top Hamas official said the talks should focus on where to draw state borders. The Israeli government welcomed the resumption of talks when the proposal won the backing of the Arab foreign ministers earlier in the week.

US Vice-President Joe Biden says there must be no delay in resuming Mid-East peace talks, despite a row over Israeli plans for new homes in East Jerusalem. Biden repeated his criticism of the timing of the building decision, but praised the response of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the controversy. He also stressed that the United States had "no better friend than Israel". The Palestinian Authority earlier said talks would be "very difficult" if the plans for the homes were not rescinded. The talks will be mediated by the USA, whose negotiators will shuttle between Israeli and Palestinian delegations. It is not clear when they will start. Face-to-face talks remain some way off. The attempt to restart what are known as "proximity talks" has been driven by the US, whose envoy, former US Senator George Mitchell, has visited the Middle East many times in the past year. The move is likely to be criticised by Hamas, who are in control of the Gaza Strip and are not part of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, an umbrella group for Palestinians.

President Mahmoud Abbas informed Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa that he had "demanded that the Americans help us revoke this order" at a meeting with Biden in Ramallah last week. Earlier, Moussa said the Palestinians had decided not to take part. But US state department spokesman Philip Crowley has said both sides had only agreed to hold indirect, "proximity talks" in a bid to restart the peace process, which has been stalled for more than a year. A prominent Fatah figure and former Palestinian foreign minister, Nabil Shaath, said that the prospect of talks resuming had been sabotaged by Israel's action. The speed at which Jerusalem is being Judaised and de-Arabised has surpassed any period in the history of the peace process and is so alarming that we cannot possibly continue giving cover to Netanyahu that we are still negotiating while he is doing this."

Hamas has been in charge of Gaza since defeating the rival Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a 2007 poll and subsequent civil war promoted by Israel and USA. The Palestinians are threatening to boycott newly agreed, indirect talks unless the Ramat Shlomo project is cancelled. Close to 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this. Since the announcement, Palestinian leaders have said that indirect talks with Israel are now "doubtful".

The gap between Israel and the Palestinians seemed to yawn wider - although historically, Israeli leaders have tended to lay out tough "red lines" and later abandon them. To Palestinians, the building approval was more evidence of what they had suspected all along - that Netanyahu wanted the cover of some kind of process, but was far from serious about the concessions needed for actual peace.

Not only several western states, but also western media agents are assisting the Zionist regime by working against Palestinian interests. On 14 Feb 2010 Palestine Hamas have arrested a British anti-Palestine journalist Paul Martin in the Gaza Strip on serious security offences. Interior minister Ghsain said they have confessions that the British journalist committed offences against Palestinian law, and that threatens and harms the security of the country. “The Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem confirmed that a journalist by that name has visited the region on assignments for several years. The British consulate in Jerusalem, which oversees affairs in Gaza and the West Bank, possibly sponsoring the post-paid anti-Palestine journalists has made no comment.
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Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal, Specialist on State Terrorism; Chronicler of Freedom movements (Palestine, Kashmir, etc) ; Independent Columnist in International Affairs; Research Scholar (JNU) & the only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation in South Asia.