When President Clinton’s
chances of winning a Noble Peace prize at the expense of Palestinians evaporated
in July 2000, he came out spitting his venom at the Palestinian leadership and
holding them responsible for the talk failure.
During the ill fated
Camp David talk, the Palestinians refused the Israeli offer to establish a “Swiss
Cheese” Palestinian entity. At the Camp David’s talk, the Palestinians were
negotiating not with Israel, but with its agents represented by Dennis Ross and
President Clinton. The Palestinian at
the time refused conditions to accept a non survivable state, forgo the rights
of return for Palestinian refugees and to a bizarre proposal for a shared East
Jerusalem.
The conclusion of
those failed talks could have been seen as disappointing ending, but in no way
it represented any violation to international law. Yet, the “Lewinsky lover” held
a press conference, standing next to him the most conniving Israeli leader “Barak”,
he held Arafat responsible for the failed talk.
This is in contrast
to today’s events. The US invested several months negotiating with Israel to comply
“temporarily” with its previous agreements, the road map and several UN resolutions.
Hitherto despite generous illegal offer, Israel snubbed the US with a big NO! Yet
the US did not have the guts to blame Israel for violating international law
and for endangering world peace.
Despite this
failure, the US wants the parties to restart indirect negotiation to discuss
the border of the future of the Palestinian state, Jerusalem and the refugees.
The US being Israel’s largest political and financial benefactor has failed to convince
the Israeli racist ultra right government to comply with International laws,
yet wants the Palestinians to negotiate while witnessing Israel disregard to
international.
When will the
Palestinian leadership understand that the US government is not an honest “peace”
broker? How can it be so when the US is represented by a Zionist, Denis Ross, a
person who throughout his private and public political career was dedicated to
defending Israel violation of international law?
The Palestinian
leadership should declare that due to the lack of a negotiating partner, the
negotiating is dead. It should stop fooling itself and its public while Israel
continues to gobble what remained of historical Palestine.
Like when a business
strategy fails, a company is expected to change its board of directors. The
current Palestinian board has failed. A new strategy demands new board.