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Will Gullible Arabs Understand? by Khalid Amayreh
The decision of the Arab League to dispatch a delegation
to Israel to discuss the already moribund Arab Peace
initiative can only be interpreted as another exercise
in futility, gullibility and impotence.
First of all, Israel itself is utterly uninterested in any
genuine peace process that would end the Israeli occupation
of Palestine and bring about a just resolution of the
Palestinian refugee plight.
Indeed, a country that has built hundreds of Jewish-only
colonies on stolen land, and is now mutilating the West
Bank with a hateful, gigantic wall that is reducing
Palestinian population centers to open-air concentration
camps, is obviously not interested in peace and
reconciliation, neither with the Palestinian people nor
with the Arab and Muslim nations.
Hence, it is only logical to expect the Arab initiative,
which promises Israel full normalization of relations with
Arab countries in return for a total withdrawal from the
occupied territories and a just solution for the enduring
refugee plight, will eventually face the same failure and
same fiasco that other similar initiatives have met since
the William Roger's plan in the late 1960s.
This is not to say that Israel will not want to talk with
the Arab. Israel does want to normalize relations with all
Arab states and peoples from Mauritanian to Bahrain
provided that they come to terms with Israel's Nazi-like
colonization of Palestine and ethnic cleansing and
attempted national annihilation of the Palestinian people.
The Arab League delegation, which includes Egyptian Foreign
Minister Ahmed Abu al Gheith and his Jordanian counterpart,
Abdul Elah Khatib, was supposed to arrive in occupied
Jerusalem Thursday, 12 July. However, the Israeli
government has decided to postpone the visit for at least
two weeks due to "special considerations" pertaining to
Israeli premier Ehud Olmert.
The postponement, some observers suggest, should be seen
as a proof of Israel's disinterest, even contempt, of the
visit.
Earlier, the Israeli government has asked Egypt and Jordan
to expand the Arab "contact group" to include other
countries such as Saudi Arabia.
There is only one interpretation of the Israeli request,
namely that Israel wants to normalize relations with all
Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, while the Nazi-like
occupation of Palestine and the Nazi-like treatment of
Palestinians remain unchanged.
Olmert, a deceitful man with virtually no moral
credibility, has said that he sees "positive points" in
the Arab initiative, an allusion to the normalization
clause.
However, he and other members of his government have made
it very clear that a complete withdrawal from the occupied
territories was out of question, that ending the occupation
of East Jerusalem was out of question and that allowing
significant numbers of Palestinian refugees to return home
was out of question.
In a certain sense, Olmert is being honest since Israel
doesn't consider the West Bank "occupied" land but rather
a "disputed" territory.
The fact that the West Bank is already dotted with hundreds
of Jewish-only settlements, inhabited by racist-minded
Talmudic fanatics who view non-Jews as animals whose lives
have no sanctity or value, makes it extremely difficult
if not outright impossible for any Israeli government to
leave the entirety of the West Bank, including East
Jerusalem.
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Moreover, East Jerusalem, the contemplated capital of the
contemplated but unlikely Palestinian state, has already
been reduced to a ghetto, surrounded on all sides by Jewish
settlements.
And given the clear drift toward religious and right-wing
chauvinism among Israeli Jews, it would a kind of day-
dreaming to expect Israelis to agree to give up the Arab
town back to its lawful owners even in return for a
100%-peace.
More to the point, if Jerusalem is "red line" for Israelis,
government and peoples alike, the implementation of the
right of return for Palestinian refugees is even a redder
line.
Indeed, Israel and Zionism are about expulsion and
deportation and ethnic cleansing of non-Jews, and allowing
the refugees to return home would be Zionism's ultimate
antithesis.
Hence, a voluntary and willful acceptance by Israel of the
return of a significant number of Palestinian refugees to
their former homes and property in what is now Israel would
be even beyond day-dreaming.
So, if Israel is going to tell the Arab League delegation
"No to Jerusalem, No the right of return and no to with-
drawal to the 1967 borderline," then for God's sake why
dispatch a delegation to Israel in the first place.
Under such circumstances, one is prompted to ask if the
Arab League and Arabs in general have to bear another
humiliation at the hands of these war criminals in West
Jerusalem?
This is a question I put to the Secretary-General of the
Arab League Amr Mousa, who should be acquainted with the
smallest details of Israeli intransigence and hostility
to peace.
I realize that the Arabs might want to score a public
relations achievement by showing the world that they are
exhausting all possible efforts for peace and that Israel
is the one that rejects peace.
But such a desperate feat will only be an expression of
powerlessness and wishful thinking. The world knows that
Israel doesn't want peace, but this hypocritical and
immoral world is simply not willing to call the spade
a spade whenever it is in Israeli hands.
Hence, it is vital that the Arabs put an end to all these
undignified and embarrassing contacts with Israel, and
start exploring another strategy that would bring about
both peace and freedom for Palestine.
Needless to say, this strategy lies first and foremost in
achieving strategic parity with Israel, a country that
understands only the language of brute force.
In the final analysis, the Arabs are acting as beggars,
and beggars, as we all know, can't be choosers.
Only when the Arab and Muslim states in the Middle East
possess a strategic force, will Israel start thinking
about peace.
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