U.S. Briefs Media on Structure, Motivation for Israel-PA Direct Talks
Virtually none of these eight points is ever addressed by the U.S. government or the mass media. Well, the briefing did mention one: claiming that a recent poll showed that over 80 percent of the Arabs in the six most moderate countries are “still in principle open to the two-state solution.”
This argument, by the way, is expressed with the most appalling distortions of the facts. For example: the briefer bragged that 39 percent said that a two-state solution would happen through negotiations, as if this was some amazing fact. Of course that’s what they say — it’s amazing more don’t say it! They certainly don’t think this would be the outcome of any war they won!
The briefer also said that the majority of those polled believe that if there is no two-state solution, there will be conflict in the coming years. What this leaves out: they probably believe that a two-state solution would also bring conflict, and they believe that if Israel doesn’t meet every Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim demand, there can be no two-state (temporary) solution.
Moreover, the briefer left out the fact that the poll showed an astonishingly high level of support from revolutionary Islamist leaders (including Iran’s regime), and groups in the most moderate states.
But why go on? The ultimate argument, which really underlies all the others: Would you rather have us do nothing? Shouldn’t we try?
Sure. You must, however, act with a realistic and honest assessment of the situation, and with the proper preparations:
– To stage negotiations without ever pressuring the PA to stop the very incitement and radicalism that ensures there is no popular base for peace is to guarantee failure.
– Showing you are ready to accept a Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip, and to protect it from being overthrown, is to ensure there is no basis for peace.
–To fail to show strong backing for moderates — including the Lebanese independence forces — while coddling extremists is to ensure there is no strategic basis for peace.
Many more points can be added here. No, this is not the best that the United States of America could do. Yes, the talks will fail. Certainly, much of the media will pretend otherwise.
Looks like the anti-semites who conned their way into power in the US need another year to make sure Iran gets operational nukes.
My fellow Dudes and Dudettes,
I disagree with this article. I mean, Abbas must somehow know that Palestinian refugees and their families will now be able to live in Israel in virtual and peaceful perpetuity. I am not sure, but I think this is good news. Right?
Next, Abbas can and will accept a strong Israeli leader since this is our new brotherhood. Also, Abbas can once and for all tell Hamas to go and jump in the lake and die. I think he has that power, yes I do. He has big shoes to fill, that he does. Huge portions of that Arab world’s population will listen to what this man says. They value his opinion. He is very opinionated.
I cannot and do not believe the naysayers. Now is the time to build upon that platform of trust and love that has alluded us so long. Peace out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km3NN3f6pYE&p=9A41A8F8F2783CED&playnext=1&index=19
The PA and Hamas have no intention of ACTUALLY achieving peace. This would end their victim status and gravey train. This conflict will never be resolved because the parties really do not want to resolve it mostly on the PA and Hamas side in my view. The Arab countries that surround Israel do NOTHING to help either.
Clearly this new press initiative is to feed US citizens the narrative that the incompetent Obama administration is now some kind of great success internationally. How do we fill up the news cycle with this crap so that people will not focus on the fact that the liberals are getting wacked in the primaries and are facing one of the biggest electoral sea changes in history. Well deserved I might add.
This conflict has become a joke–made worse by the MSM’s inability to handle the truth and their misguided support of the PA and Hamas positions as victims who feed off the daily hatred of the EU and other boobs who hate Israel. Jew baiting and anti semiticism here we come.
The rest of us are just tired of it.
Even if the Abbas negotiating team and Abbas himself wanted to negotiate with the Israel side in good faith I doubt if either the Palestinian population or even the supposed moderate Arab states like Egypt or Jordan would let them.
Remember, it isn’t just Abbas, the PLO, and the Hamas which have deliberately and maliciously kept the negotiations stalled. It is also the Arab league along with Egypt and Jordan, for their own internal political and security reasons, to keep the pressure on Israel as the pariah state of course, but to prevent as long as possible the creation of a Palestinian terrorist state right next to them.
But the present American administration seems entirely unaware of the true complexity of the Arab Israel Palestinian conflict and the media even less so if this is possible.
Are these people just simple, deeply egotistical, or are they just blinded by their ideology?
Both.
The only plan that had a smidgen of success in the past 20 years was Sharon’s idea of unilateral withdrawal, setting our boundaries and let them sink or swim with what’s left. It solves the most sticky issue, their claim to parts of Jerusalem based on their victories in the 1948 war when they drove out the Jews who had been a majority there.(In their minds the 1967 war reversing that result never happened.) But Israel had withdrawn unilaterally from the security zone in Lebanon and then Gaza and what they got out of that were cross- border abductions of soldiers and two wars. That plan lost all its appeal.
The Palestinians do not negotiate; they demand, whatever we ask for you have to give us. They won’t even talk unless Israel cuts off its nose to spite its face, freezes building in its ancient territories. The result is that these are not negotiations but ultimatums and the answer is known in advance. No. These talks are a show Obama is putting on to appease the Arab world, but they are just a caricature.