The is posted today at FOREIGNPOLICY.com in response to Professor Stephen Walt’s column about STAYING UP-TO-DATE ABOUT ISRAEL-PALESTINE.
Once again this very accomplished and erudite political scientist does too much pussy-footing around! The 2SS solution was purposefully killed off by the Israelis, Ariel Sharon in the lead, with policies begun in the 1970s and then masked by the “Oslo Peace Process” which Walt and so many others naively supported.
Today the 2SS is in a death-bed coma, like Sharon himself in fact, and will never recover. Today’s champions of the 2SS, from Olmert to Mofaz to J Street, clearly say they are doing so for Zionist reasons. Their intent is clearly to bribe and threaten the PA of Abbas/Fayyad to agree to some kind of new deal that will be yet another political fantasy mirage. Having assassinated prior Palestinian leaders who refused, including Arafat whom they groomed for so many years including his stint in the 90s as the most frequent foreign visitor to the White House, Abbas and Fayyad are well aware of what could become their fate as well if they do not comply one way or another; as they in fact already have so many times in so many ways. Even weaselly “Oslo Architect” Yossi Beilin (see at MiddleEast.Org my letter to Beilin 10 years ago chastising him for lying to and misleading his Palestinian “friends”) now tells Abbas to stop being a collaborator and end the charade of the quisling “Palestinian Authority).
BUT let’s be brutally honest and point the fingers not just at the Israelis. We Americans have been the facilitator, the pusher, the pimp, the drug-dealer, the UN vetoer, the excuser for the Israelis for decades now. Without our sui generis military, financial, political and CIA help and encouragement the Israelis could never have done what they have done. We are the extremely complicitous party. The burden of history falls on our shoulders for what we have done, and not done. And in the process we have allowed the Israelis and their Jewish lobby (now reinforced with the Christian Fundamentalist Zionists they have god-fathered) to cause us to kill and maim and make refugees of millions of more Arabs and Muslims, in the process igniting today’s Judeo-Christian crusades, largely on behalf of Israel, though masked by false slogans about “freedom” and “democracy”.
American hypocrisy and duplicity is simply awesome to behold. And now we are on the threshold of a regional war, even a great-powers clash, the Israelis and their Jewish and Christian Zealot compatriots, have been working feverishly to bring about. And so…the time for pussy-footing around should be over and we should be getting to the core issues, the core reasons, and advocating serious and tough and real solutions…rather than more hand-wring about the dead 2SS.
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WHAT MUST BE SAID about ISRAEL
10 04 2012In 1990 one of Israel’s most noted personalities, the man who in fact was known to all Israelis as TV host of Israeli National Day celebrations, felt he could not be silent any longer. So he wrote a poem. He told the truth about what the Israelis have done to the Palestinans. He was
immediately declared by the Israeli Prime Minister “an enemy of the state” and his TV appearances cancelled.
This year, in 2012, Germany’s best known literary personality, the man who in fact was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature, felt he could not be silent any longer. So he wrote a poem with title “What Must Be Said”. He told the truth about how super-armed Israel has become a serious threat to world peace; and how his country Germany was complicitous. He was immediately declared by the Israeli Prime Minister a “persona non grata” and attempts are underway to vilify him and blacken his name and reputation.
In 2010 a 90-year-old woman whose very name was synonymous with American journalism, a woman who was the only person with her personal name on a first-row seat in the White House Press Room, decided she could no longer be silent. So after a uniquely distinguished career, she denounced the Israelis for mistreatment of the Palestinians and refused to apologize. She was immediately fired from her job, banned from the White House, loudly denounced and defamed in a relentless Israeli and Jewish Lobby campaign against her.
One can always find some kind of fault and try to deflect attention from the central issues. But what also now needs to be said is that on the whole Dan Almagor was courageous and correct about his country Israel, Gunter Grass was courageous and correct about German complicity in new crimes Israel is planning, and Helen Thomas was courageous and correct in insisting that her country America is complicitous in outrageous Israeli policies toward the Palestinian people.
Dan Almagor’s poem is at the end of a speech I gave some years ago - http://www.middleeast.org/uchicago
Gunter Grass’s poem and more about Helen Thomas is at http://www.MiddleEast.org.
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US/Saudi/Israeli Strongman and Torturer SULEIMAN now running for Egypt Presidency!
7 04 2012
He was appointed VP by Mubarak in his final days hoping he could somehow manage to keep the regime alive with a new face. The US, Saudis, Israelis, were all onboard then behind-the-scenes with Omar Suleiman. He should have been arrested and imprisoned with the ‘fall of the regime’. But with strong backing from the US, Saudis, and Israelis, the military regime not only didn’t have him arrested but is now helping push him for the Presidency of the ‘New’ Egypt. This is a huge travesty. Suleiman is a very dangerous man with great blood on his personal hands. He should not be running for anything other than his freedom from prosecution and imprisonment.
You have to read to the very last paragraph of today’s Washington Post article to find the truth buried at the end: “America is the number one player in what is happening in Egypt right now. America wants a president under its wings that abides by its orders.”
MUCH INFO ABOUT SULEIMAN AT www.MiddleEast.Org
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Yossi Beilin and Me – By Mark Bruzonsky
6 04 2012Read the whole article at MiddleEast.org -
From the article in 2000: “As befits all militarist authoritarian regimes, the Israelis have their own good cop. He is Yossi Beilin, the Justice Minister in the Barak government, former Deputy Foreign Minister and long-time protege of Shimon Peres.”
Read the whole article at MiddleEast.org
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END THE SCAM ‘Peace Process’! Dissolve the quisling ‘PA’!
5 04 2012Duplicitous Yossi Beilin, protege of even more duplicitous Shimon Peres, strikes again! (read all about it at MiddleEast.Org)
Indeed he was the key Architect of Oslo. Before that he was Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister working closely with Apartheid South Africa. Now he wants to wiggle out of responsibility for all his past mistakes and tricks, including Oslo, where the key requirements of real peace were not dealt with and the Palestinians trapped in the duplicitous ‘Peace Proces’ he now condemns.
But now it’s too late! Now so much damange has been done. Now the “Two-State Solution” is trap and deception, not peace and solution!
This is the same Yossi Beilin who has admitted that never even once did he ever discuss with his Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, what the outcome of Oslo would be and whether or not there would be a real Palestinian State or just glorified ‘Palestinian Autonomy’. It is Beilin more than anyone else who is responsible for all the fracturing of Palestinian lands, all the hocus pocus of Areas A B C, and the worse-than-apatheid realities of today! But you’d never know it just from reading his open letter to Abu Mazen (read it at MiddleEast.Org).
Now, aware that the PA is itself so severely discredited, along with the horribly gone wrong ‘Peace Process’ he himself championed, opportunist par excellance Yossi Beilin is repositioning himself once again to take credit if Abu Mazen should do as he is publicly suggesting and to pocket still more millions from the gullible Europeans who have been funding Beilin and his friends, including Daniel Levy, for so many critical years when they fronted for what they now are condemning!
The ‘Peace Process’ has been scam and deception for a long time now. So has been Yossi Beilin!
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ISRAELI PEACE INITIATIVE (IPI) WARNING! DANGER!
1 04 2012The Israelis are up to their tricks more than ever! Now an establishment Israel group calling itself the “Israeli Peace Initiative” is running around to Arab capitals and “Peace Conferences” loudly saying they want a “Palestinian State” and so the Arab States should applaud them and invite them and negotiate with them. Former Generals and Mossad officials are publicly behind “the plan” — one privately endorsed by many in and near the Israeli government in fact. And a smooth-talking maybe even sincere-but-naively-used Israeli businessman, Koby Huberman, is the out-front spokesman. The whole thing smells like a crafty Israeli Foreign Ministry/Intel/p.r. op.
Bottom Line: DON’T TRUST the IPI folks for a moment! The IPI is probably part of a enhanced Israeli multidimensional and multi-reasons public relations plot. Most critically are not championing a real “Palestinian State” but rather a castrated, controlled, mini-non-State; albeit with flag and UN membership but sans critical UN resolutions 194, et. al.
What the Israelis now have in mind it seems is designed to present a good-cop face in public, legitimize Apartheid Zionism and the illegal Wall, and ethnically-cleanse by forced “consent”. Moreover the Israelis want to now go around the discredited at-death’s-door “Palestinian Authority” to the Saudis, Qataris, Egyptians, et. al., hoping to entice them into relations, dialogue, and negotiations.
Having taken most Palestinian lands and resources, having divided and killed or imprisoned their leaders, having built their illegal Apartheid Wall and settlements, the Israelis now are trying to double-trick Arab States who a decade ago after 9/11 were severely pressured to put forward something called the “Arab Peace Initiative”.
The super rich but also super fearful Saudis and Qataris — who owe their very existence to the Americans now more than ever — are the main Israeli targets.
The Israelis now want to hook their IPI onto the comatose API and to get the increasingly desperate Arab Kings and potentates to join with them, recognize Israel first de jure then de facto, and help impose a deceptive new paradigm on the Palestinians that will forever disenfranchise and imprison them.
Indeed, getting the Saudis and Arab League into a more public negotiating relationship with them at this critical time in the history of the region is among the major goals — one the Israelis have been working on under-the-table for years, now they have an out-front operation to pursue such goals as well.
The CIA, Mossad, and NYT Tom Friedman, all worked hard on the Saudis after 9/11 to get the API. Now they are pushing hard with the API to bring it back to life at a time when the Apartheid and the Wall have been consolidated and the once long-ago-now Two-State “Solution” has morphed into a grand deception and miserable trap.
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GLOBAL MARCH ON JERUSALEM Tomorrow
29 03 2012The GLOBAL MARCH ON JERSALEM, coordinated with Palestinian LAND DAY, are both tomorrow Friday.
See MIDDLEEAST.org for info and analysis.
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