Palestinian
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The Israeli government and
Palestinian
political leaders are locked in a ruinous struggle, which merely aids extremists on both sides.
Israel will have to vacate a large number of Jewish settlements on
Palestinian
territory, and accept joint international administration or division of Jerusalem.
They include: India’s Ashwini, a visually impaired champion for disabled children;Attal, who created a girls school in his family kitchen in Afghanistan;Shweta who grew up in a South Asian brothel and created a support group for trafficked and abused girls; and Salyne, whose organization, Teach For Lebanon, is helping to educate many of the country’s half-million Syrian and
Palestinian
refugees.
Israel is closer to Nicosia than to Berlin, not only in geographic but also in political terms, because successive Israeli and
Palestinian
leaders have likewise failed to demonstrate qualities of vision and imagination.
This time, the call went out for an end to the
Palestinian
Intifada and for Israelis and Palestinians to reach a final peace agreement.
But such a deal became impossible precisely because the Intifada had raised
Palestinian
expectations to such heights that it became impossible for Israel to meet them.
It is unrealistic to believe that transferring to the Palestinians tax revenues that are owed to them, removing a limited number of checkpoints in the occupied West Bank, and even releasing 250 Fatah prisoners “with no blood on their hands” will calm the
Palestinian
volcano, and thus enhance
Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas’s leadership and Fatah’s edge over Hamas.
And, by mortgaging his entire Middle East policy to the concept of an “ideological confrontation” against the forces of evil, Bush is putting his entire strategy on the weary shoulders of a defeated
Palestinian
president without really providing him with the necessary tools.
No Israeli government will risk making a far-reaching peace offer to a
Palestinian
Authority whose rule is characterized by abdication and anarchy.
On his home front, he needs to cultivate, at the lowest possible price, an image as a champion of the
Palestinian
cause.
But the credibility of such demands is undermined by the Arabs’ inability to alleviate
Palestinian
misery and, no less importantly, by their failure to help the Palestinians face the hard choices they will need to make if an orderly
Palestinian
state is ever to emerge.
European policy thus revolved around simultaneously seducing Israel and bribing the
Palestinian
Authority.
Palestinians continued to trivialize Europe’s contribution, and Israelis to loathe it for “financing
Palestinian
terror.”
Any meaningful Arab-Israeli peace depends on Israel’s return of
Palestinian
territories, with certain conditions, but no Israeli government will be willing or even able to do so unless the political calculus inside Israel changes.
Will
Palestinian
Reconciliation Revive the Two-State Solution?
RAMALLAH – When representatives of the two major
Palestinian
factions, Fatah and Hamas, signed a new reconciliation agreement in Cairo on October 12, the focus was not on those actually doing the signing, Fatah Central Committee member Azzam al-Ahmad and Deputy Head of the Hamas Politburo Saleh al-Arouri.
This revival of
Palestinian
national politics largely reflects the recent shift in Hamas’ stance, which follows years of trials for the Sunni Islamist organization.
The group quickly and unconditionally accepted President Mahmoud Abbas’s three demands: to dissolve the Hamas-led administrative committee, to allow the Ramallah-based
Palestinian
government to resume its role in Gaza, and to allow presidential and parliamentary elections to take place in both Gaza and the West Bank.
In order to achieve an independent
Palestinian
state along pre-1967 borders, both actors will need to work with both the US, under President Donald Trump, and Israel, under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Even that futile scenario might be optimistic, as it assumes that talks get off the ground – an impossible feat, if Israel continues its illegal construction of settlements in the occupied
Palestinian
territories.
That resolution demanded “that Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied
Palestinian
territory, including East Jerusalem” – activities that amount to a “flagrant violation under international law.”
Egypt certainly does, having made it clear that a divided
Palestinian
leadership without a public mandate, like the one to be delivered by new elections, will be unable to carry out serious negotiations or win popular support for any eventual agreement.
If they aren’t, the recent
Palestinian
reconciliation, however positive, will not mark the beginning of the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In the
Palestinian
Authority, a democratically elected president offers the hope of a new chance for peace.
The Goldstone ReversalNEW YORK – Justice Richard Goldstone was condemned by many apologists for Israel’s human-rights record for his conclusion that Israel intentionally targeted
Palestinian
civilians as a matter of policy during the 2008-9 Gaza war.
A show of devastating force, with limited Israeli casualties at the price of an unlimited number of
Palestinian
civilian casualties, is no longer internationally sustainable.
Bush’s Latest BlunderThe Bush administration is once again committing a major policy blunder in the Middle East by actively supporting the Israeli government in its refusal to recognize a
Palestinian
unity government that includes Hamas.
This precludes any progress toward a peace settlement at a time when progress on the
Palestinian
problem could help avert conflagration in the greater Middle East.
The US and Israel seek to deal only with the president of the
Palestinian
Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.
Many of the causes of the current impasse go back to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s decision to withdraw from the Gaza Strip unilaterally, without negotiating with the then-Fatah-controlled
Palestinian
Authority.
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