Anybody remember the Oslo accords signed in Washington by Rabin, Arafat and Clinton. The accords were also signed by Abbas, the present leader of the palestinian arabs. The details have faded, as has the writing on the accords. Israel gave a finger and the palestinians took the whole hand. Then in the year 2000, along comes Barak, the Israeli Prime Minister at the time, and at Camp David, in the presence of Bill Clinton, offered Arafat a state based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital! Arafat rejected this out of hand and started a war.
Watching Bill Clinton on CNN recently, basically blaming Netanyahu for the impasse in negotiations with the palestinians, the most notable feature of the man was how badly he had aged. The thought lingered that perhaps he was having memory problems, and then I remembered the politicians creed....The public has a short memory. The Clinton foundation is financed in the most by Saudi Arabia. His once pro-Israel former New York senator wife is now Secretary of State. Its no wonder politicians give one a feeling of slime......
So they either rely on the public's short memory, or they make statements omitting relevant facts. For example, in the same year that Clinton and Barak were offering Arafat the whole cookie jar, Israel in the name of peace, withdrew from Lebanon. The same lebanon controlled today by Hizbullah and supplied by Syria and Iran.The same lebanon who fired thousands of missiles on Israeli cities. Not convinced? In 2005 israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in the name of peace. Gaza is today controlled by Hamas, islamic jihad, Iran and continues to fire missiles at Israel's southern cities.
CNN calls this selective memory "creating opinion by omission". It interferes with their arab spring agenda. Not quite sure who slithers more, a snake, the left wing media or Washington.
"We will never recognise Israel as a Jewish State, so quit asking". Who said that? Mahmoud Abbas said this only last week . The palestinian rep to the US says the palestinian state will be free of Jews. "Judenrein". The only conclusion is that they want a Palestinian State in place of Israel, not alongside Israel. By their own admission, the two state solution is dead. This author officially concurs. In fact, digging back into the past it should be quite clear that the two state solution was never an option! We further concur with hamas leader, Haniyeh who states it quite simply "...States are not built upon UN resolutions. States liberate their land and establish their entities,"(Reuters). Despite the UN resolution in 1948, Israel had to establish the state by force.
It might possibly be imagination, but their seems to be a distinct shift in perceptions as regards the Middle East.
The fact that the palestinians did not get the support they have automatically come to expect at the UN must have surprised them. Even certain arab countries pressed them to forego the bid (By Abbas' own admission).It looks like the arab spring has let the cat out of the bag and many countries are reconsidering their positions. The Quartet proposal that has just been tabled does not mention the 1967 borders or the settlements.
Mr Abbas and a few others like Erdogan and Ahminedejad can continue to flap their lips and contribute to global warming with a lot of hot air, but change, if it comes, will come on the ground. Mark my words, the world is changing, and despite the rhetoric, the change is not necessarily positive for the arab world.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners (adapters) who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists - Eric Hoffer
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