In comments Monday to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) annual leadership conference, President Obama’s top Mideast aide Dennis Ross insisted that the Obama Administration has been “consistent” in its opposition to recognizing Palestinian statehood.
Ross insisted that a Palestinian state could never be created by a UN resolution, but only through agreement by the Israeli forces to tolerate its creation. The Palestinian Authority has been pushing for international recognition.
But this effort is coming not as a way of undercutting direct talks with Israel, but as a consequence of those talks breaking down in September when Israel restarted the settlement construction. Israeli officials have repeatedly insisted since them that peace is entirely impossible, and many in the government have ruled out ever allowing Palestinian statehood.
Early in 2009 President Obama talked up the possibility of allowing a “demilitarized” Palestinian state, but after some half-hearted attempts to convince the Israeli government to stop expanding settlements into the territory of that future state failed, the idea seems to have been dropped. The official stance now seems to echo previous administrations, praising Israel on general principle while condemning the PA for taking grievances to the UN.
Look what part of the words Boycott Israel is this administration or for that matter EU government doesn’t understand.., is in English and it could be in Hebrew if they translated the words. That is to say is the only language that Israel would understand is for EU and US and rest of the world to boycott Israel both in terms of political and economics…, period. They been stealing the Palestinians land for years and they been told for years to stop it.., that never happened and it will never happens unless they all boycott Israel and see what Israel can or willing to do., what are they afraid of.., that Israel might use their atomic bombs on EU and US…, is that what is all about.., then I think US and EU air force needs to take it out before they start boycotting Israel.
Obama is fund raising so he needs Jewish money. Blood money is always kind of criminal. Aren't we fortunate the Nazis no longer run Europe otherwise they, too, would be funding our Presidents today. Come to think of it, more than one country owns our Congress, too. Thank you, free trade policies!
This is United States' tax dollars being used by Israel to 'BUY' the American Congress. Just readn the Fullbright hearings on money laundered back to the U.S. to buy politicians. Even if Obama wanted to stand up to israel, Congress would over-ride a veto. The people of the world must stand up to Israel — nuclear weapons or not!
I don't see the point in merely setting up a bantustan.They should push for full civil rights in Israel.
emsnews said "Aren't we fortunate the Nazis no longer run Europe " they still do and USA included,under a new name NATO
Unfortunately the American nation has turned to cowardish one, unable to resist it-s cancer : the fifth column, and unable to stand for the human and civilised principles , it was founded on.
Supporting the Nazi Israeli regime is the lowest point of US. Their political gang thinks only on the izraeli bribes not about the people it represents. What a pity and what a shame…
Dennis Ross, (former APAC member) is the US representative in Isreal-Palestine peace talks. Good Lord, we're not even trying to appear fair. Has it gotten that bad? Occupied Palestine, occupied Golan Heights, occupied US Congress, and now occupied White House. What is sad about Obama is how fast he defalted, or how stupid we were to believe him. Some "change" when the entire appointed government is former Clinton staff.
Some "change" when the entire appointed government is former Clinton staff.
Actually, nothing is further from the truth. His staff is equal parts Bush leftovers and Wall Street. That's actually worse than Bill Clinton leftovers in my view.
Hey, at least the guy is consistent on something not just his inconsistencies. And, yeah, let him continue to blindly support Israel that's paying off real nicely for everybody.
Was the country of Israel establlished by a action of the United Nations? So why would it be wrong for them to give the people of Palestine equal opportunity? Dennis Roiss will continue to project an approach to the problem that will always be in favor of his people. It is not a policy that I can support and the fact that the world tolerates a modern country holding 4-5 million hostage in their own land is a travesty of justice. Dennis Ross must go.
"Was the country of Israel establlished by a action of the United Nations?"
No, it wasn't.
The United Nations passed a partition plan which allowed for co-extant Jewish and Arab states (with reciprocal civil rights guarantees).
The putative representatives of Palestine's Jewish population accepted that plan. There's your "giving [the Arabs who lived in the 10% of Palestine not already under control of the Arab state of Transjordan, now Jordan] equal opportunity."
The putative representatives of that 10% of Palestine's Arab population — and the official representatives of the region's Arab governments, including Transjordan, which ruled 90% of Palestine already — refused that plan.
So, Palestine's Jewish population declared the state of Israel on its own hook — then made that declaration stick by fending off invasion by five Arab armies, largely supported by Palestine's indigenous Arab population and overtly supported by the UK in terms of handing over key strong points, abducting/interning and/or murdering Jewish immigrants who might fight for Israel, and arming, training and seconding leadership to Transjordan's "Arab Legion."
That's not to say that every Israeli action was or is justified, or even to say that they shouldn't recognize a second or even third Arab state in Palestine in addition to Jordan's 90%, but those opinions should be supported by the real historical facts, not whatever bullshit propaganda makes you feel best about the situation.
Is the country of Israel in violation of several UN Security Council mandates that it return to the previously accepted UN boundaries? If this is true, why doesn't NATO or some other military force march them back and make them comply with the motions? And your answer that "might is right" might just be right on. The denial of self determination of the Palestinian people in their own lands is an egregious international crime.
No, Thomas, you're incorrect. The Palestinians never had a say in the UN decision to dispossess them of their land. Palestine then was a British mandate, so the voice of the native Arabs wasn't allowed be heard. "Israel" was not attacked by 5 Arab armies, it was attacked by ill-armed disparate groups, which "Israel" easily repulsed.
Your reference to Transjordan is that old zionist trick of denying the status of Palestinian Arabs, for Israeli leaders dearly wish all Palestinian Arabs would simply re-locate to Jordan, as if it were a some real estate deal.
Why should the Palestinians ever agree to their dispossession? This dispossession is not just a historical fact, it continues today, through Israel making life so miserable for the native Arab population in the apartheid state the zionists have created through stealing land, stealing resources such as water, illegally settling occupied land, murder, internment, kidnapping, massacre, degradation, piracy, restrictions on movement etc. All of course with the approval of that paragon of virtue, The U.S.A.
Mr. Knapp. Balfour (1917) and The United Nations 1947 had no right to give away somebody else’s land to a group of people without a land. In 1948 the Zionist mostly East European immigrant (convert) Jewish population was still a minority. Anyway Israel forfeited its legitimacy by not abiding and ignoring all UN Resolutions since its very inception. Metaphorically is Israel a state built on quicksand, the weight of its armaments is slowly making it sink; already becoming quite clear to the discerning observer.
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Washington does what Israel tells it to do.
Why do the Palestinians believe establishing a separate state would be good? Or the Zionists believe that it would be bad for them? It would give the Zionists a much better target to destroy. And they could murder at will without being accused of apartied anymore. Genocide perhaps but murder of the Palestinians would hardly be that, there are other Arabs, christians, and moslems around besides the unfortunate Palestinians. Besides, the Zionists would be giving up mostly land that was originally Jordan, except of course Hebron which they could surely find a way to steal.