Just days before the latest round of “preliminary” peace talks are set to begin, the Israeli government has thrown the process into further doubt by announcing a massive new expansion of some 1,200 settlement units into the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian negotiators were quick to condemn the announcement, saying that it added further doubts to Israel’s commitment to the peace talks. Israel had been reported to have agreed to only announce a single 1,000 unit expansion during the entire course of the process, and is leaping well beyond that already.
While Israel’s move could be expected to spark condemnation internationally, Housing Minister Uri Ariel was quick to lash the Palestinians, saying that “no country in the world would take orders on where it could build its homes.” Apparently that even includes building them in someone else’s country.
Announcements surrounding planned settlement expansions and the planned destruction of yet more Palestinian villages have left many convinced that the “nine-month” timeline for the peace talks is designed to be the beginning and the end of the process, with both sides trying to get what they can out of it before allowing its eventual collapse.
The only language that Israel ever will understand is for the west stop talking but reacting toward the apartheid regime, a UN resolution that boycotts Israel both economically and politically: look Israel is not better then Saddam Hussein regime was, Israel is not better then the Iranian regime is, Israel in its 60 years of being a apartheid regime is not better then all the other country that USA and EU have a embargo against, Saddam Hussein never steal anything from his neighbors, Iranian the same, so as all the other countries boycotted by USA and EU yet israel is stealing the Palestinian lands again and again.., yet the west wants to talk.., for last 40 years the west been talking while the Israeli regime been busy stealing the Palestinians land and their freedoms.
Looks like a real big success for Kerry The Clown.
I'm not a Kerry fan nor advocate but I'm sure he wasn't consulted before the announcement. It's evident that the Israelis do not and have not been invested in a 2-state solution. The statement that “no country in the world would take orders on where it could build its homes” is evidence that the only solution they are working toward is the removal of all Palestinians from the land the Israelis covet.
I am continually amazed how the USG can ignore the actions of the Israelis government which is blatantly opposed to their stated intentions of a peace settlement process.
The terrorist state of Israel never surprises. Now more than ever a boycott of all Israeli goods, and services must be implemented. Zionists do not negotiate with anyone, which is why the process has always been failure. Furthermore, having the biased, and mendacious USA at the helm guarantee's ultimate doom for any talks to thrive..period.
I always find these discussions of Israel Kafkaesque. We have a world of two conflicting realities, one of talk and one of action. There is talk of peace, all fantastical. Then there is action, the ongoing reality of continual Zionist expansion. Rarely, or so it seems to me, is the conflict between the two itself discussed, so that the obvious conclusion can be drawn, and the discussion resumed in a form reflecting that conclusion: the Zionist program proceeds apace with its original aim unchanged: the conquest and settlement of all of Palestine.
If one were to say, "Okay, the Zionist are gradually absorbing all of Palestine, and their influence in the capitals of the world suggests that in terms of action, no power of consequence will intervene." Of course, there will be no end of "talks". For reality to proceed, it must be obscured by the fantastical.
If such a statement were to be made, then an obvious question would suggest itself: "Since the Zionists clearly want a Jewish state, then in the end, when the conquest is complete, how will they deal with their "Arab Problem"? (Which is to say their "Palestinian Problem". As part of their ridiculous effort to erase the Palestinians from the historical narrative, the Zionists never use the term "Palestinian".) They can't let the current West Bank Palestinians become Israelis. They won't let the refugee Palestinians of the diaspora return to what is now Israel. (And do not doubt that the unwanted and unwelcome Israeli "Arab citizens", must also eventually be included as part of the Zionist "Arab Problem".) What is to be "done" with these contaminating elements, these obstacles to the Zionist program?
Is this question inflammatory? No doubt. But rest easy, the "talks" continue. So long as they do, the question need never come up.
Convenient, that.