[Al-Ahram, Egypt]

Al Bayane, Morocco

Israel's 'Blinding Deafness'

"The international community knows that it must confront the radicalization of the Israeli establishment. … The fight against Islamist terrorism certainly demands a final solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem. To believe anything else is to have ignited the fire!"

By Allal El Maleh

Translated By Sandrine Ageorges

August 4, 2009

Morocco - Al Bayane - Original Article (French)

They are correct - all those Israeli intellectuals, beginning with the historians, who are ever-more insistently questioning the very future of the state created in 1948. The big question that hangs over everyone's mind is the sustainability of this entity, built at the expense of the Palestinian people. In short, the Zionist transplant doesn't seem to have taken well to its Middle East environment. Of course, out of this existential question, a process of negotiation should have emerged to bring peace to the brave. But it must be said that the current mechanism, which began in the euphoria of the Madrid Conference of 1991, quickly revealed itself to be inadequately matched with the legitimate and internationally-recognized aspirations of the Palestinian people. And it is around this Gordian knot that negotiation, and henceforth the instability of the world, hinges.

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It's not for nothing that the U.S. administration, lead by Barack Obama, is now attempting to break the deadlock in the peace process. And Washington isn't the only capital city in the world battling over this region of instability. Yet Israelis officials are showing the worse kind of deafness a state can display. The ruling coalition, one of the most extremist since the Israeli political system was founded, doesn't intend to make any concessions to those whose rights have been deprived. On the contrary, they are increasingly tormenting the Palestinian people - torn apart on two separate pieces of territory ...

Hamas and Fatah - the inter-Palestinian dialogue: 'Of course

we want a solution to the Palestinian problem. But we hope

the problem is never resolved.'

[Al-Masry Al-Yom, Egypt]

That's to say nothing of the Diaspora. Tel Aviv is fueling the atmosphere of radicalism while insulting the future. The Israelis want it all, and offer nothing in return. This is reflected by their growing temptation to steal Al-Qods [Jerusalem], the status of which should have been the subject of a negotiated deal to make it the capital of a viable Palestinian state. The process of “Judaizing” this holy city is progressing with the heavy sound of jack boots - and even if this allows Iran to use it as an outlet for such radicalization.  

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The international community knows that it must confront the radicalization of the Israeli establishment. Their deafness is blinding in the case of the disposition of Jerusalem, without even mentioning the other outstanding problems. Neither Obama's special envoy nor Tony Blair has managed to be heard ... and a fortiori make the voice of reason heard by the irresponsible ones in Tel Aviv who have decided in the place of the international community. This outrageous position doesn't honor the actors who play "envoy of the lord" [missi dominici] as it confronts them with their own failure. Thus, should we close our eyes to the tragedies unfolding in a confined space in which the slightest spark could set the region on course to a complete conflagration? This is the dark perspective looming on the horizon.

[Al-Ahram, Egypt]

The international community - and first of all the Arab world - is called upon to react strongly. Because an excess of injustice produces a sum of frustration - and with incalculable consequences. The fight against Islamist terrorism certainly demands a final solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem. To believe anything else is to have ignited the fire!

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