"Occupied
Palestine was not and will never be the historic land of the Jewish people, and
Obama knows it. He studied law at the greatest American universities and is well
acquainted with history. He knows the enormity of the injustice inflicted on the
Palestinian people due to the rape by these same Jewish people whose land and
country he speaks of with such deep respect."
In his speech to the opening
of the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Barack Obama expressed
his belief that there is an opportunity for reaching an agreement that would lead
to establishing a Palestinian state that would join the United Nations as a
member next year. But he didn’t say how this state would be established, what it's borders would be, neither the extent to which it will
enjoy sovereignty and independence.
Perhaps the American
President doesn’t want to jump into these basic criteria for creating an independent
country, because quite simply, he's not too clear about them, or wants to leave
them for direct negotiations now being sponsored by his country which involve
two parties, one representing the Palestinian authority in Ramallah, and the
other representing the state of Israel. Perhaps Obama is treading carefully
because it's presumed that these negotiations are meant to lead to an agreement
on a final status for occupied Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, borders and water.
The U.S. president is adept
at delivering powerful, fascinating speeches that are carefully formulated and
embroidered. But speeches are one thing and the situation on the ground is quite
another, since countries aren't established by speeches and good intentions, but
serious work, and firm, unwavering positions.
What the U.S. president said
about suffering and the coexistence of children of both parties living side by
side in peace and stability are beautiful words, but the expression of greatest
import in his speech, and which suggests a vision that will lead to more
dangerous violence and war, was the one relating to the Jewish identity of
Israel. He said clearly and unequivocally that “Israel is a sovereign state, and
the historic homeland of the Jewish people,” and called on those who signed the
Arab peace initiative, “seize this opportunity to make it real by taking
tangible steps toward the normalization that it promises Israel."
We are surprised by the utterance
of such a speech by a head of state that leads the free world, sets an example
of coexistence between religions, races and cultures in an atmosphere of
equality, and that embraces the values of democracy and the rule of law.
Occupied
Palestine was not and will never be the historic land of the Jewish people, and
President Obama knows this well. He studied law at the greatest American
universities and is well acquainted with history. He knows the enormity of the injustice
inflicted on the Palestinian people due to the rape by these same Jewish people
whose land and country he speaks of with such deep respect.
Posted
by WORLDMEETS.US
President Obama, who is an
intellectual, should not support a state that wants to confirm its racist-religious
identity and impose it on others by force of arms and American support, since
that could lead to the expulsion of 1.5 million Christians and Muslims who are
true sons of the land, and prevent the return of 5 million refugees to the land
of their fathers and grandfathers.
The current negotiations
under the auspices of Obama's government are illegitimate, because they are based
on falsified Palestinian representation, and seek to impose a settlement
according to terms of conditions set by Israel. Mr. Mahmoud Abbas has no
mandate from the Palestinian people to make concessions on behalf of his people,
who have had their civil rights forfeited, particularly their right of return and
the restoration of the whole of occupied Jerusalem.
There would be no honor in seeing
a disfigured Palestinian state at the United Nations that embodies the
deprivation of inalienable Palestinian rights that have already been confirmed
by the U.N. itself, including the right of return for Palestinian refugees, which
is the basis of the Palestinian issue. Nor would there be anything but shame in
exchanging Jerusalem, the symbol of honor and dignity for over a billion and a
half Muslims, for a handful of Negev desert dust.
