Israel
Egotiates With Bulldozer Blades And Hydraulic Jackhammers
16 January 2011By Khalid
Amayreh
As
Hillary Clinton sought a stronger
"alliance" with the Gulf's Arab states, America's real
friend and client, which is Israel, was demolishing
yet another Arab property in occupied East Jerusalem.
The demolished building was the Shepherd hotel, which
served once as home to the former
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the
late Haj Amin Husseini.
The demolition of the highly symbolic building was
carried out despite objections from many quarters,
including the European Union and Obama administration.
The visibly helpless Palestinian Authority (PA) once
again appealed to the international community to take
a strong stand against Israel.
"This intransigent and illegal behavior on behalf of
Israel must not be allowed to proceed unchecked," said
Chief Palestinian negotiator Sa'eb Ureikat.
He added with desperation and frustration clear in the
tone of his voice "what is happening today is part of
the political program of the Israeli government to
preempt any solution on
Jerusalem . While Netanyahu
continues his public relations campaign regarding the
peace process, on the ground he is rapidly moving to
prevent the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian
state.
"Israel continues to change the landscape of Jerusalem
aiming to change its status and turn it into an
exclusive Jewish city. This process of cleansing and
colonization must be stopped to change the dark
reality of Israeli occupation into free and sovereign
Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital."
Ureikat's exhausted words, which had been uttered ad
nauseam but to no avail, are most likely to fall on
deaf or indifferent ears in the West especially in
Washington where the Obama administration has
discovered, probably belatedly, that it would be the
ultimate loser in any confrontation with the current
Israeli government, the most hawkish in Israel's
history.
Clinton, who has toured the
Gulf Arab states to instigate
their sheikhs and emirs against
Iran ,
has renewed US rejection of any Palestinian effort to
seek redress at the United Nations, even to complain
about the ongoing and unrelenting Jewish settlement
expansion.
"We continue to believe strongly that New York is not
the place to resolve the longstanding conflict and
outstanding issues between the Israelis and the
Palestinians," Clinton said. "We do not think that
that is a productive path for the Palestinians or
anyone to pursue."
Clinton, a close friend of AIPAC who recently offered
to give Israel the best of the best of the American
military technology just in return for Israel agreeing
to freeze settlement building for 90 days, gave no
ideas as to how to revive a peace process constantly
undercut by unmitigated settlement expansion and
ethnic cleansing all over the
West
Bank, especially
East Jerusalem.
However, seeking to appear as if the US was still
really "involved " and playing a central role, Clinton
signaled that the Obama administration was pushing
wealthy Arab sheikhdoms and emirates to increase their
financial assistance to the Ramallah regime, mainly in
the hope of making it come to terms with-or at least
keep silent about- the devouring by Israel of the
remainder of East Jerusalem.
One Palestinian Authority official , who is close to
the negotiations department intimated this week that
Hillary Clinton
told an American Jewish politician not to worry about
what the Palestinians might or might not do.
"We will keep their mouths shut with money, and the
money will not come from the American tax-payer."
The American policy of bribing the PA into silence,
which means, at least in de facto terms, coming to
terms with the Israeli fait accompli, goes far beyond
requesting more money from the Gulf Sheikhdoms and
emirates for the PA to be happy and afloat. (The head
of the PA monetary Fund Jehad al Wazir has affirmed
that the PA financial standing is excellent). In fact,
USAID has lately supervised the pavement with asphalt
of thousands of kilometers West Bank roads.
Locals in the town of Dura , 12 kilometers south west
of
Hebron
, voiced their surprise at the efficiency and speed
with which the paving and rehabilitation of their
roads have been done.
"We haven't seen this kind of work since 1967. It
seems they want to satisfy us by all means," said one
of the locals.
But what he didn't know is important. The projects
being carried out by such American organizations such
as USAID hedge on "good behavior" on the part of the
PA.
Needless to say, for those who don't understand what
connotations and denotations "good PA behavior" has,
they should pay attention to the PA clinging to the
futile peace process despite continuing Israeli
provocations. This PA embrace of the process, however
reluctant, constitutes "good behavior" as far
Washington is concerned and is sufficient to keep the
influx of US aid going through.
There is no doubt that the Obama administration will
keep up the game of cajoling the PA and other
"moderate" Arab regimes either by making vague
promises or by displaying disingenuous consternation
about unilateral Israeli behavior, such as the
demolition of Arab property in Jerusalem.
Eventually, what counts is not what Clinton , a
thoroughly Zionist-minded political whore devoid of
any sliver of honesty or immorality, says but what
the US does.
And what the US is doing is no less than enabling
Israel to liquidate the Palestinian cause with the de
facto consent of a pornographically mendacious and
manifestly treasonous Palestinian entity that claims
to be protecting the inalienable rights of the
Palestinian rights.
We in Palestine say that all that is based on wrong is
wrong. Hence, there is no doubt that all these
conspiracies, lies and prevarications will not produce
a just peace in this land, tormented by racism,
violence and bloodshed.
And even if certain arrangements were to be reached by
way of deception and manipulation of the game of
international politics, these arrangements wouldn't
live long and be durable.
Because all that is based on wrong is wrong. (end)
Khalid Amayreh is a journalist living
in Palestine. He obtained his MA in journalism from
the University of Southern Illinois in 1983. Since the
1990s, Mr. Amayreh has been working and writing for
several news outlets among which is Aljazeera.net, Al-Ahram
Weekly, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), and
Middle East International. This articles and several
writings of Mr. Amayreh available at The Palestinian
Information Center via
https://english.palinfo.com
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