hug and kiss Palestine goodbye

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/

Two weeks ago, the international community made a shocking declaration.

Giving in to a demand by George Bush, the “Quartet” accepted the “Revised Disengagement Plan” of Ariel Sharon. This means that the United Nations, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States confirmed this document. I wonder if any one of the honorable diplomats has read the document with their own eyes.

In the first paragraph of the “plan”, the following words appear: “Israel has come to the conclusion that at present, there is no Palestinian partner with whom it is possible to make progress on a bilateral peace process.”

That is to say, the international community has confirmed that the Palestinian people has no right to take part in the determination of its own fate. Everything will be decided by the Government of Israel alone, with the backing of the United States, whose position will be automatically accepted by the other partners of the “Quartet”.

The European Union with its 25 member-states, the government of the Russian Federation and the organization that represents the entire world have humbly accepted the edict of Bush, the dictator of the world, who is himself a captive of Sharon. Sharon decided long ago that the elected president of the Palestinian people is “irrelevant”, together with the whole Palestinian leadership.
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the United Nations, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States

and the rest of the world watches.

[ugarte]

1. At least now it's all transparent

Naked colonialism at work.

[Fovea]

2. another damn good reason

for regime change at home.

[forgethell]

3. No one in Palestine

can both stop the violence and is willing to stop the violence. Who the hel should Israel negotiate with, then? And if negotiations are impossible, that is, negotiations that will lead to an Israel still existing, then what is the point? Israel SHOULD take unilateral measures to ensure its own safety.

[Classical_Liberal]

4. Israel's existence is not threatened, not even by suicide bombers

most of whom attack the idf rather than civilians. Arafat surely isn't theatening it and has recognized it several times, most recently he recognized the state of Israel's jewish character. Sharon hyped the no partner for peace in contradiction the the findings of the mossad.

From the article

The former chief of Army Intelligence, General (res.) Amos Malka, who was the direct superior of Gilad, broke his silence of many years and published a thunderous accusation: that Amos Gilad arrived at his "kontseptsia" without any intelligence basis whatsoever. On the contrary, the huge amount of information collected by the intelligence department indicated the very opposite. That is to say, Gilad freely invented his intelligence reports, based on his political views and/or on the desire to please his political bosses, Barak and Sharon.

This grave accusation raised a storm in professional circles. Intelligence operatives of undoubted integrity emerged from their anonymity in order to support Malka publicly. They were headed by the man who, at the relevant time, was in charge of the Army Intelligence section for Palestinian affairs, Colonel Ephraim Lavie, who was then responsible for the collection of all intelligence material about the Palestinian leadership. There is no doubt that in the professional confrontation between Amos and Amos, Amos Malka emerged as the victor.

This means, in simple words: there was no intelligence material at all backing the assertion that Arafat is working for the destruction of the State of Israel, that Arafat had broken off the peace process in order to start a terror campaign, that Arafat is not ready for a reasonable compromise. All these assertions, uttered by diverse Israeli politicians and generals, were based on the “assessment” of one man who, while appearing to represent the intelligence department, was actually suppressing the considered professional reports of his own department, as well as of the General Security Service (Shabak).

When the debate heated up, the orientalist Matti Steinberg, a former advisor on Palestinian affairs to the chief of the Shabak, joined the fray. Steinberg not only confirmed that Gilad’s “kontseptsia” was completely false and contradicted the intelligence material assembled by his own people, but he also asserted that Gilad’s conception “fulfilled its own prophecy”.

Since Israel is immeasurably stronger than the Palestinians, its actions create reality. The acts guided by Gilad’s “kopntseptsia” created results that suited it. Much as the “kontseptsia” of Eli Za’ira, the intelligence chief at the time of the Yom Kippur war, resulted in catastrophe, thus the “kontseptsia” of Amos Gilad caused – and is still causing – the disasters of the present intifada.

[Loreths]

5. hmm

I disagree with the statement you made "most of whom attack the idf rather than civilians"...that is simply false. The suicide bombers attack 90 percent civilian areas with civilian deaths. Gunmen are the one who normally attack the IDF. The NYT put the death toll of civilian death in Israel to suicide bombers at 94 percent of the total deaths in this ongoing conflict.

[Lithos]

6. Locking Per I/P guidelines

Subject line is not the same as the article title.

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