From: Mazin Qumsiyeh
Tue, Jul 30, 2013 03:28 PM
I will be in Japan giving a series of lectures on Israel-Palestine
situation (explaining apartheid, popular resistance, nuclear weapons, and
advocating for the only viable sustainable solution: one democratic secular
state). Please tell your Japanese friends that they can find my schedule
(in Japanese) at http://qumsiyeh.org/upcomingevents/
Public Negotiations began amid great fanfare in Washington DC. Saeb Ereklat
sat next to a war criminal (Tsipi Livni who is responsible for massacre of
hundreds of civilians in Gaza) and across from the Israeli lobbyist Indyk
(representing the US) after giving up on the requirement (that is part of
Oslo and the Road map) for a settlement freeze and settling for informal
verbal assurances. This is the same Erekat who has been fruitlessly
negotiating for 20 years along the sa,e lines (hence his book titled
Life is negotiations ). It is the same person who the Palestine Papers
leaked to AlJazeera was shown giving one after another concession while the
Israeli side yawned and asked for more (see
http://www.aljazeera.com/palestinepapers/).
But most disturbingly, Abbas and Erekat accepted Martin Indyk as a US key
broker in the talks. Indyk was appointed as US envoy to the peace
process . Indyk will broker the deal between Erekat and Livni even though
Indyk is a Zionist Jew who was an Israeli lobbyist. Indyk took leave of
absence from the Zionist group the Brookings institute in Washington DC. A
major funder of this institute is Haim Saban (see more about Saban at
http://www.mediamonitors.net/mazin32.html). Indyk first worked in
Washington for the 'Washington Institute for Near East Policy' (WINEP), an
offshoot of AIPAC (Israel s lobby). Indyk did not have US citizenship but
this was quickly corrected with a speeded up process of facilitation,
nomination, and approval (all in less than two weeks) by President Clinton
in order to appoint him (this is rather unberlievable) as US ambassador to
Israel. Appointing a lobbyist for a foreign country as US ambassador to
that country is unprecedented. Now appointing a wolf to broker the deal
between another wolf and a chicken is quite a feat. We will see how fast
this chicken will get fleeced.
Ya alon said, Releasing prisoners came as a result of choosing a bad
option over a worse option We reached the decision to avoid the worse
[option]. Many strategic considerations, which may be revealed in the
future, stood behind this, and hence we must go forward with a release of
pre-Oslo prisoners.
Netanyahu said it even more clearly: that he refused to accept borders of
1967 or a settlement freeze and that this move to negotiations is merely to
strengthen Israeli positions.
Palestinian Authority police prevent a Palestinian march and attack
demonstrators who object to the unilateral decision by Abu Mazen to return
to negotiations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbAkYyw3u7c
Analysis: Palestinians should invest in a Plan B By Daoud Kuttab
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=598851
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
http://qumsiyeh.org
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