Comments on: Khalid Amayreh – Netanyahu’s Kafkaesque vision of Palestinian statehood

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:17:00 +0000

The handwriting is on the wall. Sooner or later, the U.S. will have no option other than to end its "special relationship" with or – with reference to George Washington's Farewell Speech – "passionate attachment" to Israel. The simple truth is that Israel is America's number one geopolitical liability and day by day, it is becoming more so. Israel faces the same fate as all other settler/colonial states dependent on another country in decline thousands of miles away, i.e. abandonment. The real "powers that be" in the U.S. understand this and increasingly see Israel as a big piece of doo doo on America's shoe. History will record that the "scraping off" began in earnest with the Obama administration. Sooner or later all "great powers" act in their best interests and America's best interests are being rapidly eroded and threatened by racist expansionist Israel, an historical anachronism, a blip in history. Many Jews understand this. Hence, the torrent of Jewish emigration from Israel and the trickle of immigrants.

By: Ariadna Theokopoulos

Ariadna Theokopoulos — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:23:47 +0000

I do not belive this at all:
"President Obama who thought rather naively that nice words about peace would make the Israeli leadership change its fascistic mindset and reconsider it colonialist approach toward the Palestinian people."

I don't see Obama, who takes his instructions on anything to do with Israel from Rahm Emmanuel, as wanting anything like a change in Israel's "colonialist approach toward the Palestinian people," which would be tantamount to asking Israel to cease being Israel.
I think that the huge American stage is a shadow play of tinybut vicious Israeli politics, where the Israeli Left (the talk-peace–bewail-the-absence-of-a-Palestinian-partner–make-offers-impossible-to-accept-so-the old–never-miss-an-opportunity-to-miss-an-opportunity-lie-can-be-trotted-out-again–while-expanding-settlements-and-finalizing-the-destruction-of-Palestinians-as-a-people Left) is fighting with the Israeli Right (the Sharonesque-in-your-face-cynicism-that-doesn't-hide-behind-the-finger-because-the-despised-world-community-is-cowardly-and-Americans-don't-tell-us-what-to-do–we-tell-them–what-to-do Right).
Obama is asking Netanyahu to be more like Ehud Barak, that's all: Talk softly and send the bulldozers in.

By: Shaukat

Shaukat — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:30:59 +0000

Beside the terrified former Israel Occupation Force Captain Benjamin Netanyahu’s usual Zionist rhetorics against Hamas, Hizb’Allah and its supporter Islamic Iran – being the greatest threat to world peace – The best part of his speech was his offer of without preconditions: “Let’s begin negotiations immediately without preconditions….” We must give credit to Bibi for explainig to us what he meant by without preconditions – while the zionist entity would maintain world’s fifth largest army: “The territory under Palestinian control must be demilitarised with ironclad security provisions for Israel. Without these two conditions, there is a real danger that an armed Palestinian state would emerge that would become another terrorist base against the Jewish state, such as the one in Gaza…. In order to achieve peace, we must ensure that Palestinians will not be able to import missiles into their territory (while Zionist entity imports billion of dollars’ worth arms each year), to field an army, to close their airspace to us, or to make pacts with the likes of Hizbollah and Iran. On this point as well, there is wide consensus within Israel.” Now, am I the only one who see Bibi’s offer as conditional?….

http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/bibis-great-offer/

By: sami jamil jadallah

sami jamil jadallah — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:39:30 +0000

Let us not forget that it was the late Yasser Arafat and his PLO that gave full recognition to Israel without having the mental brain to define which Israel he was recognizing. In fact what he and the Oslo Team did was to recognize is Israel with its permanent army and settler’s occupation, with Israel extending from the sea to the river. What did Arafat and the Palestinians got in exchange for this? Israel recognized Arafat as the leader of the Palestinian people (TOZ) and of course the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinian people ruling out any other organization that is not Fatah dominated PLO TOZ/TOZ. That is why the Oslo Team is so desperate to stay in charge and insist on the role of the PLO in the negotiations when in fact there is simply no PLO, there are Abbas, Qurai, Saeb, Abed-Rabou, Tayeb Abdul-Raheem and Farouk Qadoumi. In Taba, Arafat agreed to the idea of a land swap. Thus he, Qurai and Abbas have agreed to give up prime real estate in Jerusalem in favor of some toxic waste dump in the desert. Oslo Team is not yet done with Palestine. Their mission is to complete the job they started in Oslo, which is perpetual Jewish Occupation in exchange for perpetual financial support for the PA/Fatah and the PLO. One has to wonder what Abu-Diss is worth to Israel and for Qurai? At no time did any Israeli leaders including Rabin, Peres, Olmert ever gave recognition to Palestine, never. And people celebrate Arafat as a hero? He was nothing but a big fraud.

By: Debbie Menon

Debbie Menon — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:43:27 +0000

I think O'Baba will back off a bit, and reorganize his stance and footing, before he moves back in and parries with a few short, but darting and telling left jabs… it is good ringsmanship, and that is my guess, as good as anyone elses, i suppose, we'll wait and see. won't we ?

Debbie

By: “Fair and generous” Bibi « Silver Lining

“Fair and generous” Bibi « Silver Lining — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:36:14 +0000

[...] by Khalid Amayreh, Palestinian think tank [...]

By: mary

mary — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:36:10 +0000

A link to the transcript here -

http://enduringamerica.com/2009/06/14/transcript-netanyahu-speech-on-israel-palestine-14-june/

As Ed says on medialens –

'Anyone kinda expecting some atrocity "committed" by the Palestinians soon, just to put the kibosh on the facile and deceitful "concessionary" crap from Obama and Bibbie? '