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Abbas admits failure of the peace process

By Khalid Amayreh • Nov 6th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Palestine, Zionism

It is hard to think how Abbas can redeem and rectify some of his blunders. Some of his sins, such as the security coordination with Israel, can never be forgiven.

But Abbas can still embark on some daring steps to salvage things before it is too late.

At the top of these steps should be the orderly dismantling of the Palestinian Authority under whose rubric the national Palestinian cause is being liquidated.

Failure to do so, under whatever pretexts and excuses, would only mean legitimizing the colonial Israeli scheme and capitulating to the status quo.

Let us get rid of the big lie and confront ourselves with the all too-clear fact that the colonialist Zionist occupation of our country never really receded and that the Oslo Agreement was a deception from A to Z. We must tell our people that the PA is not a phase toward liberation from Zionist tyranny, as we have been told, but is rather an instrument for the liquidation of the Palestinian cause.



Peace is not simply the absence of violence: a lesson for Israel

By Guest Post • May 26th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY BAN SIDHE
I’m starting things off today with a post that can, and will, apply to Israel and Palestine one day in the future. What is the price for Peace, and when does the hatred die? Using the Irish Peace Process as an example.
As I check this morning’s news, the first thing I saw [...]



Take 10 and give back 1 if the Palestinians behave, then repeat!

By Guest Post • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Opinions and Letters, Palestine

Letter to Palestinian Think Tank
May 29, 2008.
The following follow-up comment, posted by Project Humanbeingsfirst here, to its article "Celebrating Israel's 60th Birthday in the 60th year of the Nakba" may be of some interest to your think-tankers. Perhaps you can reprint it with the above title.
"I happen to be a Zionist. I'm a Zionist by [...]