Why do the Americans and others want to veto a proposed Palestinian State? A State, it should be emphasised, which would arise from their own land anyway? It isn't as if the Palestinians want to implant it on somebody else's country, and then proceed to take that country over.
As things stand the Israelis, courtesy of a continuous build up of settlements, are grabbing Palestinian land all the time. And they take only the best land too, the fertile areas which have water sources for irrigation. This blatantly illegal process has gone on for so long now one has to wonder if it's worth the Palestinians actually claiming statehood. There can't be that much of their country left in their own hands.
So why the voices of protest from Clinton and co? They are making a concerted effort to block the forthcoming UN vote, saying that the only way forward for the region is through negotiation. That is, negotiation between Israel and the Palestinians.
Well, after years of fake 'peace talks', where Israel simply stalled and delayed as it continued expanding, what kind of negotiation might Clinton and co. really have in mind? I'd like to hear more from the Turkish leader Erdogan on this matter.I trust him more than I trust them.
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jenray
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 2011-09-16 @ 12:41:30
Apparently, they will be granted a status similar to that of the Vatican...most unsatisfactory I would have thought but better than what they have now which is virtually nothing, and, as you say, what land they do have is continually being stolen by Israel...the Palestinians want to go back to the 1967 border agreement which, I believe, is why the Israelis and the Americans want to veto it because the Americans know that no way is Israel going to move its settlers off this stolen land, so negotiations would stall permanently...however, there are a lot of Israelis within Israel who think that this is the right thing to do if they are to ever start living in peace with their neighbours...how long Netanyahu and his cabinet can go on ignoring the demonstrators and protesters remains to be seen...I'm just hoping that these wise people will increase in number until sanity and justice prevails...
I suppose in the end, there may be a solution to the settlements and that is if Israel assures the Palestinians no more land will be laid claim to, then very substantial rents for the land now occupied could be paid by Israel to the Palestinians, in that way, giving them resources to rebuild their broken land and people. Israel is certainly rich enough to afford such payments with what it receives in subsidies from the US and from its benefactors abroad.... -
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- 2011-09-17 @ 08:56:38
Years ago my father made me read a book about David Ben-Gurion's struggle - which answered several questions for me at the time - I think you will find that America's objection is all down to things that happened in the past
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oldjimbob
- 2011-09-17 @ 11:53:22
I can't really imagine what questions a book about Ben- Gurion's 'struggle' would answer. He was a staunch Zionist who advocated colonisation of Palestine. Chomsky, a jewish American intellectual, has labelled Israel as 'America's attack dog in the Middle East'. I think this is why Clinton and co, and others before them, will not let anything get in the way of Israeli development and ascendency.
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