We seem to always tragically misapply the lessons of the past. From Munich, to Vietnam, to Iraq to the Palestinians, to Iran. Nothing could be more naive than the notion that a fixed record of the past exists. History is infinitely plastic, a panorama of dimly seen events onto which each age projects its own anxieties and concerns: hence we have the repeated phenomenon of “revisionist” historians incessantly reinterpreting the actions and motives of the key players.
This re-morphing and re-invention is an industry in itself, one whose roots may be American as de Toqueville remarked on the American phenomenon of contemporary reincarnation and recycling. And Obama understands this very well ennobling his campaign with contradictory forces as the man of peace and the war monger, the man of change and the reinforcer of the status-quo, the colonizer and the liberator; and the Middle East encapsulates this entire delusional combat…
—On September 12, 2012 – Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported that Benjamin Netanyahu had announced to transfer NIS250 million ($65 million) to Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah out of the tax revenue the Zionist regime collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Netanyahu said it was Israel and PA’s “joint interest”, meaning the Zionist entity doesn’t want to see a collapsing PA which will leave Hamas as the sole ruler of both Gaza and the West Bank.
Showing his gratitute, Mahmoud Abbas, like the previous years – called Israeli president Shimon Peres to offer him Rosh Hashanah greetings. “Happy holiday and a Happy New Year to you and the entire Israeli nation,” said Abbas. Incidently, American Jewish writer, Stephen Lendman called Peres a War Criminal in 2009.
In September 21, 2011, Israeli finance minister Yuval Steinitz was quoted by Daniel Bases of Reuters: “Taxes that Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority total about 500 million Israeli shekels ($135 million) a month“.
Netanyahu’s release of a portion PA assets could be sweetener to Washington’s pressure on Abbas to “delay its fresh bid to seek upgraded UN status until after the November 2012 elections“, reported by AFP on August 8, 2012. Abbas had said earlier that he would ask the UN General Assembly on September 27 to upgrade PA’s status from that of an observer entity to a non-member state.—Read More:http://rehmat1.com/2012/09/17/bibi-offers-65-million-sweetener-to-abbas/
(see link at end)…Benny Katz:Salaam Fayad, the PA’s unelected prime minister, worked as an economist for both the World Bank and International Monetary Fund before being tapped by George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice to serve as PA premier. Fayad is not only an agent of American imperialism but also represents the interests of those forces responsible for the concentration of global media, hyper-commercialism, compulsive consumerism and international wars.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas, locally known as Abu Mazan, has had absolutely no legitimacy to hold office since his term expired in early 2009. Even the few instances in which domestic opposition to his authoritarian rule has forced him to announce intentions to resign from his post, Washington has persuaded him to reconsider and continue as their unelected puppet despot in Ramallah.
Despite the low popularity they enjoy among their people, Fayad and Abbas have their leadership bolstered by a Fatah militia armed to the teeth by the United States and trained by US Lt.-Gen. Keith Dayton. This militia has brutalized, extorted, arrested, tortured and even murdered opponents of the Fayad-Abbas regime, prompting the Western-backed PA to earn the local moniker of “Dayton’s Republic.” Read More:http://zionistfreedom.org/resources/opinions/the-justice-of-israel
—Roger Tucker, Jew Editor/Publisher of “One Democratic State” website – in a recent article, titled “Open Letter to Uri Avnery, Noam Chomsky and Jimmy Carter”, claimed that none of them is friend to Palestinian victims of the foreign Zionist Jew settlers because in fact they themselves are ‘Crypto-Zionists’ hiding behind the facade of ‘humanism’.
According to Roger Tucker the the so-called “Two state solution” supporters are a bunch of odd bedfellows. It has Uri Avnery’s Gush shalom along with hardcore Israeli Zionist government officials, the ‘Israel-First’ American neocons, Republicans, the Christian Zionists, the puppet Fatah (Mahmoud Abbas) unelected government and somewhat reluctant European nations.—Read More:http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/07/rejoinder-to-criticism-of-chomsky-asset-or-liability/ image:http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/east-side-story/palestinians-softening-un-bid-to-avoid-pre-election-confrontation-with-obama.premium-1.461436
But even if the PA really is an abusive, corrupt and unelected autocratic regime serving the interests of Western imperialism in the Middle East, none of this should take away from the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination on land currently occupied by Israel. In other words, the quality of the PA and the justness of its policies should have absolutely no bearing on the rights of Palestinians to an independent state.
This brings us to the question of justice, which in any situation needs to be grounded on historical facts. While nearly the entire world has accepted the notion that Palestinians deserve a state in at least part of the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River, the truth remains that prior to 1948, the last indigenous population to enjoy self-governance in Palestine were Jews….
—[T]he United States has long ceased to be a puppet-master among the Arab states, if it ever was. The U.S., however, still has enormous influence over the most democratic country in the region. Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands is hardly the only issue of moral, political, and strategic importance in the region—the dispute was barely a slogan on the streets of Tunis or Cairo—but there is no doubt that its swift and fair resolution, after forty-four years, is necessary not only to satisfy the demands of justice but to insure a future for Israel as a democracy. The Netanyahu government’s refusal to come to terms with the Palestinians, and its insistence on settlement building, have steadily undermined both the security and the essence of the state, which was founded as a refuge from dispossession.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/foreign-stuff#ixzz26yNyEdq
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…The bottom line is that as the last native population to enjoy self-governance in Palestine, the Jewish people has a legitimate legal, moral and historic right to renew that self-governance and defend it against anyone seeking to challenge or threaten it.
All this isn’t to say that I blindly support Israeli government policies or believe non-Jews should be relegated to second class status. I don’t. Nor do I necessarily believe I have an ideal solution for peace in the Middle East. But not having a solution doesn’t prevent me from battling injustice. And just as I naturally oppose checkpoints, walls and restrictions on movement, I equally oppose attempts by the international community to rob the Jewish people of its inalienable right to self-determination in the country Jews have struggled to return to since the moment they were exiled.
Contrary to some of the accusations lobbed against me, I don’t see any ideological difference between myself and my comrades on the Left who attack the State of Israel and question its legitimacy. The only real divide is our perceptions of history and Jewish national identity. My reading of history identifies the Jewish people as not only a distinct nation but also an indigenous Middle Eastern nation that has time and again fallen victim to Western imperialism in its homeland. And from this position it is only natural to view Zionism as the Jewish people’s national liberation movement and a rectification of a great historic injustice….Read More:http://zionistfreedom.org/resources/opinions/the-justice-of-israel
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