Palestine: Obama’s quiet diplomacy!

-DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL 

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Although US President Barak Obama also paid a traditional  visit to Israel where, like all his processors did,  reiterated  the US shield for Zionist crimes,  Israel considers him as deadly  bone in  Zionist criminal flesh and  looks for the early end of his  reign so as to resume its full  scale  war  on Palestinians.

Latest US mediated peace talks are seen in Tel Aviv as a serious enough threat to Zionist expansionist existence in Mideast, constantly proliferating the illegal settlements inside Palestine with US support.  

All these years of  peace talks between Israel and Palestine have failed precisely because the even as the peace talks are in the process of making head way, the US presidents always  made  statements  supporting  Zionist criminal régime by shielding  their crimes against humanity  and  attacking the Palestine.  The double-speak from White House only emboldened the fascist sections among Israeli leadership to end the talks without any result.

For the first time in the history of  US mediated Israeli occupational  talks, the US President, fully aware of Zionist  fanatic tactics,  has decided to maintain  cool attitude  in the course of  another , probably  the first r ever  constructive peace talks, to advance toward a diplomatic agreement.

For an American president to suggest that its support for Israel will be anything less than unconditional is quite a striking break with tradition, and will certainly be of some concern to Israeli policymakers - who are already anxious about international isolation.

Over the last few months, the US president Barack Obama has remained largely silent on Israel-Palestine peace process, while authorizing  and allowing his secretary of state, John Kerry, to  take charge of the protracted task of getting both sides around the negotiating table and pushing for a credible breakthrough deal.

And the strategy has shown some positive results in the form of Israeli readiness for freezing  its illegal  settlements in occupied Palestine- a major  condition for  talks. .

Recently, Obama said that his silence was not to do with pessimism or a lack of concern, but out of respect for the intensive, active diplomatic effort being staged by Kerry who already has made 11 trips to the region since peace talks restarted in July- however avoiding Gaza Strip under tremendous pressure from Israel. White House has appeased the Israeli regime and its powerful lobby in Washington so possibly as to encourage Israel to  give  a chance for peace in Mideast. .

After  the hawkish  Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington, Obama called for the Israeli premier and the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to do everything they could to reach a deal now in order to end the conflict and initiate the creation of Palestine state. . .

Perhaps Obama's warning that in the absence of a peace deal, America would struggle to defend an increasingly isolated Israel on the international stage has begun to work in favor of his  desire to  finish his key foreign policy  agenda before he leaves office. While reiterating America's commitment to Israel's security - something that is "not subject to periodic policy differences" – Obama warned that the need for change was urgent: "It is not realistic nor is it my desire or expectation that the core commitments we have with Israel change during the remainder of my administration or the next administration. But what I do believe is that if you see no peace deal and continued aggressive settlement construction - and we have seen more aggressive settlement construction over the last couple years than we've seen in a very long time - if Palestinians come to believe that the possibility of a contiguous sovereign Palestinian state is no longer within reach, then our ability to manage the international fallout is going to be limited." He also warned that if Netanyahu "does not believe that a peace deal with the Palestinians is the right thing to do for Israel, then he needs to articulate an alternative approach."

Clearly, Obama wants to put the pressure on to ensure that a framework for peace is agreed in time for the April deadline set by Kerry. Obama found Netanyahu's intransigence frustrating.  The president's emphasis on Netanyahu's personal ability to push through the change makes this self-evident.

Even as they keep attacking the besieged people of Palestine, Israel also claim they are concerned and worried for “our national security”. It is this pretext that Israel has successfully used to justify all its crimes against humanity and got terror goods form the USA and Europe regularly. .

As Israeli leaders claim they can’t be pressured or pressurized to yield to US pressure tactics, Obama wants to "make the case that Netanyahu, alone among Israelis, has the strength and political credibility to lead his people away from the precipice."

The response from the Israeli government has, predictably, not been completely positive.  It could be a mere tactical to  prolong the  talks  for some more time, hoping  to get some opportunity to  somehow end the talks and resume the  terror attack on  Gaza and West bank. Israel always looks for  some excuse to  disturb the talks.

However, fortunately fro humanity, Obama, unlike his predecessors, was measured, merely pointing out that there will come a point where even the powers of the US are limited to support or promote Zionism , but the change in his tone is significant.

Whether this rhetoric of Obama actually has an impact on the process of peace negotiations, however, remains to be seen.

Hopefully, at least Obama succeeds.