Obama to Reinvigorate Mideast peace Talk

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Undeterred by the crude fact that his efforts to restart the peace process have so far been blocked by disagreements over Israeli settlements and the usual Israeli dirty tricks, President Barack Obama will try to relaunch peace talks and will hold separate talks on 22 Sept with Israeli hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian (Fatah) President Mahmoud Abbas, before a joint meeting. The meetings are seen as "clear sign of the President's personal commitment to this issue." it was critical to put the discussions "in context". Many skeptics doubt the outcome of these endless talks with bottomless suspicions but the three leaders are going to sit down in the same room and continue to narrow the gaps.

Assigned by Obama, US envoy George Mitchell's latest round of shuttle diplomacy ended without agreement due mainly to obstructionist tactics of the Zionist regime.  Mitchell said Obama's desire to personally engage at this juncture showed his "deep commitment to comprehensive peace". The US envoy held a series of meetings with Netanyahu last week in a fresh attempt at getting a deal on Jewish settlement activity. As a formal rituality he also went to the West Bank to talk to Abbas. Mitchell was hoping for a consensus before all sides attend the UN General Assembly, but he returned to the US without reaching any agreement.

An adamant and arrogant Israeli rogue state is still seen defiant. Both terror Israeli and Palestine sides were reported as blaming each other for the lack of any agreement to resume the peace process following Mitchell's visit. An Israeli foreign ministry spokesman bluffed that the Palestinian Authority was "preventing the resumption of the peace process by making conditions that it has not made in the past”. It was not reported which conditions he was referring to. But Abbas said Israel was to blame for not agreeing to a total freeze in settlement building. "The road is now blocked," he told journalists in Cairo. “There is no more work for Mitchell with the Western or Palestinian sides because we are complying with all our duties. The focus has to be on the Israeli side." But the fascist Israeli leaders are trying their tricks to evade punishment for their crimes against innocent Palestinians, including children, women and old people, and destructions in Palestine.

The new US administration, Hamas and Abbas and have been demanding a complete freeze on Israeli construction activity. Netanyahu had previously offered a temporary freeze for several months, but not in East Jerusalem or in cases where homes have already been approved. He noted this week that there had been a slowdown in settlement construction, but that work would continue on 2,400 units currently being built.

Colonialists know how to plan strategies to shield their crimes. The proposed meetings by President Obama with Israeli and Palestinian leaders will take place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Israel is joyous that president Obama has invited him to the talks. Israel’s Hawkish Netenyahu's office issued a statement welcoming the invitation to talks but insists saying they would be held "without preconditions". He perhaps hopes to escape any commitment for Zionist regime on Palestine, but it seems Israel’s free terror days are ending faster than expected a couple of months ago.

One does not know how President Obama could justify the absence of Hamas, the ruling faction of Palestine. If he thinks only a united PLO is the need of the hour and factions are no good for Palestine now, hats off to him! Meanwhile, the Palestinians should remove their respective party affiliations that have harmed their genuine freedom interests so long and get together as a cohesive PLO.

All presidents before Obama have systematically failed in delivering much delayed justice to Palestinians mainly because they in practice stood by the Israeli fascists. Slowly, the Israeli strategists, liars, mischief mongers, terrorists and lobbyists are losing out to the truth chosen by the new US president and if the trend continues, Palestine state would become realty sooner than later. For sure! Israel cannot stop it and justice shall be the Palestinians’.  Because - the US president is seen standing for certain principles, while fighting against Neocon evil forces all around!    

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Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Specialist on State Terrorism

Independent Researcher in International Affairs, the only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation in South Asia.