Obama weighs options on Israel

Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Highly mischeavous Israeli premier Netanyahu never said he would freeze settlement building. The opposite is true: he insisted on expanding the illegal settlements come what may. The temporary halting as he suggests only to fool the world  t enlist maximum support for the fascist attacks on Palestine. Some 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and in Arab East Jerusalem, captured in a 1967 war, alongside three million Palestinians. Netanyahu himself, facing strong opposition from within his own fascist coalition to any concessions on settlements, has avoided making such a public commitment to halting construction. The World Court calls the settlements illegal and Palestinians say the enclaves could deny them a viable state. He asserts he is not among those who see halting building or ceding national territory or harming the settlements in Judea and Samaria as an asset, something that can help Israel. He sees Palestinians his enemy who should recognize terrorist Israel and the settlements in Judea and Samaria as a Zionist enterprise and the settlers in Judea and Samaria as his -- our -- brothers." Netanyahu last week offered Obama's envoy George Mitchell a 9-month freeze in building in the West Bank but that Washington was seeking a one-year freeze in order to persuade Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace negotiations that were suspended in December.

Sept 22 Tuesday's encounter will be a shaky Netanyahu's first meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas since he became prime minister in March. The Zionist regime has called the meeting only a courtesy call,  "a joke at the expense of the American president, who has chosen to get involved in Middle East politics and has suffered for it". Israeli officials as usual have played down the chance of it leading to a rapid re-launch of peace negotiations. Palestinian officials have said the meeting may be little more than a photo opportunity for Obama, who has little so far to show for a pledge to work for peace in the Middle East's six-decade-old conflict. Abbas said the meeting would not signal a full re-launch of peace talks, which remain blocked by profound disagreement over settlements and the scope of talks. U.S. officials called the meeting a mark of Obama's personal commitment to Middle East peace but played down the prospect of quick developments: "These three leaders are going to sit down in the same room and continue to narrow the gaps". The Obama administration is trying to put together all available control tracks to make Israel see reason and stop playing with all concerned above all the USA. At present President Obama weighs only the options of diplomacy with Israel before he could consider alternative strategies on the matter. Israel’s Iran  chip has lost  much of its temper as Iran declared its resolve not to go after nukes when USA has decided to abandon the shield in East Europe ostensibly to detect Iranian missiles, but still hopes some more opportunities would come up for it to utilize to pursue its anti-Palestine goals.  

Israel’s characteristic stubbornness and insistence on continuing to expand the illegal territories in Palestine and kill the remaining Palestinians has failed even a seasoned diplomat like Mitchell. Netanyahu, who highlights the fact that Abbas's authority is limited since Islamist Hamas seized Gaza in 2007, has suggested talks focus on interim improvements in security and prosperity. Israel signed up to a U.S.-backed peace plan in 2003, the "road map", but successfully thwarted any positive development. It called for a halt to building in the Jewish settlements that Palestinians say are eating away at the viability of a future state in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. While Netanyahu has been under the heaviest U.S. pressure on Israel in years, he has insisted settlers should be allowed to continue building as their families grow and rules out any discussion on sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinians. As well as an open-ended halt to settlement that includes not just the West Bank but East Jerusalem, Palestinians want Israel to commit from the start of negotiations to reaching permanent resolutions of all the core issues of the conflict -- including borders, Palestinian refugees and Jerusalem's status. Hawkish Israeli leadership and politicians still hope to bend Obama to dance to the Zionist tunes as his predecessors have done so far and Bushes did it more neatly. It is indeed the major challenge President Obama is facing now and if he succeeds in bring the Zionist leaders to justice and coerce them to surrender sovereignty and lands back to the Palestinians, that would the major victory for Obama as well as America’s.  Fascist Israel cannot go on killing defenseless Palestinians and occupy their lands by citing insensible, devestating “natural growth”.  

Immediately after Russia's president Medvedev said during a meeting on the Black Sea in August, his Israeli counterpart Peres, a hawkish former prime minister, assured him that Israel, a peaceful country, would not attack Iran, Tel Aviv repudiated the Moscow’s claim as mere imagination. Russia plays a role in the stand-off between Israel and Iran. Israel said it has not given up the option of a military response to Tehran's nuclear programme and “all options are on the table", to remove any obstacle that comes in the way of Zionist genocides and expansion activities. Israel has long dismissed Iranian assurances that its nuclear programme is not intended to produce weapons and has said it would not tolerate such a level of armament in the Islamic Republic, which is avowedly hostile to the Jewish state. A bold Tel Aviv slammed the Kremlin saying the Russian president is authorised to speak for Israel and certainly we have not taken any option off the table. Israel would attack Iran's nuclear facilities if the international powers had not agreed by the end of this year on crippling sanctions to force Tehran's hand.

Israel is confident that the western powers, essentially anti-Islamic like the Zionist regime is, would stand by Jews to kill Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who made an unannounced visit to Moscow this month, has been keen that Russia not sell anti-aircraft missiles to Tehran and also that Moscow support international sanctions against Iran. None of the powers has so far demanded sanctions against fascist Israel for recurring holocausts in Palestine; nor is the UNSC or USA or Russia or China considering severest sanctions to cripple Israeli economic and military might to make the Zionist state a pro-human state.

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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.