by Barry Rubin
Let’s consider what has just happened. A farce.
What
is shocking is the lack of outrage by mainstream journalists and
foreign policy opinion-makers. This has required the slanderous
consignment of normal and proper and competent foreign policy
practices–as would have been demanded and done at any time in U.S.
history–to silly partisanship that isn’t even worth discussing.
The
United States of America officially announced the resumption of
negotiations when they are nowhere near arranged. The mass media
breathlessly followed each claim and got it WRONG.
No
one seems to have noticed. No one pointed out why there will NOT be
serious talks. No one pointed out that the Palestinians have refused to
negotiate for 13 years.
No one pointed out the PA cannot negotiate peace because it cannot commit the Gaza Strip to anything
Nobody
pointed out in the establishment that the United States is supposed to
be on Israel’s side or why the settlements are NOT the problem for
peace.
Has
this happened before? Yes, in late 2010 when President Obama announced
at the UN that the talks would soon restart at Camp David. Prime
Minister Netanyahu agreed; the Palestinians refused. Is there a pattern
here?
Does anyone notice that the Palestinians keep demanding more preconditions, Israeli concessions but never come to the tab;e?
Why,
if Palestinians are so eager and desperate to get a state do they not
try to get one? Has anyone considered the non-logic of that claim?
Why
should Israel have to again make a concession of freeing Palestinian
terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians to get peace talks? Especially
when the Palestinian Authority–and even those previously released–have
returned to murder!
Why
dd the U.S. promise to Israel that it would support the 1947 ceasefire
lines PLUS settlement blocks as its new borders, even get mentioned in
the coverage? The U.S. made a conflicting promise of the precise 1947
ceasefire lines to the Palestinians. This was a huge breaking of a
promise to Israel on which Israeli concessions that were made at the
risk of lives had been based!
Why, then, should any future U.S guarantee to Israel be believed?
These
are only some of the questions that should be raised. This public
debate is being conducted on a false, sloppy, inaccurate basis in which
the main news media and the U.S. government can’t even get their faces
straight and remember what happened a few years ago.
Barry Rubin
Source: http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/07/foreign-policy-farce-u-s-conduct-of-israelpalestinian-peace-process/
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