The New Old Policy Of America Towards Palestine
By Salim Nazzal
09 June, 2011
Countercurrents.org
The belief that Obama might be much better than other united states presidents proved to be an illusion Arabs need to review. The later speeches of Obama indicate clearly that the USA is going to stand against Palestine efforts to be a full membership in the United Nation next September.
The USA did not only take this hostile position alone but Obama went abroad to convince other countries to adapt the Israeli position to block the Palestinian efforts.
Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he and German Chancellor Angela MerkelGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on the need to avoid any Palestinian efforts to seek United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state.
Also in London during a conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Obama said that asking the United Nations to unilaterally recognize a state of Palestine as a way to avoid negotiating with Israel will not work.
Palestinians and Arabs complain all the time that the USA sacrifice its own interest to protect the Israeli occupation is not a complain without reason. The Israeli occupation has always counted that the USA will back them in whatever atrocities they commit and this indeed has made Israel free to commit atrocities without fearing the international society.
And the USA does not want to understand that its bad image in the Middle East is not going to change as long as they are not changing their biased position towards Israel.
Netanyahu made it clear that there is no to return the 1967 borders , which in fact No to Peace, and the USA backs this policy which leads to prolong occupation and lead to more bloodshed in the region. This week Israel murdered more than 22 peaceful Palestinian demostraters on the border of the occupied Golan Heights and injured hundreds and this has gone without any real condemnation from the western democratic countries because Israel has apparently become a state over law.
It is very obvious that the USA is against Palestinians whatever they do!
Past history will support this argument.
When Palestinians thought that the international society will return them their rights nothing happened and the Palestine cause was almost forgetten.But when Palestinian took arms and used armed struggle America and Europe called them terrorists, and when Palestinians used peaceful civil struggle Israel murdered them and these countries did nothing to stop Israel. And when Palestinians went to negotiations the negotiations lasted 20 years and Israel used it to fill Palestine with more settlements to impose facts on the ground. And now when Palestinians go to the UN America and some European countries stand against this?
The new old American position demonstrates beyond doubt its hostility to freedom and human rights which America claims to be part of its constitution , and international policy ,but when it comes to the right of Palestinians America declares war on the Palestinians right to live as a free nation.
The question is what America and Europe expect Palestinians to do when they stand against their rights to live as a free nation? I t is not easy to answer this question but it undoubtedly will convince Palestinians that America and Europe are not only against the Palestinian approach or method used to achieve their freedom but rather against the freedom of Palestinians in principle.
Dr Salim Nazzal is a Palestinian-Norwegian historian in the Middle East, who has written extensively on social and political issues in the region
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