Obama’s Disgrace at Israeli Hands Leaves Palestinians No Choice (Le Quotidien d’Oran, Algeria)
Jun 4th, 2011 | 7 responses
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s rebuke of Presisdent Obama before a joint session of the U.S. Congress has not only weakened Obama’s hand at home, but has badly damaged his influence among Arabs. For Algeria’s Le Quotidien d’Oran, Kharroubi Habib writes that this leaves Palestinians one choice: to press the U.N. when the General Assembly opens in September to recognize a Palestinian state based on Israel’s 1967 borders.
For Le Quotidien d’Oran, columnist Kharroubi Habib writes in part:
Not content with flatly and arrogantly opposing the idea of creating a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders suggested with great caution by U.S. President Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu fired on all cylinders in Washington to compel him to retract his statement. Both AIPAC, the powerful Jewish-American lobby, and the at-least-as-powerful U.S. Congress, rose up against him. Pro-Israelis have inflicted a stinging rebuke to the U.S. president.
All that remains for the Palestinians is to internationalize their national cause by referring it to the U.N. Security Council and if necessary, the General Assembly, on the subject of U.N. recognition of their state based unambiguously on the 1967 borders. It’s an approach that has the merit of elevating the Palestinian-Israeli conflict outside the exclusive arena of the American administration.
Abbas’ Palestinian Authority and a segment of international opinion were naive enough to believe that Obama would manage to move the lines of the Palestinian-Israeli issue in the direction of a just and equitable solution. And some of his statements and proposals created a momentary illusion. This has been quickly dissipated by his successive capitulations to the arrogant warnings and injunctions by leaders of the Zionist state, supported and relayed by unconditional Israel’s allies in America, which Obama cannot challenge because he’s positioning himself to do battle in 2012.
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7 Responses to “Obama’s Disgrace at Israeli Hands Leaves Palestinians No Choice (Le Quotidien d’Oran, Algeria)”
Can someone answer something for me. Have the Palestinians ever acknowledged Israel’s right to exist, apologized for twice trying to invade and destroy Israel, and ever said they won’t do it again if they get their old borders back?
@slamfu
When did the Palestinians invade Israel?
A few border intrusions don’t amount to an invasion. Now the Israelis invasion into Gaza was a real invasion.
Israel’s enemies have wanted it destroyed and they still do.
The 1967 “lines” have never, never been “official” or “sacrosanct.”
I wonder in every case of 1967-lines-demanders if they’re like the fine folks in the Middle East. Attack Israel and they say: “Now drive them into the sea.”
Meanwhile, Israel evacuated Gaza and what happened? The place was trashed, terrorists took over, and rockets have been fired into Israel. That doesn’t exactly make any West Bank land given to them promise to be Nirvana.
Slamfu: No. And were they do or say what you asked, it would merely be a hudna. Once the strength was restored and boosted, the attacks would continue. Have the silly Israel-bashers ever seen the many maps the Arabs have with “Palestine” extending to the Mediterranean?
[sigh]
DLS said:
The 1967 “lines” have never, never been “official” or “sacrosanct.”
LOL From an official Israelis government site.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/Israel+in+Maps/1949-1967+Armistice+Lines.htm
Those lines were the official border from 1947 till 1967.
The Palestinians did concede the 78% of pre-1948 Palestine territory to Israel. They recognized Israel’s right to exist as a nation. The Israelis have now insisted that the Palestinians recognize that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish nation. This has implications to the Palestinians that they refuse to accept for reasons, beyond the obvious moving the goalpost ones, that I don’t remember right now and I probably never understood. Religion poisons all.
Rudi — [slapping head] After 1967, they ceased to be official.