Is President Obama serious about helping to create a Palestinian state? According to this editorial from Samidoon, a newspaper in the Palestinian Territories, Barack Obama is completely biased toward Israel when he speaks of a Jewish homeland on occupied Palestinian land.
Reflecting frustration with the president and showing how wide the chasm remains between Israelis and Palestinians, the editorial from Samidoon says in part:
What the U.S. president said about suffering and the coexistence of children of both parties living side by side in peace and stability are beautiful words, but the expression of greatest import in his speech, and which suggests a vision that will lead to more dangerous violence and war, was the one relating to the Jewish identity of Israel. He said clearly and unequivocally that “Israel is a sovereign state, and the historic homeland of the Jewish people,” and called on those who signed the Arab peace initiative, “seize this opportunity to make it real by taking tangible steps toward the normalization that it promises Israel.”
Occupied Palestine was not and will never be the historic land of the Jewish people, and President Obama knows this well. He studied law at the greatest American universities and is well acquainted with history. He knows the enormity of the injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people due to the rape by these same Jewish people whose land and country he speaks of with such deep respect.
There would be no honor in seeing a disfigured Palestinian state at the United Nations that embodies the deprivation of inalienable Palestinian rights that have already been confirmed by the U.N. itself, including the right of return for Palestinian refugees, which is the basis of the Palestinian issue. Nor would there be anything but shame in exchanging Jerusalem, the symbol of honor and dignity for over a billion and a half Muslims, for a handful of Negev desert dust.
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