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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