Lina Suleiman - A “Legitimate Peace” Now or Probably Never!

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By Guest Post • Jun 16th, 2009 at 22:15 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

The International community has always blamed Palestinians for wasting historical moments for peace-making and building their own state when they have undoubtedly known that the main hindrance to peace has always been the Zionist dream to take over not only all the land of historical Palestine but also their material and immaterial culture. It is this hypocritical community of moral-masked faces that exported the Zionists and has supported them for a century by all possible means that cause the enduring suffering of the Palestinians: genocide, dispossession, occupation, oppression, mass-killing of innocents and social and political leaders, impoverishment, and all sorts of devastation of their infrastructure to lock the mental and physical prisons and untimely drive the Palestinians to a certain destiny. The militant teachings of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the father of Jewish self-defense and creator of the Iron Wall doctrine, have formed the basis for much of the Israeli cruel policies toward the Palestinian population. These policies call for the use of force, restrictions and imposed suffering, to drive the Palestinians to desperation and eventual resignation to their imposed fate.

If the ridiculous alleged reason that Jews lived on the historical Palestinian land 2000 years ago gave them the right to not only exist on this land but also to uproot Palestinians and wipe them out and obliterate their civil traces and artifacts, then let us go thousands of years back in time and re-draw the world map according to the historical facts 2000 years before and displace folks of the world today accordingly.

If the Western countries feel culpable and stuck in a moral hook because of what they did to the Jews in the Holocaust during World War II through the extermination by Nazi Germany, they should feel trapped in the same moral predicament because of their key responsibility in the establishment of the ‘cancerous’ Israeli state that lives and grows at the expense of the lands belonging to Palestinians, their lives and the very basic need of a human being, the aspiration of being free, not controlled, safe and dignified. The Holocaust lasted for a few years but the genocide of Palestinians by the Israelis is committed every day and every moment. Genocide is not about only killing the body but also the soul, the dreams, the hopes of Palestinians. And this has been going on for tens of years and seems like it will for the future to come.

It is this international community that has become a partner with Israel to cause and back non-stop brutality policies of the Zionist enterprise, under which the Palestinians have suffered for more than 60 years, which this joint-venture politically endorses, defends, rationalizes and legitimatizes.

If the world leaders stay apathetic to pressure Israel and put in place a legitimate two-state solution in accordance to the international law and the UN resolutions, then Israel and the world powers are to be blamed for losing a likely historical moment to construct peace. If this is not going to happen now, no one will have faith that this may ever happen. According to international law, Israel is not a legitimate or United Nations state-member until the “manufactured” state accepts and implements the General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan for the historical Palestine. It has only a status of being an “observer”.

If the international community continues to maintain this disgraceful bias and the supportive stand of the sick Zionist mindset and militarized project that is based on fallacious Jewish ethics of self-righteousness and self-adoration and perceives the existence of the Jews on isolation, segregation and distinction, then they should be prepared to have a moral responsibility for the hostile and the violent future events. The western countries, led by the US and Britain have to decide and bear responsibility of all sorts. Peace now or probably never. The American Indians story is not likely to unfold again with Palestinians.

What Netanyahu preached in his paradoxical speech promises not even the minimal of Palestinians rights and emancipatory daydreams that they have been long awaiting. It is a speech to declare more plainly and concretely than ever before, by sayings or implications, that there is no space for Palestinians on their own land. Palestinians have known what Israel has been after since a very long time ago! Haven't they? It is an existential conflict. We, Palestinians know that!

Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983) is reported to have straightforwardly said: "We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel… Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours."

A Palestinian schoolboy has been able to know Netanyahu’s vision on a Palestinian state. It is only those corrupt, dictator, puppet Arab leaders and their beneficiary squad who bet on America and Israel’s “benefit of the doubt”. The rulers are very much willing to trade off their own people’s lives and future and national interests to retain their tyrant ruling orders in return of support and back up of their ruling systems by the world leaders who claim that they are advocates of democracy and human rights.

What should we expect from Barack Hussein Obama if the American interests are not under threat or challenged by a joined-up interests and an amalgamated resistance strategy by both Palestinians and Arabs, peoples and governments? This is what we need more than ever before.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, spoke bluntly to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio. "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We the Jewish people control America and the Americans know it."

Why would Obama be different? Wake up!

And, to refresh the memory of all who have forgotten:

The final portion of UN RESOLUTION 1514, 1960 violated in continuation….

1. The subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights, is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and is an impediment to the promotion of world peace and co-operation.

2. All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

3. Inadequacy of political, economic, social or educational preparedness should never serve as a pretext for delaying independence.

4. All armed action or repressive measures of all kinds directed against dependent peoples shall cease in order to enable them to exercise peacefully and freely their right to complete independence, and the integrity of their national territory shall be respected.

5. Immediate steps shall be taken, in Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or colour, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom.

6. Any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and the territorial integrity of a country is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

7. All States shall observe faithfully and strictly the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the present Declaration on the basis of equality, non-interference in the internal affairs of all States, and respect for the sovereign rights of all peoples and their territorial integrity.

Bibi and Barack, are you paying attention?