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- With pundits in most capitals predicting failure for the US-brokered Palestinian-Israeli "Shalom" talks, Thanks to Brother Gilad Atzmon for clarifying the difference between Shalom and Peace - Shalom = Jewish Security.)
- The failure of PR Campain lauched by Ramallah Traitors "Shalom to you in Israel, I know we have disappointed you, I know we have been unable to deliver peace for the last 19 years, Shalom, I am your Partner"
- With Netanyahu demanding Palestinian recognition of “Israel” as the homeland of the Jewish people, that the future Palestinian state be demilitarized, and Nabil Sáath in Ramallah claiming "The Palestinian Authority will never recognize Israel as the Jewish state because such a declaration will negate the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their home,"
- Meanwhile, Terry Jones is preparing to burn a set of Qurans on the advent of September 11 in an action which is deemed to be a remonstration against what is introduced as “Islamic extremism”
- Economist " ruling out the possibility of forging a Shalom agreement between the PA in Ramallah and Israel without the consent of Hamas
- And Hamas picking its resistance out of its three hats, (a ruling elected party, a popular semi-underground movement and a military organization), accusing Fatah of Treason, vowing more strikes against the Zionist Enemy as Israel resuming its air strikes on Gaza.
- Ánd khalid Mishaal, who has predicted the failure of this shalom process from the start, confirming that Resistance is a realistic option for Hamas. It has succeeded in removing the occupier from southern Lebanon and Gaza and is clearly effective in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Despite Clinton's optimistic remarks on Wednesday, progress in the area of American-guided Israeli-Palestinian Shalom talks seemed to be in question," and needs the help of the Saudi King, "the most important Muslim leader in the world" who missed the Shalom circus, in order not to spoil his relation with Syria's Assad.
So Thomas L. Fredman jumped pleading Support from Saudi king to give Shalom Peace a chance, “It is time to bring it out of the air. King Abdullah should invite Mr. Netanyahu to Riyadh and present it to him personally.....Abdullah need not go to Jerusalem, as Anwar Sadat did, or recognize Israel. He can, though, still have a huge impact on the process by simply handing his plan to the leader for whose country it was intended.....The Saudis can’t just keep faxing their peace initiative to Israelis. That has no emotional punch. It actually says to Israelis: if the Saudis are afraid to hand us their plan, why should we believe they’ll have the courage to implement it if we do everything they suggest? Israelis are isolated. Seeing their prime minister received by the most important Muslim leader in the world in Riyadh would have a real impact." like they did after seeing Arafat (Father Palestine) and Rabin sharing the Nobil Shalom Prize, they killed Rabin and Later Poisoned Arafat.
Clinton Says Latest Mideast Talks Could Be Last Chance for Peace
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the direct talks launched between the Israelis and Palestinians could be the last chance to secure a peace settlement in the long-running conflict. Peace can be achieved, she said, if the parties will overcome "initial obstacles" – a clear hint the settlement freeze set to end on September 26.
Clinton expressed confidence that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are committed to negotiating a peace agreement. "Both sides and both leaders recognize that there may not ever be another chance," Clinton said at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.
Clinton hosted Netanyahu and Abbas at the State Department last week for the first direct negotiations between the two sides in nearly two years. Clinton plans to attend a second round of talks on September 14 and 15 in Egypt.
Clinton cast aside those who doubt the prospects for success as "wrong" and said the process has gained momentum with backing from Arab states willing to accept a two-state solution. "There's a certain momentum," she said. "You know, we have some challenges in the early going that we have to get over, but I think that we have a real shot here."
As for Abbas, Clinton said that "he was probably the earliest and at times the only Palestinian leader who called for a two-state solution, going back probably 20, 30 years. And for him, this is the culmination of a life commitment.
"And I think that the Arab League initiative, the peace initiative, put the Arab – most Arab and Muslim countries on record as saying that they could live with and welcome a two-state solution – 57 countries, including some we know didn't mean it, but most have followed through in commitments to it has changed the atmosphere," she continued.
Despite Clinton's optimistic remarks on Wednesday, progress in the area of American-guided Israeli-Palestinian peace talks seemed to be in question.
Earlier in the day, a member of the Palestinian Authority negotiating team participating in the peace talks announced that the PA does not intend to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
"The Palestinian Authority will never recognize Israel as the Jewish state because such a declaration will negate the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their home," said Nabil Sha'ath in Ramallah on Wednesday.
He also reiterated the PA position that if Israel permitted the continuation of building in its West Bank settlements after the expiration of the government’s building freeze the PA would walk out of the peace talks. "If Israel goes back to settlements, we will not stay in the negotiations," Sha'ath said.
Concerning America’s foreign policy, Clinton asserted at the meeting that the Obama administration's approach to foreign policy was beginning to pay important dividends."We are advancing America's interests and making progress on some of our most pressing challenges." "Today we can say with confidence that this model of American leadership works, and that it offers our best hope in a dangerous world."
"The world is counting on us. When old adversaries need an honest broker or fundamental freedoms need a champion, people turn to us," she said. "When the earth shakes or rivers overflow their banks, when pandemics rage or simmering tensions burst into violence, the world looks to us."
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Flashback: Peace is not 'shalom' and 'Shalom' is not Sharon
Gilad Atzmon
November 23, 2005
For the past few days we have been reading some flattering reports concerning the latest political moves of Sharon undertaken in his newly born peace loving persona. Sharon, a notorious war criminal, a man who has managed to prove time after time that he is totally lacking in any sense of moral guard or ethical consideration, has now managed to convince the Western media that he is the Israeli ‘voice of responsibility’.
Make no mistake, Sharon and the Israeli people are indeed devoted ‘peace’ lovers, yet, it is rather critically important to mention that the Israeli notion of peace is pretty remote from any notion of peace familiar to the rest of humanity. When we think of the Hebrew word for peace we traditionally refer to the word ‘Shalom’. But apparently, shalom and peace aren’t exactly the same. In fact they are very different. While shalom refers to the freedom from conflict while achieving a general sense of security, peace has a far broader meaning. Peace is a true resolution. Peace is the search for harmony between people. Peace is all about reconciliation.
It is very sad to admit that the broad realisation of the notion of peace in terms of harmony and reconciliation is totally lacking within the Israeli mindset. For the Israelis, shalom means applying a strategy that would guarantee personal and national refuge to the Jewish people. For the Israelis, shalom means living in peace, nothing more or less than that. How shalom is achieved or maintained isn’t a real concern for the Israelis. The fact that millions of Palestinians are subject to state terrorism in a form of major war crimes committed by the IDF isn’t a practical concern either. In short, rather than harmony and reconciliation, shalom is a set of political and military manoeuvres that silence the enemy of the Jewish people.
This very ‘shalom’ philosophy stands in the very core of the Zionist left school. It is this very perception that led the Israeli left to believe that ‘two states for two people’ is a viable option. Clearly the two state solution promises shalom: it pledges personal security as well as a refuge to the Jewish people. A year ago, in the days leading towards the unilateral disengagement from Gaza, Sharon declared: “we (the Israelis) want shalom but we want to define its terms and conditions”.
The Israeli shalom seekers always want to ‘define the terms and conditions’. True, Avnery’s, Peres’s and Sharon’s ‘terms and conditions’ are varied, yet, they all believe in partitions between people. They all believe in two states for the two people. They may dispute the borders, but they all aim to resolve the Jewish question both in personal and national terms.
The entire shalom movement is concerned with different methods of division between the Jew and the goy. This is the real meaning of the Israeli shalom. Sadly enough, just as separateness is the central purpose of Zionism, this bizarre self-centric political worldview stands at the core of Israeli left thinking. This is the logic behind the Israeli shalom movement’s collective dismissal of the Palestinian cause, i.e. “the right of return”. One may ask how it is possible that the Israeli left ignores the cause of their foes, the people they intend to make shalom with. How can the Israelis ever establish harmonious relationships with their neighbours? The answer is simple: the Israeli left isn’t interested in reconciliation and harmony. They are interested in shalom and shalom is not peace.
Six months ago Bush called Sharon a ‘man of peace’. Apparently, Bush was not that wrong, he was just lost in translation. Sharon isn’t a man of peace, he is a man of shalom. Being a militant nationalist Jew as well an experienced tactician, Sharon managed to grasp the biggest paradox within Zionist political thought. Within the Zionist discourse, it is the left who are leading towards a hard-core national and racist state. The hawks, on the other hand, push forwards towards a multi-national reality of ‘one state’. As bizarre as it may sound to some, it is the Jewish settlers who engage in the creation of an indivisible social reality of a single state, albeit with a vast Palestinian majority. It is the settlers who are bringing the Jewish national state down. Sharon, himself a historic mentor of the settler movement, has managed to diagnose this very flaw within the settler philosophy. The old man now realises that the maintenance of the Jewish state and its salvation from a demographic catastrophe is totally dependent on the immediate disengagement from the Palestinian population. Sharon and the shalom camp want a solid Jewish state with a clear Jewish majority. This realisation matured recently into a pullout from Gaza, it would mean a withdraw from the West Bank as well in the near future.
Sharon has indeed joined the Israeli shalom movement but this isn’t to say that he has become a peace lover. As it seems, the real meaning of the word peace doesn’t translate into modern Hebrew. The meaning of peace doesn’t translate into the Israeli reality.
Furthermore, not only does peace not translate into ;shalomt; the sincere Israeli aim towards shalom guarantees nothing but the continuation of war. If the outcome of shalom is indeed the division of the land between two peoples, it can never bring harmony and reconciliation to the region. The reasons are obvious. Shalom can never address both the Zionist and the Palestinian causes: it fails to address the morally grounded Palestinian right of return. But it fails as well to address the outrageous Jewish nationalist demand to settle in the entire land of greater Israel at the expense of the indigenous Palestinians. Shalom is thus the continuation of war. Sharon is certainly a shalom seeker. This is probably the reason that Blair and Bush are so excited about him. With Sharon in power, and it looks as if Sharon will remain in power, shalom will prevail. A unilateral shalom will be imposed on the Palestinians. Shalom that would allow the endless merciless bombardment of the Palestinians who insist upon returning to their homeland. Those who decide to live in peace will do a merciless shalom kill in what is left of the Holy Land.
Also see:
- ALI ABUNIMAH: Hamas, the I.R.A. and Us
- Hamas' choice: Recognition or resistance in the age of Obama - Pumped -
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Uprooted Palestinian
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