Futile PA posturing

I his previous article, Khalid Amayreh hailed the Good News comming from Cairo, he expected translation of the latest reconciliation agreement between Fatah into facts on the ground which he considered a perfect Ramadan gift for the Palestinian people. He wrongly considered the (PA) decision to move against the trouble-maker Dahlan would erase a major cause of the collision between Hamas and Fatah.

He called the PA alliance with the Zionists a "de facto alliance", and called to "start immediately to minimize security coordination with Israel to the point of ending this shameful chapter in our political life."

Shocked with Abbas direct talks with Perez "as Israel continued to expand Jewish settlements and steal more land in the West Bank", Mr. Amayeh finally got it, I hope, "The PA should first end all forms of security and intelligence coordination with the Israeli occupation army. It is really morally inconsistent, if not scandalous, to be seeking freedom from your enemy and at the same time conniving, colluding and coordinating with that enemy against a segment of your people.

In plain English, this type of behavior is called treason."
So its TREASON, not "de facto alliance"

However, Mr. Amayeh, wishfully, calls the PA, to "throw the keys" by dismantling itself as it becomes amply clear that the biggest obstacle to true Palestinian statehood is the pseudo-self rule authority itself."

I wonder what "Real Statehood" khalid is talking about, if its too late" for building a truly viable and territorially contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank"

"Hence, instead of the PLO political masturbation.... the PLO is advised to seek real historical alternatives to the establishment of a petty and deformed Palestinian "state" which we all know in our hearts would be more a solution of the Zionist problem and less a solution for the Palestinian problem. "

Futile PA posturing

[ 14/08/2011 - 07:18 PM ]

By Khalid Amayreh

Conflicting signals continued to come out of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as to its purported plans to seek United Nations recognition of a putative Palestinian state in September.

PA officials have been making nearly daily statements insisting that their quest for UN recognition and membership is final and irreversible.

PLO representative to the UN Riyadh Mansour has been quoted as saying that he would formally ask the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon for recognition of a Palestinian state on the 20th of September.

However, PA president Mahmoud Abbas has on several occasions, especially when meeting with visiting Western officials and diplomats, emphasized that PA plans to that effect were not irreversible and that if the Palestinians were given certain assurances, he would reconsider these plans.

Abbas was quoted recently as telling some foreign diplomats in Ramallah that going to the UN in September was not really a pressing Palestinian desire and that the PA was seeking other choices and alternatives.

"It is a choice of the last resort. It is not our number-1 choice."

Meanwhile, Abbas has been secretly meeting with Israeli president Shimon Peres in an effort to explore ways and means to bypass the so-called "September entitlement."

A Palestinian official was quoted by AFP on Saturday, 13 August, as saying that Peres, a certified war criminal for his role in the 1996 Kana massacre in Southern Lebanon , met with Abbas four times in recent months in a bid to resume stalled "peace" talks.

The meetings, which are likely to further embolden the Israeli stance and increase the Zionist entity's intransigence and insolence, took place as Israel continued to expand Jewish settlements and steal more land in the West Bank.

Israel announced recently plans to build thousands of additional settler units in occupied East Jerusalem, which would irreversibly kill any remaining prospects for the creation of a viable Palestinian state, especially one with Jerusalem as its capital.

The Palestinian official pointed out that a fifth meeting between Abbas and Peres was scheduled to take place in Amman recently. However, the meeting reportedly was called off after Netanyahu instructed Peres not to travel to the Jordanian capital for the meeting.

The content of the other previous meetings was forwarded to Netanyahu.

Netanyahu has called the decision to seek recognition of a putative Palestinian state at the UN in September an "expected but regrettable step."

"Abbas has apparently decided to avoid direct negotiations with Prime Minister Netanyahu," read a statement issued by Netanyahu's bureau. "The Prime Minister still believes that only direct and real negotiations- not unilateral decisions-can advance the peace process."

The Palestinians and the bulk of the international community are convinced that Netanyahu, a pathological liar, is only posturing and that he only wants to gain time to create more facts on the ground by building more Jewish settlements.

The PA-run media has been portraying the "September entitlement" as a watershed or a historical turning point that would change the course of the Palestinian cause.

However, many serious analysts, Palestinian and otherwise, dismiss the high-expectations from PA plans to seek UN recognition and membership as amounting to false euphoria.

While the PA may succeed in attaining a certain diplomatic achievement at the UN general assembly, it is highly doubtful that such an achievement would be translated into tangible achievements in occupied West Bank, especially in East Jerusalem, the target of frantic Zionist efforts to build more settler units.

Indeed, the absence of solid efforts to pressure the apartheid Israeli entity to end its Nazi-like occupation of the Palestinian homeland, any symbolic but unsubstantive Palestinian accomplishments might produce a paradoxical effect and increase collective Palestinian frustration and disillusionment.

The PA, itself an entity whose very survival is dependent on American support and backing, would only appeal to international community for help and protection against the lawless and criminal entity, namely Israel.

However, Israel, which controls both American politics and policies by virtue of controlling congress and the two main American political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, would fly in the face of international community, including the European Union, and scuttle any genuine attempt by the Palestinians to achieve true independence and delivery from the clutches of the Nazi-like occupation.

This is not to say, of course, that the Palestinian position is totally hopeless. The PA, in order to convince the world that it is not posturing, should demonstrate its seriousness and commitment to achieve freedom for its people who have been languishing under the nefarious Israeli occupation for more than 44 years.

The PA should first end all forms of security and intelligence coordination with the Israeli occupation army. It is really morally inconsistent, if not scandalous, to be seeking freedom from your enemy and at the same time conniving, colluding and coordinating with that enemy against a segment of your people.

In plain English, this type of behavior is called treason.

The PA leadership should also be willing and ready to "throw the keys" by dismantling itself as it becomes amply clear that the biggest obstacle to true Palestinian statehood is the pseudo-self rule authority itself.

Yes, there will be sacrifices and many people would lose their salaries and income. But in strategic terms, the liquidation of the PA would help redefine the Palestinian cause as it really is, as the cause of a people languishing for decades under a criminal occupation by a foreign colonialist power.

Finally, those in the Palestinian leadership ought to realize that it is already too late for building a truly viable and territorially contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank.

Hence, instead of the political masturbation the PLO has been indulging in while Israel is building more settlements and carving more Palestinian land, the PLO is advised to seek real historical alternatives to the establishment of a petty and deformed Palestinian "state" which we all know in our hearts would be more a solution of the Zionist problem and less a solution for the Palestinian problem.