Nasir Khan’s Note: The betrayal and isolation of the Palestinian people has run its full course. The imbecile Arab regimes (in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc.,) more in the nature of prehistoric shapeless oddities, have failed to support meaningfully the cause of the occupied, oppressed and brutalized fellow Arabs of Palestine. Instead, they have furthered the U.S. imperialism’s geopolitical interests in the Middle East so that the United States controls the Middle East and it remains the prime guarantor of the continued support to their corrupt and decadent dynastic rule and their antidemocratic system.
The present leadership of the Palestinian people is divided; the myopic PA President Abbas has been dancing to the tunes of Tel Aviv and Washington for long. A growing number of the suffering people of Palestine regard him a traitor and puppet of the U.S. and the Israeli Zionists.
The talk of peace and peace negotiations under various U.S. administrations served only Zionist expansion and further colonization of the occupied Palestine. If President Obama had any intention to stop Israel’s ever-increasing expropriation of the Palestinian land then he has failed miserably. Obviously, Secretary of State Clinton, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli lobby struck at his intentions and nullified him. It leaves no doubt about who control American foreign policy.
Where can the Palestinians go from here? The question of establishing a viable independent state is in the doldrums. The occupied land has been eaten up by Israel. That leaves the possibility of one-state solution the only alternative for the Israelis and the Palestinians.
But if Israel turns its back on its previous history of colonization and expropriation, accepts the UN resolutions and reverts to the pre-1967 borders by vacating all its illegal settlements then the two-state solution has a chance to materialize. But this is more of a long shot in the dark.
Mr Yesh Prabhu’s advocacy of declaring an independent state by Palestinians can be instrumental in breaking the present impasse. At least, the Palestinians will not lose anything. On the contrary, it can take the matters out of the hands of Washington and Tel Aviv and this may create a new momentum. But one major hurdle remains: the divided Palestinian leadership of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. If Abbas disappears then even worse traitors like Mohammad Dahlan may be waiting for a complete sell-out to Washington and Tel Aviv.
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Declare Independence of Palestine Now
Yesh Prabhu, A Sane Voice For Peace Blog, Nov. 10, 2009
It is now abundantly clear that the stalled negotiation for peace in the Middle East is now dead.
During Secretary of State Clinton’s recent short sojourn through the region, in her joint press conference with Mr. Netanyahu in Jerusalem, she effusively praised Netanyahu’s intransigence regarding Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank. The peace process died when she bizarrely described as “unprecedented” Mr. Netanyahu’s paltry concession to slow down the feverish tempo of building illegal housing units in the occupied territories. Even though she hastily tried to back-track, the damage to the peace process had been done. It was as if she had given the peace process a death blow. The Palestinian negotiators were deeply shocked. Did not President Obama, and even Mrs. Clinton herself, say only a month ago that the Israeli settlements in the occupied land were illegitimate? It dawned on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that the peace process was dead, and so he announced that he will be resigning from his position soon. He had threatened to resign a couple of times on previous occasions, of course, but this time it seems that he means to carry out his threat.
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American bases must go, Japanese protesters demand
November 14, 2009Email
Visiting US President Barack Obama faced a mass protest in central Tokyo on Friday as activists demanded the withdrawal of the 47,000 US troops still based in Japan.
Demonstrators marched on the US embassy, where survivors of the US atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki delivered a letter urging Mr Obama to do more to cut Washington’s enormous nuclear weapons stockpile.
The president also came under fire for not taking the time to visit the two cities and failing to establish a timetable for a withdrawal from Afghanistan.
At a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Mr Obama denied that his administration has been dithering over Afghanistan.
He insisted his next step would not be seen as an “open-ended commitment and that he was bent on “getting this right,” although he did not elaborate further.
Mr Hatoyama – who leads the centre-left Democratic Party which ousted the pro-US administration in August’s elections – said Japan would end a refuelling mission for US occupation forces in Afghanistan.
But he softened the blow by pledging £3 billion for Afghan schools, agriculture and police.
Last weekend over 20,000 people rallied on Okinawa, home to more than half the US forces in Japan, and called on Mr Hatoyama to scrap a 2006 bilateral pact which was signed with former president George W Bush.
Under that agreement around 8,000 US soldiers would remain in Okinawa after 2012 and Japan would foot part of the bill to transfer the rest to Guam.
In September, the government vowed to “re-examine” the 2006 agreement, particularly plans to build a new helicopter base in Okinawa.
But yesterday Mr Hatoyama said: “It will be a very difficult issue, but as time goes by I think it will become more difficult to resolve, so we understand we need to resolve the issue as soon as possible and we will work to do that.”
Japanese Communist Party secretariat head Ichida Tadayoshi called on the Hatoyama government to immediately “initiate diplomatic negotiations with the US government in a forceful manner that completely meets Okinawans’ demands.”
Most islanders were opposed to any realignment of US bases on Okinawa, he stressed.
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