Positive signs from Israel, but settlements must stop: Obama
Submitted by admin4 on 16 June 2009 - 1:49pm
By DPA,
Washington : US President Barack Obama said Monday there was some "positive movement" towards peace after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognised the Palestinians' right to an independent state.
But Obama made clear he would not back down from his demand that Israel stop all settlement activity, a key disagreement that remains between the two long-time allies.
In a major policy speech Sunday, Netanyahu for the first time backed the creation of a Palestinian state, which had been another key source of tension between Obama's administration and Israel.
But Netanyahu's offer came with a series of conditions, including demilitarising the West Bank and an undivided Jerusalem, that were quickly rejected by the Palestinian Authority and Arab states.
Overall, I thought there was some positive movement," Obama said of the speech, after a meeting with Italian President Silvio Berlusconi at the White House. "What we are seeing is at least the possibility we can restart serious talks."
Netanyahu fell short of Obama's demand to stop all settlement activity. While Netanyahu promised no new settlements in the West Bank, he said Israel would continue to support "natural growth" in existing settlements.
Obama said both sides would still have to take steps to make peace a possibility. For Israel, that means a cessation of settlements." For Palestinians, it signifies "an end to violence" against Israel.
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What can the Palestinians Expect frm a Morbid, Racist Netanyahu?
Will anybody accept if a captured robber is allowed to decide how much of the stolen things he will return and how much of the stolen property that he will keep for himself.
Netanyahu's ideas are similar to this analogy. This morbid, racist Zionist could not have given this “wonderful” new formula to solve the Palestine issue without the authorisation and support of the bossman called partner--- U.S. Administration.
Who is the boss any way? Obama or Netanyahu?
Washington’s subordination to Israel is the biggest mystery in contemporary history considering the fact that the so called pro-Israeli domestic lobby is not all Jewish, Dick Cheney is not a Jew, but he is more than a Jew when it comes to the matter of supporting Israel’s colonialist policies.
Israel has no alternative but to serve as a U.S. military base in the region, but one big difference is that all other military bases comply with the demand of the big boss except Israel.
Israel has expanded its settlement with continued U.S. political, military and financial backing( US$ 10 Billion a year, in terms of per capita aid, the highest in the world) Israel now controls 42 percent of the West Bank and Netanyahu says that he will allow a State called Palestine to be formed, but according to his new plan, Israel continues to hold the right continue to build more settlements.
This means eventually, Israel which now control 42% , will occupy the entire West Bank pushing the Palestinians out on to the East bank. What a stupidly unjust idea? What he suggests is much worse than the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Does anyone know the area where the entity called Palestinian State will be established? By his mutilation, Netanyahu has further undermined the hopes for a peaceful diplomatic settlement by a well designed plot.
The terrible consequences of his grand idea are so obvious.
There seems to be no alternative for Palestinian Liberation movement to reduce or eliminate the brutal military occupation of Israel except to increase the resistance and raise ratio of retaliatory crimes, killings and the sufferings of the Israelis.
This reaction is immoral, not proper, but has it been proper to disregard the far worse sufferings of Palestinians for 62 years with the crucial support of the U.S.?
Israel is not a State with an army. The ARMY is the State of Israel. And the Israeli army is the adjunct of the U.S. military force. Israel is the only racist militocracy in the world (after Hitler’s).
Forceful occupation and colonization will never ever be permanently successful in 21st Century.
Huge Empires rose and fell in history.
If might is right all the time, people will lose their faith in God, and more and more will challenge the massively well organized State Terror by powerful nations by counter terror and in the process shedding more innocent blood.
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