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Are USA and Israel on clash course?

- Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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With a firm US president searching for ways and means to establish the much delayed Palestine state, both USA and Israel try to underplay the emerging conflictual trend in US-Israel relations. Many would, however, immediately quip to say Israel would not antagonize USA because that would put an end to Zionist expansion and holocaust in Palestine . President Barack Obama insists Israel on imbibing true democratic norms in its relationship with Palestinians, but Israel refuses to budge. Israeli leaders, particularly the hawkish ones, know that would spell disaster to nuclear Israel ’s possible global ambitions. The US regards the illegal Jewish settlements -home to some 280,000 Israelis - as obstacles to the peace process. But Israeli bulldozers demolish Palestinian settlements, kill or drive the Palestinians away and occupy their lands as well. Israel believes in its illegal constructions of settlements in Palestine and genocides of Palestinians. The new Israeli cabinet largely opposes dismantling the outposts despite the fact that Israel agreed to it under the 2003 peace plan "roadmap". Instead of a two-state solution backed by the US and the EU, Netanyahu is calling for a confusing "triple-track" peace process that includes progress on the political, security and economic front.. Whether Netanyahu clings to the original Zionist aggressive position will have a major bearing on the future course of Obama diplomacy.

 

 

 

 

On May 18, President Obama met Benjamin Netanyahu, is a conservative who has pointedly stopped short of accepting the idea of a Palestinian state, which is the goal of the president and most other world leaders. There long have been predictions that the first Oval Office meeting between the two leaders would result in a noisy collision, as happened in 1996 when Netanyahu, in his previous term as prime minister, met with President Clinton. During Netanyahu's visit to the US  month, President Obama told him all settlement activity must end and also urged the Israeli leader to accept a Palestinian state and said Israel had an obligation under the 2003 agreement to stop Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Israel would have to respond by halting the construction and expansion of settlements, and agree to withdraw from land taken since 1967. The right of return of Palestinian refugees and the future status of Jerusalem would be negotiated within the framework of the deal. But Israeli foreign minister extremist hawkish Avigdor Lieberman has said the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was at a "dead end".

 

 

The Israeli government does not seem to have much faith in the Obama administration's plan to talk Iran out of enriching uranium, but it is not Israel ’s business. Netanyahu would have liked a tough deadline to be built into any talks, but Obama has shown that he could be tougher if forced to be. The starkly different views of a Palestinian state mean President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu have built the chance of a collision into their new relationship. Although Israel hopes its long-standing relationship with the US would always remain strong, Netanyahu has to do at least some of the basics as suggested by Obama to creat4e conditions for the creation of Palestine . He certainly finds himself under pressure from the US president. Suspicious of every Israeli fascist move a new design to invade and kill defenseless people of Palestine, Palestinians reject that approach. Ignoring protests from international community, Israel has sanctioned 121 settlements over the years and Jewish settlers have put up an estimated 100 outposts since the early 1990s.

 

 

Illegal existence and expansion strategies are the crude fact about Zionist Israel. As the illegal occupiers of Palestinian lands by continuously constructing illegal settlements against UN stipulations, Israel considers personal and national security as their number one priority. And hence, Netanyahu has not endorsed the establishment of a Palestinian state. President Obama wants Israel to keep its commitment under the 2003 "road map" peace plan to halt all settlement activity, including so-called "natural growth," under which new homes are built within existing enclaves for growing settler families. Pursuing a project that Washington has already opposed as an obstacle to peace efforts, an Israeli official on May 18 confirmed that contractors had been asked for plans to expand a settlement in the occupied West Bank . Critics said the move was deliberately timed by settlers to spotlight their cause. On the one hand, Benjamin Netanyahu says settlements in the occupied West Bank will be allowed to expand despite US objections, on the other, Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to remove makeshift outposts in the West Bank that the Israeli government itself considers illegal. Netanyahu claims he has no intention to construct new settlements, but it makes no sense to ask us not to answer to the needs of natural growth and to stop all construction.

 

 

A close ally of USA , Israel has dominated the terror scene of the Mideast with regular killings of innocent Palestinians so as to escape any demand for the return of the lands now under fascist Israel custody. Ignoring international outcry against them, Israel has embarked upon massive illegal settlements in Palestine for decades now. Israel makes it almost impossible for Palestinians to get building permits in East Jerusalem, while, Israel does not want to remove the illegal settlements; instead, it wants to stop the illegal activity as a compromise which actually means nothing because would not bar so-called “natural growth” of existing settlements in the West Bank, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War. This means halting settlement expansion would be "tricky," especially when the settlement supporters are encouraged so much that they are powerful enough to punish any Israeli government that moves to halt them. Israel has always promoted arrogant Jews to lead the nation so that Israel  would not have to surrender the lands to the Palestinians and let them establish a nation of their own.

 

 

 

Israel spreads false threat perceptions for advancing its strategic goals.

Nuclear Israel mysteriously believes, and makes others also believe, that a nuclear-armed Iran was a threat to its existence. Zionist Israel is widely considered to be the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear armed state and sees Iran emerging as a nuclear competitor. Both USA and Israel split the PLO and Palestinians to play one against the other. Israel searches for reasons to stay in Palestine and kill the defenseless Palestinians. Israel is keen to make an anti-Iran coalition with Sunni Arab states. The Obama administration, meanwhile, is trying to promote dialogue with both Iran and Syria , and has reiterated their backing for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 

 

 

Clearly, the key Mideast issue is Palestinian statehood, but Israel delays it by creating obstacles deliberately. A two-state solution, Obama is focused now, based on independent Palestinian statehood is a goal strongly backed by the US and key Arab nations including Jordan and Egypt , Israel ’s only allies among Arab states. But Netanyahu has so far been unwilling to endorse a two-state solution, saying he wants a "fresh approach". Israel has grown bold over years of holocaust and destructions, because, all these years USA has permitted so far illegal settlement constructions in occupied Palestinian territories and this has emboldened the Israeli leadership to complete the mission of ousting Palestinians from Palestine. The Israeli leader's defense and foreign ministers have also dropped some heavy hints of defiance, arrogance and aggressiveness expecting Obama to follow the hints up as his predecessors did for decades and pursue Israeli destructive goals. But in an address to US supporters of Israel at the start of May, Netanyahu said he favored a "triple track" approach and the political progress must be combined with a strengthening of the Palestinian security apparatus and moved to stimulate the Palestinian economy.  

 

 

Clearly, the Obama administration backs the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of the solution to the Middle East conflict, though Netanyahu, who’s fascist Israel controls the Palestinian territories and the resources there, has yet to endorse the idea. Netanyahu has been vague in public about the scope of any future peace talks. His main right-wing and ultra-Orthodox coalition partners oppose negotiations on the so-called core issues -- the borders of a Palestinian state as well as the fate of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees.

 

   

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President Obama has signaled his support for the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan drawn up in 2002, which calls for reciprocal steps toward peace that would probably take years. Since taking office, Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, have gone out of their way to insist a two state solution is the only solution to the decades’ old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They also appear keen to push for wider regional peace. President Obama has made ample number of hints to Tel Aviv that he could be entirely different than his predecessors. U.S. envoy George Mitchell said on 08 June. Palestinians have rejected his proposed shift of focus away from territorial issues, whose complexity, Netanyahu has said US president Obama wants "immediate" talks between the Palestinians and Israel to forge a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement and has frustrated U.S.-backed attempts to reach a final peace deal. the aim of such talks was "a comprehensive peace and normalization of relations" between Israel and its neighbors, which would also serve "the security interests of the United States ."

 

 

During his victorious election campaign earlier this year Obama remained opposed to Palestinian statehood, and spoke out vociferously against the Hamas administration which runs the Gaza Strip which gave Israel the impression that they are safe always.  Thinking Obama would side with Israeli fascism, Israeli leaders planned the holocaust  in Palestine. On 04 June, President Obama gave a major speech on US relations with the Muslim world in Egypt calling for new relationships. President Obama seemed sympathetic to the genuine PLO message for peace. PLO chief Abbas has said renewed negotiations would be pointless unless Netanyahu first endorsed the U.S.-backed goal of Palestinian statehood and halted, as Obama has demanded, the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Under U.S. pressure to soften his positions, Netanyahu plans to spell out his peace policies in a major speech later in June.

 

 

Israel cannot afford to ignore Obama’s dutiful demand, but it does that it would be on its own perils.  Differences with U.S. President Obama over Jewish settlement of occupied West Bank land that Palestinians want for a state has some experts predicting a price in terms of U.S. fiscal support and investment for Israel no matter who would rule Israel hereafter. Some diplomats say Washington could eventually reconsider Israel 's receipt of hefty U.S. loan guarantees or $3 billion in annual defense aid. That would scare off foreign investors seeking a buffer against Middle East instability. There are also signs the EU, Israel 's biggest export market, could follow the American lead by making a concerted push to prevent products from settlements from receiving tax privileges within the 27-nation bloc. Once opposed by the USA and its allies, Israel will have difficult days ahead.

 

 

 

After having used up all former American presidents to advance its terror goals in Mideast, Israel wants now to employ President Obama also as its poster boy, but Obama resists. Israel harvests in US double-speak on Israeli illegal settlements in Palestine . According to the reports, Dov Weisglass, chief of staff to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said in an op-ed piece published this week in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot that the Bush administration and Israel had an understanding under which Israel could expand settlements within their existing boundaries. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed arguments that Israel and the Bush administration had an understanding under which Israel could keep expanding Jewish settlements on the West Bank. Clinton ’s hard line suggests Barack Obama has no intention of relenting on his call for a settlement freeze by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, whose fragile, two-month old government could fall if he heeded it.. But the simmering threats from Israel are being ignored by the Obama administration.

 

 

However, Israel cannot exist without the support of USA. But Israel like to play its cards too well before they agree to any new US suggestions. Israel also contends, rather bluffs, like India with regard to Kashmiris and Pakistanis, that Hamas “militants” Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party criticized then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to restart talks on core issues at a peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland in November 2007. The talks bogged down last year and broke off as President Bush was stepping out of White House after he celebrated the 60th anniversary of Israel in Israel and Israel went to war in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in late December killing thousands of innocent Palestinians.

 

 

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Had an Islamic nation invaded Israel , desot4ryed  the towns there and killed thousands of Jews, Western world plus its Eastern anti-Islamic puppets like India, would have made a big fuss about it and US-led terror forces would have swiftly entered the nation to bulldoze the country and kill al Muslims in that country enmasse. But Zionist Israel killed thousands of Palestinians, including women and children, no punishment has been meted out to the fascist regime leaders in Tel-Aviv so far. Terrorist Israel still call the defenseless Palestinians “terrorists”. President Obama must condemn the Israeli fascist trends and bring the criminals to justice  through special tribunals. 

 

 

Global state terrorists (GST) are united on strategic lines. Gamblers know the art of deceptive moves.  Israel, like India , knows it too well the art of deceptive moves. Jewish settlements in the West Bank are one of the major stumbling blocks to a Middle East peace deal. Every colonial or imperialist power is essentially a worst gambler. In terrorizing Palestinians, unleashing holocaust and annexing alien lands, Israel skillfully played its US card to punish the innocent Palestinians collectively. Netanyahu has been clear: he sees no reason to stop the building. Abbas has been equally clear - he will not sit down with the Israelis until all settlement growth is frozen. 

 

 

 

Israel has to behave well. President Obama can ensure a suitable security system for Israel in exchange for the Palestine state and, obviously, Arabs then may not have any reason to go for war with nuclear Israel surrounded by high precision military equipments, once their peace plan is executed in good faith and spirits. Instead of a two state solution backed by the US and the EU, Netanyahu confuses the world by calling for a "triple-track" peace process that includes progress on the political, security and economic front. Israeli leaders look for some hints from the US statements of the Obama administration as escape routes for Israel to pick up so that the Palestine issue could be put off. If, however, Israeli terrorists continue to play mischief even with USA, President Obama would be left with no option but to call Israeli bluff and initiate punitive measures both directly and through UNSC.

 

 

The Middle East is going through a critical stage that requires a swift action to end the conflict. Advocates for peace argue that because of ongoing settlement growth and the disillusionment of the Palestinians, the chances for a two-state solution are dwindling. Britain ’s Tony Blair, the former prime minister who is now a Mideast peace envoy, emphasized that time is limited. Blair voiced a note of anxiety. Many will closely watch to see whether he uses the phrase "two-state solution."  There is still room for discussions, but Palestinians in particular are hoping Obama will not just talk but act tough on the issue of expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Palestine state. Any call by Netanyahu to put a time limit on diplomatic overtures toward Iran could pose a challenge to Obama's intention to engage Tehran on issues ranging from its nuclear program to Afghanistan .

 

 

US President Obama has used simple language to tell Israel point blank to do justice for the Palestinians and other Arabs without wasting more time and energy to be able to sustain food relations with USA , and strictly asked it to leave Iranian issue to Washington to deicide it. President Obama reiterated his belief that the best chance of peace lies with the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel . That is exactly a sensible strong man would do in the present fascist circumstances. President Obama also seems to have promised to view the way they are going at the end of the year. It is a deadline of sorts.

 

 

If President Obama is serious about making peace in the Middle East, tough choices will be required from all sides, and that means there could be some bumpy moments ahead in the relationship between Israel and its best friend. More so when USA claims Israel and the US are natural allies. But only partially obscured by the mutual compliments at the White House were differences of tone and substance that would have been inconceivable under President George W Bush. Israeli officials suggest that any problems will be ironed out in joint US-Israeli work committees that are being set up. It might not be that easy. As a first step, U.S. officials have been pushing Israel to freeze the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank in return for a partial normalization of relations from the Arab states. Under this scenario, moderate Arab states would take steps such as exchanging diplomats and allowing commercial flights with Israel . Recently, Netanyahu has signaled that he wants Arab states involved in the peace effort. 

 

 

Israel is eager to keep renewing the “important links” with USA.  The moot question, therefore, is not whether USA and Israel are on a clash course. Rather, President Obama will succeed in his diplomatic efforts to persuade Israeli leaders to see reason and get the nation to agree for a just resolution of the long pending issue of establishment of Palestine state.  And, whether Obama would give up his efforts after preliminary steps, as Bush did by going all the way to Jerusalem to celebrate 60 anniversary of Israel and condemning the Palestinians, when the Palestinians were mourning the day as of international mischief on them killing thousands of innocent people, including women and children. President Obama has to side with he Palestinians if he sincerely wants to achieve what he intents by employing personal diplomacy with Israelis.  

 

President Obama should forget for now the historical bonds between two fascist democracies. More than the bonds between USA and Israel – both pursuing so far destructive polices, Mideast peace should be accorded prime space in Obama diplomacy henceforth. A Palestine state is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have own state, it's also in the interest of the Israeli people to stabilize the situation there and it's in the interest of the United States to get a peaceful Mideast. The president urged patience on Israel ’s rejection of his call for a halt to Jewish settlements in the West Bank . “Diplomacy is always a matter of a long hard slog. It's never a matter of quick results," Obama said. One could, therefore, hope for better world under the Obama presidency, even beyond Mideast peace. 

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Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Independent Researcher in World Affairs, The only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation,
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