The US is too dishonest to be peace broker between Israel and the Palestinians. Time for a civil uprising that ends the Occupation
Just finished watching the noon news on Ajazeera International (that first-rate international station boycotted by all major cable networks that refuse to carry any station that tells the other side of the story. So much for First Amendment Rights in the US). In any case the leading story was the just completed meeting between Secretary Rice of the US, Olmert the Israeli Prime Minister and Abbas of the Palestinian Authority under Israeli Occupation. The interesting story out of this meeting is the fact that Rice instead of moving thing forward toward final status negotiation is going back to several years ago and asking for the first phase of the Road Map, that proved nothing more than a license for Israel to build its Apartheid Wall and steal more lands for settlement and continue its ethnic and religious cleansing of Arab Muslims and Christians from the City of Jerusalem.
Again, the US is defining the conflict not in terms of occupation and an end to the Israeli Occupation but in terms of security for Israel while it expands settlements and of course continues building the Wall while strangling the Palestinians along every step of the way.
Not surprising is the fact that Mahmoud Abbas and his team of negotiators did not walk away from the meeting with Rice and Olmert to show their protest and anger about the entire dealing of the US administration with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. One would think that the PA represented by Mahmoud Abbas after hearing and reading of the agreement between Bush and Olmert would use the occasion of the meeting with Rice as a platform to insist on the Arab Peace Plan and to put an end to the farce that is the Road Map, or use the occasion to turn the keys of managing the Occupation to Israel.
Of course any one familiar with the US and its policies in the Middle East can see, with the exception of the few on the Palestinian negotiating team, that the US could never be the honest broker and could never be the party that can bring peace between the two parties. The US is simply part of the Israeli Occupation, in fact a very important partner and sponsor of the Israeli Occupation, funding the army of occupation, funding the expansion of settlements, funding and sponsoring the Apartheid Wall and insulating Israel from any need to heed the international community and always protecting Israel from any actions sponsored by the UN.
Never understood why the Arabs and in particular the Palestinians could believe the US as honest broker when the US in violation of its own laws on arms export, allows Israel to use US supplied weapons to kill civilians and destroy infrastructures. How could the US be an impartial broker in this conflict when the decisions are made in Tel-Aviv and not in Washington, and where the US Congress under control and management by the Israeli Lobby could stop and put an end to any peace efforts made by the administration. How could the US be the honest broker when the decision makers in the White House and the State Department are die hard Likudist Zionist or die hard evangelical Christians who believe in the conversion of Jews or putting them to death. How could the US be the honest broker when it stood by and allowed and funded all of Israeli illegal activities in the Occupied Territories? The US is too pregnant and too poisoned with Zionism to ever be an impartial and honest broker in the conflict. If the US does not allow Aljazeera International, accompany owned by one of its closest allies in the Middle East to air in the US, how can such a country be the honest broker. When it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict the US is simply too dishonest and simply under the undue influence of the Israeli Lobby to ever bring peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
What is needed is for the Palestinians to think of a third apprising, this time, consistent, persistent and well disciplined civil uprising the will force the Israeli public and the Jewish community at large to think seriously of ending the Occupation. What the Palestinians need to do is put an end to the joke that is the Palestinian Authority, turn over the keys to Israel and allow the people to take matters in their hands. It is time for ALL Palestinians to burn their Israeli identity cards in mass in public view, end any recognition of the check points, wear the yellow arm bands with the star of David on it, tattoo every Palestinian with a number, to remind the Jews of the way they were treated by the Nazi. This time around there is no room or presence for any guns, rockets, suicide bombing, 70 virgins, and armed militias of the PA. There is only one thing to do, keep the civil uprising going until the Israelis and the US give up on the Occupation. Time for a new ideas and new leadership and time to put an end to the joke that is the peace process. Time to end the Occupation.

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