In a yesteryear tale, an old hunter, worn by the roughness of the fight for survival, tries to convey the secrets of hunting to his grandchild, saying, “You have to be extremely careful in the mountain, since, when the wild animal you’re chasing is fierce, your shot may backfire.”

 

It seems that young Barack Obama has not learnt from his grandfather that, in the political tangle of the Levante, the different parties can be harsh, indocile and, quite often, deceitful. With the candidness of a brand-new president, he has put his mind –with all his strength and tenacity– to solving the Middle East conflict in a pest-infested forest, and, like in the story of the old hunter, has not hit the target. In clear contrast with his original purpose, and based on the great disparity between his preliminary demands and the feebleness of his treatment of Israel, Obama has provoked the death and final grave of the idea of a Palestinian State. For Israel, that act of weakness is enough for the Jewish State of Cisjudea to be founded ‘de facto.’ The dream of a Palestinian State of Cisjordan is now history. This may be the future result in all the territory, just as a substitute for the State of Israel, in the frame of a binational state.

 

 

In his famous Cairo University speech, Obama broke through like a meteorite, with the image of a handsome leader heading the world’s mightiest superpower, and demanded the creation of a Palestinian state together with an immediate freezing of all Israeli Cisjordan settlements. Today, after the pale image the meeting between the leaders of Israel, the United States and the Palestinian Authority left in us, and only five months from that renown speech, we can sadly assert that Obama gave us the impression of a cheap politician who tried to sell his goods with the artful and seductive words of someone who has the world’s power in his hands, but eventually turned out to be hollow and sterile, from a weak leader who was easily subdued by the Israeli political and military power, and the economic control of Jewish groups and lobby in the United States.

 

Obama has fallen on his knees in front of a Netanyahu that, in a hypocrite manner demands from Abu Mazen whether he wants to be like Arafat (the bad one) of like Sadat (the good one), whereas the Israeli Prime Minister openly denies the least possibility to negotiate what was Sadat’s main demand and highest achievement: Israel’s complete withdrawal up to the last inch from Egyptian territory conquered during the 1967 war.

 

Obama’s capitulation was so humiliating that at the very moment he’s declaring at the UN General Assembly podium that Israel should withdraw to the 1967 borders, Minister of Defense Ehud Barak took care to humiliate him public by divulging to the four winds a new order from his office authorizing the immediate building of new houses for Jews in the Karnei Shomron colony, right in Cisjordan center. Obama could not do anything but swallow this bitter pill.

 

Obama was cornered in a shameful position. It is very contradictory and dangerous to impose drastic conditions and to criticize Israel when the latter answers with political blows, making fun in front of his face while Obama responds with impotence and passivity, the US being the supporting spinal cord and endless financial source of Israel. The same source that, directly or indirectly (a question of appearance that in the national pocket is but a gross lie) finances every civilian settlement in Cisjordan.

 

 

Reports detailing the events of this tripartite summit are a clear example of the lack of knowledge of factors that impel the parties, especially Israel’s. There are those who regret missing the opportunity; others mention the importance for the meaning of the simple fact or the meeting, greetings and picture in common. Others still, put all their expectations in the result of renewed unconditioned negotiations starting on that date.

 

It is clear that for the Palestinians, the weak party, lacking in possibilities and influence unless with American support, there just remains to participate in negotiations, pray and long for a drastic American intervention. The Jewish party, convinced that it has the Americans under its control, has already started to implement its plan. It will participate for an indefinite time in the parody of negotiations, and, at the same time, pushes full throttle (and, typically, hiding) the machinery of creation and establishment of the new State of Cisjudea, widening and deepening the civilian colonization in all Cisjordan.

 

 

Unlike the State of Israel, which conducts itself –not in every aspect, but in its majority– by a legal and democratic order, the State of Cisjudea has a ’special order for Jews.’ While in Israel’s declaration of independence “the development of the country will be promoted for the benefit of all its inhabitants,” in Cisjudea a clear discrimination in favor of the Jewish inhabitants will be stressed. While in Israel the same document stated the principles by which “complete equality of political and social rights will be ensured to all inhabitants without difference of creed, race or sex,” in Cisjudea there will be an Apartheid system in favor of the Jewish population and in detriment of the Palestinian population. Arguments about “security” are but a vulgar lie in order to allow the army to serve as pawns that protect the civilian conquer of the territory, which is nothing to do with Israel’s “security.”

 

In Cisjudea, Palestinians lack the majority of political rights and they do not enjoy full liberties as it is the case of its Jewish inhabitants. The Police is responsible for public order among Jews, whereas the Army is for Palestinians. Civilian justice is the frame for the Jewish population, whereas Palestinians have to show up before military courts. The road and thoroughfare system consists of separate lanes for Jews, where Palestinians are denied access. Likewise, central services for the supply of water and communications are based on different systems.

 

Not in vain, both for Israel as well as for Cisjudea, there are not defined territorial borders. The territorial ambitions of Cisjudea’s rabbis and leaders, who really hold the power –and not the Israeli government–, are still far from being satisfied. Cisjordan is only a part of what inspires its heroic hymn: “The Jordan River has two banks, one is ours (Cisjordan) and the other one too (Transjordan).” It is to assume that the superior command of these colonizers has already programmed the fight that will give way to the conquer of Transjordan. It would be cautious to quicky advice King Abdallah of Jordan to start looking for a comfortable apartment in London, for example.

 

As an epilog to this show, we only have left for the Jewish people to thank the great contribution of Barack Obama. Not his political-military-economic inconditional support to Israel, which surely will carry serious complications in the future. Jews should thank Obama that he’s put an end to the history of this weak and defenseless people. It is now clear that the political-military power of Israel, together with the economic one of the diasporas Jews, especially of the United States, are a world power who even the mighty Americans are afraid of when confronting it.

 

Hopefully I’ll be proved wrong

 

Daniel Kupervaser

Herzlya – Israel  26-9-09
http://daniel.kupervaser.com/blog/en

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