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Palestine: No more time-wasting negotiations :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]Those who urge the Palestinians to return to talks with Israel are in fact seeking to evade justice
Forget our solemn promises nearly a century ago to give the Arabs independence in return for their help in World War I. Forget our pledge in 1922, when accepting the mandate from the League of Nations, to prepare the Palestinians for independence. Under the mandate Jews taking up residence in Palestine were supposed to have Palestinian citizenship. Aware of Arab concerns that the Balfour Declaration was being interpreted in an "exaggerated" way by Zionists and their sympathizers, the British government issued a White Paper that same year clarifying the position. "It is the intention of His Majestys government to foster the establishment of a full measure of self-government in Palestine. But this should be accomplished by gradual stages "
How gradual can you get?
The other day Britains Foreign Secretary William Hague, attending a United Nations gathering in aid of Libyan regime change, said of the Palestinian situation that the "only real way forward" was to go backwards to the negotiating table. "The consequences of failing to arrive at a two-state solution," he said, "could be catastrophic for the Middle East and the wider world, so we have to keep trying We want a secure Israel living alongside a viable Palestinian state."
Note the old trick of emphasizing Israels security while planting the idea that Palestine must make do with a barely "viable" existence. You never hear these jokers talk about a secure Palestine and a viable Israel.
And having changed the law to provide a safe haven for Israelis wanted for war crimes, and to enable Tzipi-Dee-Doo-Dah Livni to do her shopping in Bond Street without fear of arrest, the Israel-firsters in Westminster and they include 80 percent of Conservative MPs are now panic-stricken to think that Palestinians, by going direct, might acquire sufficient UN status to take proceeding against their playmates in the International Criminal Court and demand UN peacekeepers kick them off their territory.
WHAT Hague wants to see at the UN is a return to lopsided negotiations to avoid this embarrassment, and hes not saying which way Britain will vote. "Israelis and Palestinians committing themselves to return to negotiations, that is our objective. And that is why we and the 26 other European Union countries have withheld our positions on this. Were trying to use our leverage to persuade Israelis and Palestinians to do that."
Any rational explanation for this endless insistence on more time-wasting negotiations, which are simply a cover for continued Israeli expansion and land-grabs, is carefully avoided.
Last week Alistair Burt, the Foreign Office minister in charge of Middle East affairs, was telling Parliament: "There is no alternative to negotiations and a solution cannot be imposed from outside " But, as anyone with a grain of sense knows, there has to be intervention from outside. To heal this cancerous sore the international community must deliver law, justice and equality to the Holy Land. Fundamental human rights and the rule of law are not negotiable. Indeed those who advocate returning to the negotiating table before a level playing field has been established only seek to evade justice and jettison UN resolutions for ever.
Sir Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Jewish MP, said it was inconsistent to support self-determination for people in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Syria but not Palestine, whose people "have been waiting 64 years for UN decisions to be implanted."