Oct 19, 2010 14:26 Moscow Time
Trilateral meeting of Russian and French Presidents and German Federal Chancellor, France's Deauville. Photo: RIA Novosti
Russia, France and Germany have come out in support of he Israeli-Palestinian talks and have said that they are prepared to help the negotiating process.
As to the Middle East, the three leaders point out in a joint statement following the French-German-Russian summit at Deauville; the three nations support direct talks between the Israelis and Palestinians and urge both parties to ensure that the talks prove successful within the time planned.
The statement also points out that Russia, France and Germany are ready to energetically contribute to the talks, above all through the use of the potential of the European Union and the “quartet” of the Middle East international negotiators.
October 26, 2010
President Obama sets up false requirements for Middle East peace, undermines Arab-Israeli negotiations
Dear Friend of Israel, Friend of FLAME:
Over the past several months, we've looked exhaustively at the issue of the recent Israeli settlement moratorium and demands by the Palestinians and President Obama that the freeze be continued.
We explained how the Palestinians refused to attend direct peace talks for nine months, despite Israel's implementation of a settlement freeze. We reviewed that fact that the Palestinians have made no concessions to the peace process's most obvious and critical issue: recognition of Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.
However, it should be noted here that the Palestinian Liberation Organization has not changed its negotiating positions at all in decades. As Ze'ev Binjamin Begin notes in a recent issue of Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper,
"Not only have the PLO's leaders held fast to their positions for the past 20 years, but they even boast of it. Abbas recently declared, "We will not relinquish any of our principles. Since the Palestinian National Council convention in Algeria in 1988, at which we [declared] a Palestinian state and recognized [UN] Resolutions 242 and 338, what concessions have we made on our principles? We insist on the 1967 borders, Jerusalem as our capital, and the refugees' rights according to the UN resolutions, especially [Resolution] 194. Our rights to water are also recognized by international law. Not a single word of our documents has been changed, from then to this very day. It has not happened and will not happen" (Al Ayyam, September 6, 2010).
But the issue of the settlements is mostly frustrating because it didn't even need to be an issue in these talks. It wasn't an issue in reaching a peace with Jordan or Egypt, and it wasn't an issue with the Palestinians . . . until President Obama made it a core issue.
As a non-profit educational organization, FLAME takes no positions on U.S. elections or candidates. We simply support those politicians who support Israel. But this week's FLAME Hotline, by US News and World Report publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, certainly raises the question of Mr. Obama's competence in world affairs, particularly in the Middle East---such as Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Iran's headlong race to build nuclear weapons, Iraq's stumbling progress toward democracy, and the dragging war in Afghanistan. One thing we can surely conclude is that President Obama has not been good for the Jews, at least those who believe Israel is central to US interests and to the survival of the Jewish people.
Please review this outspoken op-ed and pass it along to your friends and correspondents using the "Forward to a Friend" button at the bottom of the article. We must continue to ensure that our fellow Americans---and especially our President---understand the depth of our support and the need for the Palestinians to step up if they really want peace.
Thanks for your continued support of FLAME and Israel!
Best Regards,
Jim Sinkinson
Director, FLAME
Obama Causing America's Stature in the Middle East to Deteriorate: Heavy-handed U.S. intervention has stalled the Arab-Israeli peace process
By Mortimer B. Zuckerman, US News & World Report, October 15, 2010
Why did the Palestinians terminate the Arab-Israeli peace talks? The justification cited was the Israeli refusal to extend the moratorium they had put on construction in the settlements. It is a phantom excuse, the product of President Obama's heavy-handed intervention.
It is never a good idea to expect parties in conflict to negotiate in the glare of publicity. Attitudes are struck to appease partisans, and they impact negatively on the "private" talks. Why Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pulled out is itself a piece of grandstanding that does not serve the Palestinians, since in Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu they have a leader who can deliver. Netanyahu has a strong parliamentary coalition and a high degree of public support. He has already made a public commitment to an independent Palestinian state, and he is the first Israeli prime minister to commit to a moratorium on all settlement construction.
Both the Israelis and Palestinians have negotiated for almost 20 years without settlement construction becoming a fundamental impediment. A peace agreement was achieved with Egypt without prohibiting settlements. The Palestinians signed the Oslo accords without a moratorium on settlements and even acknowledged that Israel would be building on the West Bank, not to mention that the Israelis evacuated all the settlements in Gaza. To this day, all of the Israeli construction put together doesn't even cover 2 percent of the West Bank. And this doesn't take into account that Netanyahu was clearly prepared to consider maintaining, at least informally, a partial moratorium in the form of limiting building solely to agreed-on blocks that would be retained by Israel in any final peace agreement. This was hardly the first time Israel responded to American calls for a moratorium in the hope of enticing Palestinians to agree to talks. President Carter induced then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to agree to a three-month settlement freeze during the Camp David negotiations. It made no difference to the Palestinians; they just kept on refusing to negotiate.
So why should the settlements have become the one issue to kill the talks? The key reason is that from the very beginning of his presidency, Obama put the construction in the settlements at the center of his Middle East strategy. It was the original sin that has hamstrung the possibility of successful talks. Public advocacy of the freeze not only put Israel in a bind, but it also put the Palestinians in an even tighter bind, giving both little room to maneuver. When Obama spoke repeatedly for a construction freeze in the West Bank as a public condition for the renewal of talks, it turned the settlement freeze from a dignified wish into a threshold demand that needed to be met in full. It also set a bar that made it impossible for the Palestinians to compromise. Abbas cannot be less Palestinian than the U.S. president.
This wasn't the only American miscalculation. Having gotten Israel to agree to a 10-month moratorium, why did the United States tolerate Abbas's spending the first nine months equivocating? Then the president publicly demanded an extension ahead of the 10 months, thereby rewarding the Palestinian Liberation Organization for its delay.
The effect of all this was to put the Israeli prime minister into a box, limiting his choices to a humiliating capitulation or direct confrontation with the United States. If he had continued the freeze without any Palestinian reciprocity, he would have been seen as betraying the settlers and his previous commitment, too. His pledge to limit the moratorium to 10 months would have proved worthless. He would have destroyed the last vestiges of the trust he needed, and still enjoys, with the pro-settlement wing of his party. In Middle East culture, it is critical to stick to one's word and not be seen as buckling under pressure. For Netanyahu to do otherwise, while the Palestinians were not required to do anything to advance the peace process, is not a workable arrangement in an arena where unilateral concessions are seen as a weakness rather than a constructive contribution.
This was especially sensitive since the Palestinians initially asserted the moratorium was not significant. Indeed, it was part of their rationale for not entering direct talks and then wasting nine of the moratorium's 10 months. Now something that was originally deemed insignificant is suddenly indispensable.
In other words, the crisis over the moratorium was Obama's creation. As it is said in the Middle East, both parties were put up in a high tree and left without a ladder to get down. Paradoxically, the whole issue of the settlements is of secondary importance, because it would have been resolved by definition once the parties agreed to boundaries. Settlement construction on the Israeli side of the line would then be permitted, and the other side of the line would be turned over to the Palestinians.
Even the notion of a two-month extension of the moratorium made little sense. Why not a longer extension? Nothing much could have happened in two months except for the fact that it would have carried over past the U.S. congressional elections. Even worse, extending it by two months would have given the Palestinians the power to blackmail Israel indefinitely, as they would have the opportunity to renew their threat to cease negotiations at the end of the two-month period.
The net result was to pressure Netanyahu into an unnecessary concession that he is unable to make politically. Furthermore, the American obsession with the settlement freeze also cornered Abbas. The United States was urging him to go back to the table while making it impossible for him to get there. Even worse, it raised the question among Israelis of whether Abbas was inflating the issue of settlement construction as a way of skirting the need to make the tough decisions in a serious negotiation. Or perhaps his hope was to provoke a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations, as well as to get the world to blame Israel for the failure to commence a serious dialogue.
Obama's public focus on the freeze has also frozen his own capacity to be a peacemaker. The Arab leaders view the freeze as a test of the effectiveness of the Obama administration. They now think that if Obama can't enforce the freeze on Israel, he'll be unable or unwilling to force his opinions on the Israelis during the ongoing negotiations. The Israelis also view the freeze as a test of their credibility, for it will dramatically reduce their ability to say no. In turn, this might induce the Palestinians to become even more hard line, tempting the United States to press the Israelis again and again. At risk, then, would be the political support Netanyahu needs to deliver; remember, this is a democracy not a dictatorship. No wonder the Israelis feel they are being punished for the misjudgments of the Obama administration, which failed to distinguish between the crucial and the marginal issues.
What should Obama have done? He should have told the parties it was up to them to work out these differences. The result of meddling is that almost the entire Middle East leadership looks upon American diplomacy as amateurish. What has come out of this administration is an unending number of speeches and press conferences that have placed the Israeli-Palestinian issue under the media spotlight. Progress requires truly private negotiations—far from the cameras, spotlights, microphones, and press conferences. The historic breakthroughs have been achieved through private channels and private diplomacy: consider how Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger achieved the opening to China. The landmark Oslo accords were achieved through private talks and in complete secrecy and should serve as a model for all Middle East negotiations.
It is not surprising that America's stature in the Middle East continues to deteriorate. Iran is advancing toward nuclear capabilities and scorning Obama as it destabilizes the region. Meanwhile, a Shiite prime minister has been elected in Iraq with the help of Iran's ally Syria and may very well open Iraq to greater influence from Iran, especially in the Shiite south. Indeed, the Shiite Sunni conflict is becoming ever more extreme. Turkey has become more radicalized and seems to have joined the Iranian-Syrian axis. Hezbollah now threatens to destabilize the government in Lebanon and, along with Hamas, has gained significant political and military strength from their alliance with an expansionist Iran. America is sinking deeper and deeper into the Afghanistan quagmire of an unwinnable war. Worst of all, the United States has not succeeded, nor even truly tried, to build an effective strategic alliance of moderate Arab states.
There is still a little time for this administration to bring fresh thinking to its team managing the Middle East peace process. Otherwise, the period will be marked down as four more years of failure.
Hamas Preacher Sheikh Ismail Aal Radhwan: Those Who Negotiate With Israel Will Be Gathered in the Hellfire, Along With the Apes and Pig
Following are excerpts from a Hamas Friday sermon delivered by Sheikh Ismail Aal Radhwan in Gaza, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on September 3, 2010:
To view this clip, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2631.htm.
Ismail Aal Radhwan: "We are here today to salute the mujahideen who rocked the very pillars of the occupation, and retaliated for the crimes of the occupation, in the West Bank – in Hebron and Ramallah. Indeed, we salute and honor those modest hands that proved to all the conspirators, as well as the occupation and its helpers, that they are capable of regaining their vitality. Yes, we salute the mujahideen, who killed the Zionists, who killed the settlers.
[...]
"The path to the liberation of Jerusalem and Palestine is through the gun, through Jihad, and through resistance. We say today that we adhere to the option of Jihad and resistance, the option that is ridiculed by Abbas, Fayyad, and conspirators. The path that they mock is the path decreed by Allah: 'Fighting is ordained for you, though it is hateful to you.'
[...]
"The Prophet Muhammad said: 'There will be a hijra after the hijra, so the best on earth are those who keep to the land of the hijra of Ibrahim. Only evil people will remain in the land.' Who are the evil people? Those who negotiate, those who hasten to normalize [relations with Israel], and those who waive [the Palestinian rights]. 'No one will remain but the evil, and the land will spew them out.' That is what is happening today.
"The land will spew them out, the spirit of Allah will sully them, and the Hellfire will gather them, along with the apes and pigs – with the Jews, the Zionists, whom Allah transformed into apes and pigs. They will be gathered in the Hellfire along with those who were loyal to them and stood by them, and who abandoned the cause of the Islamic nation and of Palestine.
"The Prophet Muhammad asked: 'Haven’t I told you about who has the highest standing on Judgment Day?' The people said: 'You have told us.' The Prophet Muhammad said: 'The one with the highest standing on Judgment Day is the man who set out, his horse's reins in his hands, for the sake of Allah. That is the mujahid, the martyrdom seeker, the one who wages resistance.'" […]
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Yassir Arafat Dying of AIDS
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Buddhist Solar Trinity
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the Marriage of Philology and Mercury
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The True Sexist Palestinian
Kill Jesus
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A. Hitler's Historical Jesus under the radiant sun
St. Paul's Golden "Calf"
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Behind the Holocaust
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The Warsaw Ghetto Children
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Perfect Together
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the Muslim Brotherhood Flag
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They say, Islam will conquer the world
Hamas Jugend
Fatah 11
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The Al-Qaeda SS
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Russian President to visit Israel in 2011
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Jerusalem The Old City
Tea Party
Swastika Koran
Gorbachev: Victory in Afghanistan is impossible
Deauville Summit Supports the Talks
Statue of Confucius, Father of Chinese geocentrism goes up in Russia
Shimon Peres meets guests from China
the Ice Crystals of Auschwitz
Death Fugue
Anna Chapman, a Russian Spy receiving Top Honor
Al Turki in Bejing
The Spider Net
JFK and W. von Braun, SS Major
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Tea Party on the Horizon
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Burka
Martyrs Brigaes in action
German Award for the Muhammad Cartoonist
Abbas resembling Einstein
Bushehr nuclear power plant
Iran Inaugurates its first bombing drone
Russian 1800 Engraving dpicting the Whore of babylon, Riding the seven-headed monster
William Blake, The Whore of Babylon
Siege and destruction of Jerusalem
J. Pollard on Jerusalem Wall
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