Seemingly convinced of a solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Barack Obama welcomes Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington today. The Israeli PM has been so reluctant to hear the possibility of a solution that he has avoided to advance the subject publicly in spite of great pressures to do so.
Likely counting on the role of the Jewish lobby in the USA, the Israeli prime minister has firmly decided on not ceding to the Obama administration’s proposition to settle the Arab-Israeli conflict definitively through the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state. According to close collaborators, Benjamin Netanyahu will refuse any such proposition.
Ophir Akunis, a deputy from the right-wing Likud party, declared on public radio that the Israeli leader “will not make a commitment to Washington on the creation of a Palestinian state, which would undoubtedly become a ‘Hamastan’,” referencing the Palestinian Islamist movement that controls the Gaza strip and advocates the armed fight against Israel. Another of Likud’s higher-ups, Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz, also rejected the option of Palestinian sovereignty, affirming that “Netanyahu will oppose any creation of an armed Palestinian state on Israel’s borders, which would endanger Israel’s security.” Instead, Netanyahu will propose in Washington the “setting up of a joint Israeli-Palestinian commission with a view towards a peace initiative in the Middle East”, said Katz. It has yet to be seen what Obama’s position will be, as he seems determined to impose the two-state solution in order to end the 61-year-old conflict. Will he be able to force the Israeli prime minister’s hand, who has refused to discuss the idea openly since the beginning of his term? Or will Obama yield to the pressure of the Jewish lobby, well aware of their influence on the White House where the interests of Israel are concerned? This is surely Netanyahu’s main asset when facing Obama, who will already have to do a great deal of persuasion to get the Israeli leader on his side. Despite the discord, Israeli leaders have been downplaying the divergences between the American president and the Israeli head of state; the opposition, however, lacks such optimism and the Israeli media is warning against the risk – not yet imminent – of a crisis of confidence against the backdrop of disaccord on Iran and the Middle East. Haim Ramon of the centrist party Kadima has warned against the risk of a potential political crisis between Israel and the United States and Europe if Netanyahu continues to refuse a solution to the conflict based on two states.
The opposition between the Netanyahu government and the Obama administration similarly beleaguers the Israeli press, as evidenced in today’s issue of the major daily newspaper “Yediot Aharonot:” “the honeymoon that lasted for dozens of years has apparently come to an end” as “one needs to be deaf, foolish and also blind in order not to see the barrage of messages conveyed by Washington.” The alarm sounds also from the daily “Maariv,” which estimates that “no head of state has arrived in Washington to such a sober atmosphere since Yitzhak Shamir,” a reference to the tense relations between DC and the right-wing Israeli leadership in the early 1990s.
Every American President puts on the beenie and runs as fast as they can to sucks up to AIPAC. Its amazing that the country, America, gives these scum-bag zionists billions of dollars, fights their wars, and these zionists scum-bags piss down the back of America and tells us it’s raining. Israel is the cancer on America.