Kerry's Mysterious Motivations

For the third time, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returned to the region, announcing his intention to make multiple visits every few weeks for what was described as the continuation of negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis. As President Barack Obama did on his recent visit, he stressed that he does not have a peace plan or road map for continuing negotiations but is seeking to build trust between Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu, thus promoting corrupt practices because the Palestinian people and the peoples of the region are tired of this game that Washington plays.

The U.S. president and his secretary of state serve the role of preacher and evangelist when addressing the Palestinians and Arabs. But when talking to Israelis and the Zionist lobby, their words differ and become as clear and politically decisive as a sword, reflecting the commitment to defend all of what Israel is doing in Jerusalem without correcting these contradictions in their loyalties, such as Israel’s denial of the Palestinian state, the right to return and its violations of international laws and resolutions.

From the days of Sadat to today, all that the U.S. has done on behalf of the Palestinian issue is for the sake of Israel and its arrogance and occupation. If we focus on Obama’s recent tour, its one measurable accomplishment pertains to the restoration of relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv. Kerry wants to facilitate Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to help Turkey, which raises suspicions about his motivations, though experience teaches us that this is only the first step.

The story of restarting negotiations has become a pretext to cover up what is being prepared in secret. How will one bridge the relationship between Abbas and Netanyahu if the latter will not budge one inch on settlement projects in the West Bank and Jerusalem and his other notorious positions? If he will not do it with Barak at his side, why would he with four ministers of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank?

God only knows. Don’t those experienced in the ins and outs of Kerry’s trips to move the ball forward believe that the U.S.-Israeli military intervention is not just limited to Syria but will eventually spread to seizing the weapons of mass destruction that Assad has not used on his own people at his eminent fall? Or that they intend to respond to Netanyahu’s fervent desire to strike Iran’s nuclear reactor to support the enshrined U.S. leadership in addition to Ben Gurion, Rabin and other war arsonists?

God only knows. And God forbid because U.S. policies are certainly aligned with Zionist policy in this conflict. One hopes that the Palestinian leadership is committed to its own terms for the resumption of negotiations, that they derive patience, steadfastness, firmness and resistance from the Palestinian prisoners and that they refuse to provide one millimeter of concessions — not for the sake of Kerry, Turkey or foreign aid, especially since the Palestinian cause is used to cover plots and new wars on the people of the region.